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 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:42 pm
Lucien had seemed think on her question forever as he stared at her through his goggles. Oh yes, he had his goggles on still. Fidgeting, he moved his goggles from his face and back down to around his neck. Distraction aside, he looked back at Amrita from his clear blue eyes, without any interference. He did want an adventure, and into the Undead dormitory could be just the adventure he had been seeking.
He found himself nodding with a short "yes" and he walked towards the door, slipping inside and waiting for Amrita.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:07 pm
"Ummm...just so you know, it's cold...or so I'm told." Amrita watched him slip through the door - his feet in particular, recalling that he said he didn't really walk. Huh. Fun. Once he was inside she followed, grabbing the door again to pull it close. The place looked as creepy as it did form the outside, and with a bit of a waving gesture that suggested he should follow her, the girl wandered towards the staircase that lead to the basement.
Of course, she never trusted this thing. Going down the stairs with her feet just spelled disaster! Hooking the bag around her wrist again, she grabbed onto the railing tightly and moved down the stairs, so focused on not falling that she momentarily forgot that she even had company. Just one foot in front of the other, on a slightly sideways tilt.
It was a couple flights of stairs later that she stopped on a floor, and upon seeing movement behind her, jumped with a bit of a surprised cry. Her head snapped to the side and she stared up at...Lucien?
Oh, right, he did follow her down here, didn't he?
Making a nervous little 'aheh...' with her breath, she pretended she didn't get surprised by him and headed to her room. Upon finding it, she pulled open the door; the creaking plank gave way to a startled shriek from a little round creature with wings, that suddenly launched itself out the open door as if trying to escape something.
As always, the Mini-Golem launched itself through the door in the space above Amrita's head. It was rare for her to bring people over, so it never considered the possibility that someone taller might be standing behind her...
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:15 pm
Lucien followed Amrita to the stairs where he mentioned something about the temperature not bugging him because he was used to the temperature up in the sky, where it was surprisingly quite cold the higher you went up. He found himself staring at the stairs, looking directly at Amrita's feet. He couldn't imagine she was very stair friendly and could only imagine the school put her all the way at the bottom just for a laugh.
Of course, when they got down to her dorm room she almost seemed to have forgotten he was there, making a startled noise when she noticed him behind her. He didn't seem to notice, or didn't mention it as he stood behind her as she opened the door and...
"Ah!" The air elemental said, quite startled when something suddenly flew right into his face!
That was the last place he expected something to fly into him.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:31 pm
The Mini Golem wasn't the only one to think anything of it. In fact, Rita didn't think of it herself until she heard the golem hit the boil's face, and the subsequent cry of surprise from him.
"Ah!" She parroted out of surprise, catching the Demon Cat that barreled into her chest, purring and rubbing its head under her chin in content at its metaphorical feather ruffling of the golem. Cat's antics put aside, the Vetala turned to stare up at Golem, her brow narrowed.
"Golem!" She scolded, the creature clearly as startled and thrown off as Lucien was. It had bounced off the poor guy's face and went careening to the floor behind him, and was shakily flying again, clearly unstable in lazy flight patterns.
"Lucien! Are you okay?" Amrita's scolding expression dropped to absolute worry for her companion, staring wide eyed up at him.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:41 pm
Dazed, Lucien was staring at the golem for a good minute before he finally came out of shock of being hit in the face. Really, what was with everything hitting him in the head, face or general top part of his body? It happened a lot that Lucien was really staring to consider wearing a helmet and his goggles at all times... but then he wouldn't be able to feel the wind in his hair.
Finally focusing his attention back to normal, Lucien looked down at Amrita whose eye were looking up at him with great concern. He nodded to her, casually rubbing his face with one of his hands.
"I am okay, I'm getting used to it," he said, half-joking. "How is the... uh, what hit me?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:57 pm
"I'm sorry!" Amrita whined in dismay, not really catching the partial joke; it sounded to her like it happened all the time, because of her. She didn't mean to! "It's fine, probably." She said, looking into her room where the creature had awkwardly floated, collapsing eyeball first on her perfectly made bed.
"That's Mini Golem." The Vetala explained, then shifted the purring and pleased feline in her arms so Lucien could see. "And Demon Cat." Thereby proving that she had little to no creativity when it came to names. She always meant to rename them, but for some reason never got around to it...
"Umm...m-make yourself comfortable?" The Vetala said belatedly, gesturing into her room. There were tree roots breaking through the stone walls, the patterened orange-yellow sheets on the probably unused bed; in contrast there was a well used desk with the lamp still on (oops). Her various school supplies doing their own thing - the penstrictor and staplegator apparently made amends and were both basking under the lamp, the scisbird was still sitting on the tank on the floor, preening itself while her doomfish swam in lazy circles. All in all, her room was pretty boring, mostly empty; but she didn't have many things just yet.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:04 pm
"It's okay," he said as he looked to see Amrita rotate so that her demon cat was in easy sight. It didn't really occur to him that she had named the pets after what they were and all he said was, "Nice to meet you Demon Cat." There was no greeting for Mini Golem in the room, not even when Lucien walked into the room with Amrita.
The first thing he noticed, other than the Mini Golem, was how much stuff was in her room. He was half in awe and found himself finding a comfy spot floating mid-air in the middle of the room. Strange spot, but she had told him to make himself comfortable.
"Your room has a lot of stuff, it's much nicer than mine," he said, looking around some more, "I don't have a bed."
