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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:37 pm
September 1, 2006
Activity: Circus! - - - - - - - - - - - pinkdog When she had been told they were going to the Circus, Tamary had no idea what that meant. She thought perhaps it was some type of plant or garden, since that was the direction her mind usual went when imagining someplace pleasant. Thus, she was more than surprised when, after walking inside one of the huge tents, instead of plants, she found animals! Lots of animals. "Where's the flowers?" She murmured.
Pink chuckled, looking around in the tent. "No flowers here, luv. Let's go see the lions, hmm?" Pulling her along gently by the arm, Pink manuevered around the people to stand in front of the lion cage. His own senses were overwhelmed with the scent of so many animals, people, and non-people about. He was going to have a hard time keeping track of Tamary. "Stay close, okay?"
Tamary did not reply, her head still moving about as she tried to take in everything in the tent. It wasn't just the animals that held her attention, but the people! She had never seen so many people! And there were others her age there, she could see, though none of them really looked like her.
Finally dragging her gaze to the cage in front of her, Tamary stepped back, startled. "Big," She stated firmly, staring up at the big cat with amber eyes. Silencer Wolf Rexier Gaver marvelled at the variety of animals kept by the circus, noting appreciatively that all of them were well taken care of, seeing no signs of mistreatment or whatsoever. The boy crouched down in front of various cages to get a better look at the animals within, being careful not to get too close or stick any fingers in. It would not be a nice thing to go home with a missing finger or limb.
Soon, however, Rex found himself losing interest in the big cats and he started wondering, smiling down at some keepers and their non-carnivorous animal charges. The boy was just about to exit the tent, when King noticed something that had slipped through his notice.
"Rrawrh!!" pinkdog
Tamary did not particularly like the big cat. It looked very unhappy, sort of sad, staring back at her with blank eyes. It wasn't really scary at all, locked away behind those thick metal bars. It bothered the toddler, though she couldn't say precisely why.
Disturbed, and wanting to find creatures that looked more like herself -she could already hear the birds calling!- Tamary turned in another, random direction. Just as she did so, she heard the telltale call of the tyrannosaurus.
Containing a shrill so that Pink wouldn't notice her slip by him, Zuleika moved through the crowd toward the twins, the feathers on her head rising cheerfully.
Looking at King first, she gave a low shrill followed by a short higher one. "King food," she joked, looking down at the cages with some of the smaller, rodent sized animals. Easily digestable.
She turned her gaze on Rex, a slightly shyer look, "Hello, Rex."Silencer Wolf "Mm?" Rex stopped in his tracks, then smiled as a familiar little figure snakes her way through the crowd towards him. Or more precisely, King. The boy went down on a knee, so that their height difference need not be that much.
King replied with a low shrill of his own, nodding aprreciatively at Zuleika. He had thought of having them as a meal, but was sadly told they were not for his own consumption. The tyrannosaur looked at the rodents longingly for a short while, before reaching down(with the aid of his brother) for a lick at the crocodile mishap as a greeting.
"'Ey Tam." Rex smiled at her, then straightened up and offered a hand to her. "Wanna see the animals together?" pinkdog Tamary smiled, closing the eye of the side of her face was was being licked, and patted King's head as she did so.
As Rex stood up, Tamary had to look up quiet a bit to see him properly. She smilled, giving a quiet shrill of pleasure as she readily took the boys hand. "Yess, see 'nmals with Rex and King." At the prospect of looking around the tent some more, she remembered what she had been about to do before hearing King call her.
She looked up at Rex eagerly, "Any birdz'er'?" She sent a meaningful smile at King, "Or 'rillians?" Silencer Wolf "Well, if you really want to know..." Rex trailed off. The boy bent down and wrapped an arm around the toddler, with the slipped the other under her to support her, knowing well enough that no one, not even pet dragons and bone-creatures liked being picked up without an arm underneath them for support.
Once Rex had Tamary firmly in his arms, the boy whispered a "Hang on", then straightened up, effectively towering over eveyone else in the tent. He hoped she wasn't afraid of heights...
"See any, Tam?" the boy asked, waving his tail back and forth behind him. pinkdog Tamary didn't mind being picked up all, since Pink did so all the time. She was used to being high up in the air with Pink since he was 6 feet tall, but she was still surprised to see how much higher they were above everyone else. "Rex is biig," she murmured softly, looking around.
She did has she was told, holding on around his neck. This effectively put her in the position of looking over Rex's shoulder and right at King's face. She liked how she could see evenly right into his big yellow eye. She giggled quietly with a low shrill, "Now I'm big as King."
Rex caught her attention again as he spoke, and she remembered why she was being held up in the first place. Looking around, she searched for signs of birds or "'rillians'". She spotted a cage of Macaws on the other side of the tent. They were huge! "Birds there!" She pointed.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:17 am
Silencer Wolf Rex merely smiled at Tamary's comment on his height, and followed her gaze, scanning the tent for signs of birds and 'rilians'. While he did so, King rumbled joyfully as the feathered crocodilian child just popped into view suddenly. The tyrannosaur let out a soft 'churr' and rubbed his cheek against the toddler affectionately, before his gaze slid off to the crowd and animals before him. Hmm, if only he were allowed free reign for just a while...
