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 Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 2:05 pm
 Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Hustling to a quick stop, Danny looked up at Alexander, her eyes following down his front until they landed on the tiny toad in his hands. "Well, I've never held a toad before," she admitted, shyly holding her hands out, cupped together. "Here, heh... I'll try." She was fairly certain that it really didn't take skill to hold a toad, but she knew it took effort if it was a jumpy one. It had been acting calmer than before now that it had been in Alexander's hands, so she hoped it would stay that way. She let Alexander slip the toad into her hands, and she looked down at it curiously as Alexander moved on.
She then looked up to gaze around the pond, and something registered in her mind. "Alexander. Is this the same pond... as before?" she asked hesitantly, her heart beat picking up a little bit. A few glimpses of that hot day came back for a moment before she looked back Alexander.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- c: ]
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:58 pm
  ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander looked at her, then back around at the pond. The same one as before? The one they spoke through? No, that was in her yard... "I don't...think so." He said, not entirely sure what she was referring to. But he seriously doubted anything bad could have happened in this particular pond, and he didn't really want to ask in case he may embarrass her in some way in doing so. Still..."Is there something making you uncomfortable in being here, Danny?" He asked.
((*bounces around wagging tail* OMGOMGOMGHI!!))╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:31 am
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Danny looked down at the toad in her hands as she responded. "I'm not sure, maybe it's just my imagination." She looked around again, not completely sure if this was the same body of water as before, but she wasn't about to take any chances. "It's probably nothing." she said more to herself than to anybody else. She took a few steps closer to Alexander, still keeping her distance from the water's edge. "What are you looking for?" she asked, seeing him gaze around again.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- HIHIHIHI. C: Still posting no matter what! ]
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 4:15 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander smiled after a moment. "I'm not actually sure, I suppose?" He said, supposing they'd just had an odd moment. He waved his hand dismissively. "I believe we simply had a misunderstanding." He explained and turned towards the water. He sat on the bank then, not paying much mind to the dirt and grass that may have stained them. This was a natural pond, so of course there was no kind of dock or even a walkway around it aside from narrow trails where animals had come to drink. All the same, Alexander got as close to the waters edge as he could without sitting in mud. Once he was positioned where he wanted to be, he pulled the reeds and weaved them rather swiftly into a kind of mat for Danny to sit upon if she so wished.
With that, he took out a flute made of water reeds and somewhat crude, and began to play. The melody was simple but pretty and seemed to resonate around the little area. After a little while, he stopped and listened. All was still. With that, he raised the flute again and began to play once more, this time a little more complicatedly. He did this a few times until finally, with an intricate and haunting tune, some whispers came to his ear and he paused, looking towards the water. There was a ripple radiating from the middle, but not much else. Alexander played a little more, watching.
After a moment or two, more ripples emerged until finally something broke the surface, though only for an instant. With that, Alexander winked at Danny and stood, holding the flute out over the water. "Hello! We don't mean to intrude, though at least one of your company should recognize this as I received it as a gift from her. The youngest, I believe?" he called. The pond was still, until a face showed right beneath the surface of the water directly under the flute. It was both humanoid and amphibian, though not unpleasant. Actually, it was strangely beautiful. Alexander crouched with a smile. "Hello."
The face sank a little, though she was obviously curious. This wasn't the littlest one from before. As a matter of fact, if he had to guess, he'd say she was the oldest. She mouthed something and Alexander put a hand to his ear. "I'm sorry? I'm afraid we aren't like you, we can't hear what you're saying." He said. After a moment, the face and head broke the surface of the water. "When did you get that?" She asked. Her tone was soft and her voice was quiet. "Oh, not too long ago. There was a Naiad in your lake, if you recall?" He said. With that, her eyes widened and she disappeared. Alexander looked towards Danny, until there was an explosion from the water and a huge clamoring of voices as all the sisters came surging excitedly out of the water.
((OHHHHHHHHHHHMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD HOW DID I NOT KNOW YOU REPLIED!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?! I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:26 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ With all the odd little things she'd seen Alexander do and hear him say, Danielle had never quite found herself questioning what he was doing seriously. Of course, she had already gone to somewhat strenuous lengths to figure out most of what had been happening around her for most of the time she had known him. It never made her uncomfortable, if anything, it may have given her the jitters. In turn, those jitters would turn into butterflies, and she never knew why.
As she watched Alexander place himself in front of the lake, her heart steadied, and the frog seemed to make itself comfortable in her hands. She took a weary step forward as she gazed at the woven mat in front of her, the wooden pipe in Alexander's hands, and she found herself mystified by the melodic tune that followed. She suddenly broke from her simple daze to look down at the frog in her hands. It fidgeted once or twice, and her lips curled up in a small smile as she lowered herself onto her new mat, placing the frog, still in her hands, onto her now crossed legs.
Her eyes shifted to Alexander, and she decided it better to not interrupt his music. But when he stopped, her amber orbs twitched to his figure. He then turned to her and winked, she reddened, and he brought his attention back to the pond. He then spoke, and she remained quiet. Her pulse picked up some speed, and as she became more curious, and a little nervous, her little frog friend seemed to sense her tension, and decide it was time to remove himself from the group. Just as she tried to keep him still, he hopped from her grasp and aimed himself towards the pond, although remained outside the water's edge.
Alexander lifted the pipe towards the water, and Danny let her hands fall to her sides, palms against the ground, her top half leaning ever so slightly forward.
At the word 'naiad' she stiffened, but only slightly, for immediately after, the pond rose, and with it, what looked like what she could only describe as mermaid-like creatures. She gasped at the sudden pace of the area, going from serene to clamorous. She leaned back, her hands bracing herself against the ground, her legs jutting out in a fight-or-flight reflex.
She turned to Alexander and found him looking at her, probably gauging her reaction. She only returned his gaze with a helpless stare, for she was certainly inexperienced in his many fields of... study.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:46 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander placed a hand on Danny's shoulder as the Nixies clamored excitedly. "It's alright, there is no need to fear them. Nixies are peaceful." He said quietly before glancing back at the girls. "Well, mostly. Currently they're rather excited. I don't imagine they receive guests often." He said before smiling at Danny again. "Still, they will not hurt you, you are safe." Suddenly, there was a collective gasp from the Naiads, drawing Alexander's attention again. By now there were at least five young women of varying age, and all of them were watching the reeds of the bank move not far from where Danny and Alexander sat, mortified. Alexander put an arm around Danny, wondering if perhaps he'd spoken too soon.
However, he relaxed as a small form shoved the tall reeds aside. The youngest Nixie, the very one who had alerted him to the presence of the Naiads in the lake a year before, had hoisted herself out of the water away from her sisters and was struggling to make her way over to them, her long, froggish feet making walking quickly on the bank somewhat difficult, though she was certainly trying. She looked to be only around 5 or 6 years old and, as sometimes occurred with young children, was bolder than her older sisters. She fell once and, as Alexander leaned and offered to help her up, she seized his arms and used them to pull herself to him, wrapping him in an extremely wet, muddy hug.
"Fern!" The eldest said, leaning forward on the bank. "What in the world do you think you are doing!? Get back in the pond at once, you know the rules!!" She said urgently, watching Alexander carefully. "Amadaaay, this is the guy!" The littlest Nixie exclaimed. Her 'hair' had grown longer, though currently it was pinned atop her head beneath a lilypad. "I gave him this! He's okaaay!" She said, picking up the reed flute and holding it out to show her sister. The eldest Nixie ran a hand down her face, blushing deeply as she took in Alexander's now muddied, soggy clothes. "I apologize sir, she normally isn't so rude." She said sheepishly. The others looked equally embarrassed, but Alexander only laughed. "It's quite alright." He said, catching the child as she stumbled once again, having been standing in his lap. "Her excitement is quite endearing."╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Noted Musician Just a reminder of what Nixies look like, since it's been a while :3
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:29 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ With wide eyes, Danny watched events unfold. At Alexander's touch, she relaxed a bit, but as she took in the creatures in front of her, she couldn't look away. With some curiosity and little bit of wonder, she changed her position until she sat comfortably on her knees, her eyes still glued to the nixies.
