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 Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:01 pm
Shammi looked first right, then left, weighing both options in her mind. Carefully, she pointed with her tail to the right. "Dis way."
"Shammi nevva thought she see you 'gain. Missed you lots and lots and lots." She paused. "And lots! What Ike do when gone?"
"Sorry." Erishi looked at her feet and stopped smiling. "Most of what everyone was used to with my behavior was caused by a malfunctioning program. It got deleted with a lot of other stuff. Some things I have trouble remembering."
Now that he was closer to her hight, Erishi leaned over and rested a hand on his head. "It's okay. You don't have to pretend for me either. I can listen if you wanna talk." Not that he did, but it was a good gesture, right?
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:06 pm
"Kay," Ike nodded and began to the right, and then turned the only avaliable corner to the left, "I didn't do much. Practice mostly. There was a circus thing I barely went to. Thassit. I missed you!"
Björn nodded, but flinched slightly under Erishi's touch and pulled away. He immediately began fixing his hair obsessively, using his fingers to comb it back into a ponytail.
"Not much to talk about. Just an old immortal eel-thing going through a lonely midlife crisis." He snorted.
"Age paradox."
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:34 pm
"Pak'tiss what?" She asked, keeping one eye on Ike while the other swept around and looked at their surroundings. It never hurt to keep a watch out. Expecially for birds. She flinched when one flew over and gave Ike's arm another squeeze. "Shammi no like." She grumbled, watching it fly past.
'Touching Björn' had been listed as a thing not to do in her mind from now on, since he didn't seem too fond of it. "I'm sorry." Was her automatic response. She thought a few more minutes. "You should go sleep with someone. That's why Pathos picked up me. I think that's what you're supposed to do in a mid-life crisis."
She sat cross-legged on the ground so she could look up at him. A smile came to her face, even though she didn't feel happy. "I remembered you. I didn't can't remember lots of other people, so I guess you must be important." Her smile was a bit more real on the last bit.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:58 pm
"My violin," Ike nodded, "Maybe I can play for you some t--don't worry, Shammi. I'll keep you safe from the birds." He smiled down to the girl and nodded. They reached another fork in the hedges.
"Which way now?"
Something inside Björn gave an unpleasant, tight twist. He grimaced, not much unlike his usual expression, and closed his eyes for a moment.
"Thanks for the advice, but I think I've got a handle on things," he said and cleared his throat, as his voice was surprisingly light, "And I'm glad I...may be important." He gave a weak half-smile, a very rare thing to see from him.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:22 pm
"Vio-Len? Len Len? Len biwd. Good one, tho. How you play Len? With Vio? What Vio?" Shammi hadn't seen Len in a long time. She missed her, too. "Ummm, Yeft. Okay?"
"Don't trust my advice. It's still unreliable. And dumb." She looked worried until he smiled. Aha. Victory. She smiled back, serching her mind for anything that might make him smile more. "Of course you're important. You're the only decent guy I've ever got along with. Most of the others... Well. Right. Hah." Well, that subject wouldn't make him laugh, that was for sure.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:25 pm
"Nonono...Len's my--okay, left," Ike nodded and started left, "Len's one'uh my best friends. I don't play her. I play an instrument called a violin...like v-i-o-l-i-n. It makes music."
He often forget that even he, at one time, had had absolutely no idea as to what a violin was.
Björn nodded, smile fading as such things usually did, and cocked an eyebrow.
"Do I have to smack-a-b***h? Or b*****d..s...as it were..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:38 pm
"Oh. Violin, not vio Len. Okay!" She perked up and nodded. "Music? Loud music? Like: Na na na na na!" She moved her free hand in the air and acted like she was beating it on a drum. "Music's good! Ike's good!" And Shammi looked up at him with adoring eyes. Ike was amazing!
"Um, no. Or, yes! If you want to, it's okay. I think most of them are dead. Soilders, and stuff. But I could find some of them if you wanted to hit something. It might make you feel better?" Erishi bit her lower lip and raised her eyebrows. ". . . Can I do anything to make you feel better? Anything at all?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:59 pm
Ike smiled down fondly at Shammi.
"No...more like...uh..." he paused for a moment, and then sang a few sweet notes, oddly indicitive of a violin's timbre.
"It's real pretty."
Björn sighed. He twitched. His brain fizzed.
"Gimmee a hug."
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:11 pm
Shammi watched him and smiled, twisting her head back and forth. "Ike pretty. Shammi wants to lis'en sometime. Maybe Shammi learn instwoo-mant. Then we music. Both! Uh huh!"
Erishi blinked once. "Okay." She stepped over to him and wrapped her arms around him as tight as she could.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:14 pm
I'm pretty? What?
"You can come over any time you want, Shammi. We don't do so much stuff any more. I'd be happy to play for you. You could learn to play too!"
Björn gave a defeated sigh and clung back, a single tear escaping. He wiped it away furiously, literally mad at it. He simply rested his head atop the oddly-sane Erishi's shoulder for a moment before pulling back.
"Thanks."
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:27 pm
"Okay! I come to see Ike!" She sounded elighted at this. "Leawn slow, though. Shammi not smat. But I twy, okay?"
Even if Erishi didn't see the tear, she felt him wipe something away. Hesitating once, she reached out and patted his arm. "Anytime, Björn. Anything I can do to help, you just ask. I'll do anything."
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:29 pm
"Oh, you're plenty smart!" Ike grinned and patted Shammi's hand, only to look up and find themselves in the centre of the maze, "Wow. You're good at mazes..."
Björn nodded and smiled.
Actually smiled.
A real smile.
"Thanks, Erishi, whether or not you remember any of this when your...ah...databank is back or whatever." He crossed his arms, feeling exquisitely foolish, and then went for his cigarettes and lit one up.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:46 pm
"Naw. Shammi.. cwazy. Ike bestest." Shami shook her head and waved her hand. "We good when both hewe. Uh huh!"
Shammi looked around, frowning. "Not know whewe go next. Ike help, okay?"
Erishi looked surprised at the smile, eyes wide. She blinked once or twice before blushing and rubbing the back of her head. "I'll make sure To remember this. It's important." She laughed slightly, pulling at her hair.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:52 pm
"Nah. Shammi's mum is crazy. Shammi has awesome hair, so Shammi can't be crazy," Ike said simply and peered about, "Well, we can try to get back out, or see if there's a way out the back."
Björn snerked, actually blushing slightly. He took a long drag and exhaled a plume of smoke.
"Or maybe it'd be best if you didn't. Yanno, I have a reputation to withhold." He smiled and shook his head.
He wasn't quite sure if this was a new personality development, or yet another brain-snap.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:01 pm
"Yes. Ewwi." She reached up and touched her hair, smiling. "Well, Ike have.. Aw-sawm tail. So thew." She stuck her touge out about four inches at him. "Keep goin'? We make it. Uh huh."
Yet another thing to add to her book of mental snapshots: Björn blushing. Even if it was a litle bit. "I don't think you'll be that lucky. I told you, you're important. I remember the important stuff." Gently she reached out to puch his arm. "Don't worry, you big teddy bear. I won't tell anyone."
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