Soon, King was lost in his own thoughts of food, food and more glorious food - the only other thing he liked as much as Zuleika right now. Or even more.
"Birds? Where?" Rex looked around, and shifted his gaze in the direction Zuleika was pointing at. "Ah. Well then, let's go!" Rex shifted tamary in his arms a little, then made a beeline through the crowd to the other side of the crowded tent. "Excuse me.."
"Oh, hi Ike!"
"Sorry!"
"Hey Osso!" Wave.
Once they were through, Rex paused to take a breath. The boy then lowered himself onto a knee, so that both could have a better look at the colorful avians. "Mmm, beautiful birds, aren't they?" pinkdog As Rex carried her through the crowd above everyone else, Tamary felt a bit more like the bird she partly was. Would she ever be so big?
Turning around in Rex's arms, Tamary studied the birds in the cage, her curiosity apparent by the half-raised feathery cone, wavering between rising and falling as she decided if she like them. "I like ze-" the last word came out as a mix between a word and shrill word "colorness." They were indeed, quiet brightly colored, a few a them shaded in warm red colors, the rest in blue and greens.
"So loud, tho. No one to talk to?" She turned the question to Rex, her right pinky finger making it's way into her mouth to chew on; she'd left her toys in the room.
Silencer Wolf A striped hand reached out just as the pinky made its way into Tam's mouth, prying the latter gently away from the razor filled crocodilian muzzle.
"They do have themselves, but I don't think they have much to talk about between them," Rex said, waving a finger at a pair of scarlet macaws, laughing as two birds bobbed and moved their heads to the movement of his finger.
Tired of playing follow-the-finger, one of the macaws squawked and stretched out its wings, flapping them twice before side-stepping down its perch to get a better looked at the two strange creatures, wings held wide open for balance.
pinkdog The sight of the birds was very exciting to the little Mishap, who had decided she liked the birds. She gave them a sort of half-uncertain smile, raising her arms out in imitation of their wings. "Biiiird," she shrilled.
The birds, alternately extending their wings as they wabbled about on the branches, stared back at the bird. The green creature thing made a high pitch sound that was midly familar and yet completely unidentifiable.
From behind them, a figure was moving through the crowd, slowly at first, and then with an increase in pace as they found what they were looking for. "Tam!"
Pink called from a few yards away yet, his large size making him quite an obstacle to maneuver in the busy, bustling tent. Finally he made it to their size, looking at the two Mishaps and then at the birds as he took a breath. "Looking all over for you Tam, how'd you manage to get away?"
With the last few words, Pink's overprotective gaze rose to look at the tall Mishap next to him. He did look familiar and yet, Pink could not remember ever meeting such an old boy, at least by his height, among the Mishap crew he had bumped into. He saw immediately why Tamary had been drawn to him, keen as she was for anything that resembled her strange mix of species.
Tamary's liking for Rex, however, did not spare him from the momentary glance from Pink, who, at around 6 foot, would not have proven an undaunting father figure. Of course, Rex was only a kid and soon Pink stooped down on his haunches to have a look at Tam.
"Like the birds? They have pretty feathers like your own, eh?" Scooping her up off the ground, Pink settled her off on his hip, looking at Rex again. "Thanks for keeping an eye in here She'd no doubt crawl between the bar of the cages to get a closer look if she could."
Zuleika looked between Pink and Rex, but her gaze soon returned to the birds, shrilling to them to see if she could get them to reply.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:57 pm
January 1, 2007
Activity: Food shopping
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Since November it had been getting increasingly cold outside. At first, Tamary's trips to the outside garden were only a bit chilly and she was too interested in being among the plants to care too much. However, by mid-November, there was a increasing bite to the winter wind that the little reptile toddler could not tolerate.
As it grew colder and had moved into late November, Pink had noticed Tamary being particularly withdrawn in their outdoor walks. She no longer watched the plants sway in the wind or watched the sky for birds and butterflies. She seem to lose all interest in her normal hobbies until she was inside, neatly tucked inside her pink baby blanket, toasty warm. Pink realized very quickly that she did not like the cold.
Since then, their walks around the outside garden had come to a temperary halt. Instead, Pink took Tamary to the inside garden, where he had heard she had met up with Rex and King some time ago. The garden was very nice, the light stream in from the ceiling above, plants and grass growing as thought it were in the middle of spring. Still, Tamary seemed a little upset that she could no longer go outside.
Attempting to raise her spirit and so something a little different, Pink decided to take her out to go grocery shopping. It wasn't a particularly exciting event for most people but it would get Tamary out of the HQ.
"Tam, you want to go shopping with me? It'll be fun. I'll let you pick out some food you like, okay?"