After a few exchanges, Danny watched the littlest one wobble up to Alexander, and she sat up straighter, studying the tiny thing. She found herself smiling and standing up slowly. The little one was no different than any normal toddler. She took a few careful steps forward, and when the little one spoke, she felt a small giggle come forth, but she refrained herself. It seemed better for her to wait and watch than to interfere.
Nonetheless, the creatures that faced her were... spectacular to gaze upon. Simply things of fairy tales.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- LOL JK I HAVE NO CLUE WAT NIXIES LOOK LIKE MY BAD i'm laughing so hard actually ]
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:48 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander smiled reassuringly at Danny as she came closer. The littlest Nixie didn't seem to notice Danny's hesitance, just Danny. She stumbled out of Alexander's lap and grabbed hold of Danny's leg, mostly to keep herself upright. She stared up at the girl for a moment, something many of the others were having a tough time avoiding as well, before cracking a large smile. "You're pretty." She said happily. "Can I touch your hair?" Alexander ran a hand through his hair, concerned. He hadn't thought the little one would be so bold with Danny, considering she was human and not something the Nixies were used to. Then again, he knew Nixies had quite a fascination with humans and considered them beautiful. ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Noted Musician Haha, well you weren't necessarily wrong! Like...pond mermaids smile
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:36 am
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Danny's arms instinctively dove to hold onto the little one as she stumbled into her legs, and her fingers twitched at the smooth touch of the nixie's skin. When she spoke, Danny's cheeks flushed for a few seconds before she smiled and stuttered, "U-uh, yeah, sure!"
Slowly, she lowered herself so she was crouched, her eyes now level with the little nixie. She couldn't help herself from smiling again, and she watched the little one bring her hand to her head, slowly running it down the length of her pink hair. "Thank you for the compliment," she said, rather quietly, "What's your name?"━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:14 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗The little Nixie ran her smooth, webbed fingers through the young woman's hair, her amphibian eyes wide and her mouth open a bit, awestruck. It was so soft and so pretty!! Not like her and her sister's coarser 'hair' at all! "Oh, you're welcome! My name is Fern! That's a plant, look!" the child said, looking around. She turned to look back at her somewhat envious sisters. They were older, they should have been able to touch the human girl's hair! "Étaín, will you help me please and go get me a fern??" Fern asked, addressing the sister closest in age to her. The second youngest looked at the girl for a moment before darting off into the pond. She returned rather quickly holding a fern frond, though instead of handing it off to her younger sister, she hoisted herself out of the pond and brought it to the human girl herself. This one looked to be 7 or 8 years old and was taller and more coordinated then her baby sister. "This is what a fern looks like." She said, a little shyly.
Alexander remained where he was sitting, watching. It was obvious that at least the younger girls were all going to think of some excuse to get close to Danny, there was no doubt. The older ones may not unless invited, he figured they were more reserved. After all, they were clearly the caretakers of the group. Alexander thought about inviting them up to sit with them on land, but right now he wasn't sure how Danny would take being amiably assaulted by adoring Nixies. They weren't really interested in him, but that was no surprise. He was related to them. Not at all as exciting as the human girl.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:32 am
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Her eyes brightened as the second sister emerged from the water, and Danny decided to move closer. Pinching the mat she was sitting on with one hand, she pulled it so to close the small gap between her and the water's edge. With the other hand she steadied Fern, watching her steps as she herself moved, ending up next to the second youngest. As she sat back down, she looked up at the second youngest carefully, so as to make sure she was comfortable being this close. She didn't want to over step her boundaries, but being this close with such magnificent beings wasn't something she did every day. Well, with Alexander, maybe she did. It seemed to be a reoccurring theme. "Thank you very much for showing me..." she said, her voice steady and smooth, "Étaín? Was that your name?" she asked.
