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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:03 pm
He gave another miserable wimper, his boulbous eyes sliding past her strange, inhuman face and terrifying white eyes to the buzzing flies still swarming about her carcass stashes. "N-no..." He murmured weakly, "I... I sup-suppose n-n-nn-not... Th-they used to... to t-talk about.. D-doctor Delany and... and w-what happened to her b-but I n-never th-thought-" His stomach rumbled. He was still hungry, and the insects about them were looking even more tastey than befor.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:18 pm
Doctor Delaney? Was this another person that was thrown out to the other side of the fence? Kaveri had heard murmurings and rumors that the doctors had thrown out one of their own to the village, although she never met the poor soul herself.
"Are you hungry?" Kaveri asked, picking up the sharp growl coming from Newt's gut. "I'm afraid I don't have much here but stuff dat's already decaying. I can lead you back to de village if you like..."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:22 pm
Newt swallowed, the embarassment of his own diet back. Granted he was speaking to a woman who seemed to eat carryon, he figured he didn't have much to be embarassed about, but Maryke's reaction to him still held strong in the back of his mind. "I... ac... actually ah... I ... if y-you... w-wouldnt' m-mind I... m-my d-diet's ah... I m-mean... th-they're tech-technically your's b-but-" he floundered uselessly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:27 pm
"You... actually want de carrion?" Kaveri lifted what was left of a brow, not quite following. She got up and extended an arm to the pile, shifting her balance upon her walking stick again. "Uh, help yourself."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:32 pm
Newt would have flushed if he had still been able, instead his large eyes widened slightly, "Ah- n-not th-the... the c-carcasses! Th-the ah..." He crouched down, instinctively searching for wherever he had dropped his walking-stick-broom-handle, but realized with the change in his feet and legs he was able to hop a bit easier, or at least catch himself easier. He took a short hop towards the dead creature, watching the flies swarm over it's rotting flesh. His stomach was churning, but still the frog in him was screaming that the carcass was a good thing, attracting the bugs like it was. His tongue flew from his mouth, easily managing to stick several of the large fat flies befor snapping back into his mouth for him to chew. He looked embarassed, glancing up at her, "I.. sup-suppose... either of us... aren't s-so alone in... in the quh-questionable d-diets, huh?" He gave her a weak, trembling smile as he swallowed.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:37 pm
"Oh!" Kaveri clapped a wing to her forehead, laughing and shaking her head. "Oh, by all means, go ahead. I hate dem, so you're welcome to take as many as you want. Take all of de damn things for all I care, you're welcome to it!"
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:40 pm
"I... I d-don't th-think I could eat them all!" He laughed timidly, large eyes easily keeping track of the tiny swarming shapes. His improved eyesight made bug hunting far easier, that was for sure. "I... I c-could s-set up some b-bug traps f-for you... sp-spray p-puh-poison and the like-" While it was a very janitorial thing to do, the frog side of him was snarling at hwat a waste it would be.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:48 pm
Kaveri smiled. "Well, dat's a disappointment, den. Go ahead and eat as many as you like, eider way." She shook her head at the offer of pesticides, waving her hand in a gesture that implied that she didn't want it. "No, no, I'm against dat sort of thing and wouldn't want it sprayed anywhere near my food. But tank you for de offer-- I'd much prefer more organic ways to be rid of de flies."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:49 pm
The frog-man's gaze darted from the flies to the bones that hung from the trees and back to the vulture woman befor he finally grew the courage to speak, "Ah... are... are y-you a w-wuh-witch?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:55 pm
"A witch?" Kaveri couldn't help but to laugh good-heartedly, shaking her head again as she rubbed at her face. "Oh, no, no. I'm recycling. I guess you can call me an artist, some people may disagree, but I have to do someting wit all de bones from de animals I eat. I can't let dem go to waste, dat would be disrespectful."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:58 pm
Newt relaxed ever so slightly, nodding, "Th-that... th-that m-makes sence... s-so... y-you're a... a hippie, then?" He said it as though that were just another terrible and frightening thing. Recycling and enviornmentally friendly habits were far more enticing than voodoo.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:02 pm
Kaveri laughed again, hobbling over to sit down on her mattress on the ground. "I guess you could call me dat," she smiled, "I'm not old enough to be a real one, dough. You'd have to look at my parents."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:14 pm
"M-my f-father w-was an accountant," Newt smiled weakly, "I d-don't think I w-would have m-made a very good one, though." He snatched a few more flies, chewing meakly as he watched her. After he swallowed, he hopped closer to her matress, crouching nearby meakly, "Ah... b-by... by th-the way..." He offered a green, webbed hand, "I'm nuh... I'm nnnuh... I'm n-n-Newton."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:27 pm
"Dat's cool," Kaveri grinned, "My parents helped out at the local farm and stuff. So did I, and for a while I had a liddle garden here." Looking at his hand and then looking at hers, she extended a misshapen, spiny mockery of a wing and shook Newt's hand as best she could. "I'm Kaveri. It's nice to meet you, Newton."
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:30 pm
He tried his best to look polite about her strange appendage, swallowing thickly, "Kah.. kah-k-kuh-kavuh..." He shook his head as though that would loosen his tongue, "Kaveri. N-nice to... to m-meet you. I'm... I'm s-sorry I... I s-startled y-you... um... " He let go, huddling back to sit on the ground with his knees up to his shoulders and long flat frog feet splayed in front of him. "Y-you c-can... c-call me Nuh-newt for sh-short if you'd like... m-muh-most people do..."
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