Tamary was sitting on the floor of her room, which was the main room, playing her witih lion and stuffed hyena. In her small animal kingdom, it seemed that the hyena was now king of the jungle.
The crocodile tot looked up at Pink, her headfeathers rising and falling a little in curiosity. She wasn't really sure what food she liked, except for the crunchy green and orange food Pink was always giving her. What did he call them? Cellllry? Carrrot?
She nodded, dropping the hyena to clutch at her old lion plush.
Pink smiled and went over to the dresser to pick out some clothes for her to wear. The last thing he wanted was for her to get cold and be even more uncomfortable all over again. Thinking this, he chose a warm sweater and pair of cute pants with buttons on the bottom. All the cothes had been adjusted to fit her Crocadilian attributes.
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Once they had arrived at the local grocery store, Pink got a shopping cart and fit Tamary into the seat on the front, carefully slipping her legs through the holes. Soon they were weeling accross the tile toward the fruits and vegetables. It was not as though they needed anything in particular, as the HQ provided for all their needs, but he knew from previous experience that she loved to pick at food, particularly vegetables.
The place the Pink had brought her smelled very interesting. She thought maybe she recognized some of the smells but they were so mixed together from the entrance that she soon lost them. Moving farther into the building, Tam tried to turn around in her metal chair to see where they were going. The smells were getting stronger and yet softer at the same time. She saw some familiar stalks of green off to the side and pointed, giving an emphatic "There!"
The cart began moving in the direction of the stalks and Tamary could now see that there were lots of greens. There was small green stalks, skinny green stalks, short green stalks, round green balls that looks kind of like a flower. Tamary pointed at the green ball, "Rose," but rather than being met with praise, she heard a shoft laugh from the shifter.
"No, Tam, that it cabbage. I don't think you want any cabbage right now, hmm?" He paused, looking at the row of vegetables. She watched as he pointed at one pile, "Hey, Tam, how about this?"
Tamary followed his finger to the pile of green stalks that looked most familiar. "Cellll-ry." She remembered the crunch of the stalk under her sharp new teeth. She reached out her hand to grab the green but Pink gently pulled her arm back and did it himself. Tamary distracted herself by looking elsewhere. There were even more colors surrounding this area of the store.
Once they began moving again, Tamary could hardly keep herslelf from looking everywhere at once. Was all of this eatable? She couldn't remember seeing any place so colorful except for the garden. It kind of smelled like the garden too, though a little different somehow. How did they grow without any sunlgiht?
Pink was rolling the cart slowly so that Tamary could look around. "Go ahead, show me what you like, Tam." Tamary was not about to do anything short of that, her hand shooting out again to point at at area of fruit. Pink could not tell what she was pointing at exacltly so he just grabbed the strawberries and the grapes. "These?" He asked, holding them up.
Tamary looked from the bag to the box, having no clue what was in either. The bag was full of round green circles bunched together while the box had oddly shaped red things. She pointed at the green.
"Grapes? Okay, well..." Looking around quickly, Pink popped the bag open and took out a few grapes, wiping them off before giving them into Tamary's waiting hands.
Tamary held the grape for a momoment. It felt firm between her fingers, not slimy at all, like other fruit she had had. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. Popping it in her mouth, she bit down. Suddenly the wave a slimy gush washed over her tongue. She didn't quite make an unpleasant shrill, but she made a face, licking the skin off her teeth so as to be rid of the taste faster. Ick! It WAS slimy! "It lied." She stated, handing the other grape back to Pink with a look of disdain.
Pink chuckled and took the grape, dropping it back in the bag and setting it back on the shelf. He held the box up to Tam questionably. He didn't particularly want to take out one of the strawberries if she was just going to want to spit it out. "Want to try this?"
"Slimy?" It didn't look slimy, but after the grape, she wasn't taking any chances. She knew now. Fruit lied.
Pink chuckled, "Maybe a little," and set it back on the shelf.
As they were moving out the fruit and vegetable section, Pink saw Tamary looking over curiously at another stand. Following her gaze, he found bags of cherries sitting on the shelf. Wheeling over, he picked up a bag of the hard red cherries. "Try this?" He wasn't sure whether she would like them or not. They were certainly not vegetables but they were slimy either.
Tamary looked at the red bag. They had caught her attention because of the color but they looked interesting. "Okay." She just hoped it wasn't going to be slimy too. As Pink dropped one of the cherries stealthility into her hand, she felt it with he fingers. It felt even more firm than the grape had felt. Sticking it in her mouth, she chewed cautiously, waiting for the burst. However, while it was soft inside, it didn't taste as gushy and disgusting as the grape had. No, she rather liked it. Her head feathers rose as she reached out for another one.
Pink smiled, pleased they had found something else that she liked. "No, no more right now. You can eat them when we leave."
They rolled around the store some more but mostly Tam remained uninterested. Everything was in a package here and she couldn't see inside so she lost interest. After grabbing a box of Cherios for himself, Pink went to the front to pay. As they left, he handed the bag of pitted cherries to Tam, who sat contentedly, munching away on them.
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