The more she spoke with them, the calmer she became. It was odd, how comfortable she was after only just discovering them. This feeling of familiarity was... weird, she thought, but distinct. As if she had done this all before. She couldn't bring herself to accept that, no matter how hard she tried. She knew that she had never done any of this before. She'd never met a nixie, never discovered any of these magical secrets before she knew Alexander.
At the thought of his name, Danny's dark eyes slipped to gaze at Alexander. She couldn't ignore the fact that she felt something when she was around him. She knew that much was true. It was a dark yet inviting feeling that swirled in her stomach, something that pushed her on, no matter how crazy things seemed when she was around him. Like if he showed her a new plant, or a new creature, or told her of something she only thought was real in fairy tales. The feeling pushed at her mind, it seemed to always reassure her that no matter how mind boggling things seemed, that it was all truly real, that she had done this all before, so why was she so nervous now?
It seemed strange, but Danny knew her gut was right. She just had to connect the dots. ━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:25 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:07 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander sat comfortably as the Nixie girls, one by one, somehow made their way onto the bank to crowd around Danny . The older girls asked about usual things - her hair, what kinds of things she liked to do, where did she get her clothing, had she made them herself like they did? - while the younger ones just stared with something like awe until they were addressed by either Danny or an elder sister. Alexanders admiration was much more reserved and quiet, but just as present and immensely deeper.
He watched Danny interact gracefully with creatures that, by her conventional education and upbringing, shouldn't exist. For a moment, he saw the old Danny. She'd always been able to take anything he exposed her to like it was nothing to meet the creatures she'd been warned against. As she turned to look his way, Alexander realized he'd been staring and turned to look at the now calm water, his generally pale cheeks flushed, though he was still smiling. He wanted so much to tell her how much he loved her, how badly he'd missed her for a little over a millennium, how he'd felt when he finally saw her again, but he couldn't.
With a light sigh as he shoved his slowly rising emotions away, Alexander took out a pocket watch and clicked it open. It was getting later in the afternoon, but not yet close to what one would consider dinner time. If it were, Alexander had no doubt that foxy little friend would come find him before hunting something down. It was a somewhat humid day, something the little fox didn't really enjoy when hunting and the reason he generally waited to hunt at night. All the same, he let Danny know the time by holding up his watch. They would leave when she wanted or when they were asked to.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:45 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ After letting her gaze hover over Alexander's flushed cheeks, Danielle's eyes landed on the watch he held up. She nodded gently, but returned to the nixies in front of her. They had bombarded her with questions, and she had gladly answered them all, as well as asked them about themselves. Truly fascinating creatures, she wished she could stay a little longer, but she knew she shouldn't overstay her welcome. After another minute or two, she sighed quietly, and turned to the nixies and said, "I think it's time for me to head out. It was such a pleasure to meet you all." She said her goodbyes to them all, and made sure they all made it back into the water before she stood up. "I'll be sure to come back soon," she spoke towards the water.
After that she turned back to Alexander, her hands slipped into her pockets. The more time she spent with him, the stronger her gut feeling became. She had also found that her migraines only happened when she had spent long periods of time with him. So, after so much deliberation over their connection, she still had a ways to go. ━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:55 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander allowed Danny to say her goodbyes to the Nixies as he stood, stretched, and brushed the majority of the now dried mud off of himself. He couldn't say he wasn't used to smelling of pond water and other natural scents, so really it didn't bother him much. He made sure to do this languorously so as to not inadvertently rush Danny, though there really wasn't much use. Another hug by a few of the younger girls, although they had dried out some, ended with him muddy once again.
Once all the Nixies were back in their pond, Alexander helped Danny away from the slippery banks and they found themselves back on the trail towards human civilization. Just as Danny did, Alexander tucked his hands into his pockets. For a time, they walked on quietly. "Well, that was...not what I expected, actually." Alexander finally spoke up. "Really, I thought they'd be much more cautious. But they were quite young." He said calmly, looking Danny's way. "Did you enjoy meeting them?"╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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