It was true, he didn't have a bed. It isn't like he'd sleep on it if he did, but he didn't have one.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:55 am
"...Really?" Amrita seemed...VERY surprised by his comment. Her room...had a lot of stuff in it?! Blinking, she looked around; it didn't seem like much at all. Not at all. "Where do you sleep, then?" She asked him curiously, looking up at him in surprise. Not that she was one to BE surprised; she slept laying on the floor sometimes, or at her desk. Or, when she felt homesick, she sat against the wall and held onto some of the tree roots.
But still. No bed?
Demon Cat just stared up at Lucien, still purring in content against Amrita's chest. But when the stranger started to float in the middle of the room, it's ears perked. Floaty thing was up high! It liked high places; Amrita was not very tall at all. It struggled, and when the Vetala released it the creature flew towards Lucien. It was a lazy sort of fly, the kind that suggested he wanted to land on the boy and curl up. Cats always did take funny nap spots.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:07 am
The air elemental nodded. He never thought he needed a bed, and they would never end up being as soft as a cloud or even the air so he seen no point is having it waste space in his room. Then again, that was his thought about a lot of things in his room considering he didn't have any furniture on his flood layout. Just a lot of pets that he had collected lazing about, taking up space. He didn't mind them taking up the floor at all though, he really had little use for it. Minus the small amusement he had from jumping around the room sometimes in which the pets just became obstacles to move around.
"I sleep in the air," he said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
Lucien noticed the cat fly towards him and eagerly try and kneed up against him. He made a small "c'mere" noise and soon he found himself petting the demon cat until it landed in his lap, kneeding it until it curled up in a ball with its wings curled around itself. Pet pet, pet pet. Lucien liked to pet animals and especially was enjoying the soft fur the cat had.
"I like animals," he said, a goofy soft smile displayed on his face as he looked down at Demon Cat.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:22 am
"Wooooow." Amrita gasped out, staring up at him like he was the coolest thing ever. Which...he kind of was. She still couldn't get over the whole floating thing. That was awesome! Even when she wasn't in a corpse she was pretty sheltered against other creatures, so the thought of others floating was just...so cool. But, sadly, she was grounded for an indefinite amount of time. "What if you fall?" She asked curiously, still just staring at him.
Demon Cat was more than happy to head over, curling up and purring loudly under the pets he was getting. Like Pet, Like Owner; headpets seemed to be the best. The winged feline was more than content in a tight ball on the boil's lap.
"Animals like you." The little Vetala commented, looking around before sitting on the bed, moving as though she'd never done it before, or as if it was going to sink heavily in the middle. It didn't of course, but the awkward sitting down suggested it had once. "So, uhm, I...I've never had company before..." She admitted sheepishly.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:15 am
Lucien tightened his shoulders at the mention of falling. There he floated still for a moment, slowly moving his hands again so that they ran over the fur of Demon Cat. No, if he fell he'd just catch himself. He knew how to fly... He loosened his shoulders again, slowly, before petting Demon Cat normally and looking at Amrita.
Mind over matter. "I won't fall, don't worry."
Of course, he was pleased to hear that animals liked him. He hadn't realized this before.
"I'm glad to be your first then," he said, a hint of a grin showing on his lips.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:36 am
Demon Cat was not pleased when Lucien stopped petting it. It didn't move of course, at least not yet; but it did open it's eyes and glare at the air in front of it. Luckily the expression was hidden by a wing, and when the floating boy returned to petting it, it went back to closing it's eyes while purring.
"Oh! That's good, then! Falling hurts sometimes, I wouldn't recommend it." Amrita nodded, completely forgetting that he had fallen against a shelf earlier in their adventures. The smaller girl gave him an odd look at his comment and that tiny grin of his; she didn't get it, but it seemed a weird comment to grin about.
Everyone had firsts, right? Like...the first time she possessed a body, or the first friend she made, or the first time someone pet her hair. Having company in her room was just another first...but odd way to react to it.
"Uhh...Thanks?" She said awkwardly, not really knowing what to say to that. "But, um, what should we do now?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:03 am
"Falling can hurt," he repeated. He took her recommendation and smiled with a hint of a laugh, the memory of her watching him fall into the shelf flashing in his head, "I'll try not to do it."
He really didn't mind just sitting here, well, floating here. He was cozy, had a cat to purr in his lap and a companion to keep him company. He didn't really want to strain the poor ghoul anymore, considering her feet must be absolutely sore on a normal biases not including the walking she had done today! He felt a little blessed he didn't have to walk at all, and his feet never got dirty!
He looked around her room, "We could play a game," he suggested.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:11 am
"Good." Amrita sighed. She didn't quite remember his fall anymore (but she would eventually), so until then it was just some pretty good knowledge to pass onto someone she thought was a friend. Maybe. She seemed to recall a lot of brain breaking, and if she was judging what a friend was based on Tahki, he was far from it; but who knew!
"Game?" She parroted, looking curious. It was obvious she didn't have any board games in her room, or any other game. ...Come to think of it, she didn't even know many games! Except for maybe hide and seek, or Musical Corpse. But other than that? Nothing came to mind. "Okay! But..." She paused, going back to playing with her hair.
"...What game? You'll...probably have to teach me one..." Amrita admitted, in that same sheepish tone she had used earlier.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:26 am
A game? He didn't expect to actually have to think of a game for them to play when he suggested it! He scratched his head with one hand and used his other hand to scratch Demon Cat's head casually. He made that 'Hm' noise he made sometimes, looking around the room. Nothing. 'Hm'... He needed a game. Any game. He put a few words together and then he got his idea.
"How about twenty questions?" He threw out there, hoping it would catch.
His other idea wasn't very good either... twister.
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