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 Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:17 pm
Alec chuckled, lifting his hand above water for a moment to wave it off. "Nah, we're all peacheh."
He stopped short when he noticed she was shying away, her statement about her looks only reinforcing what her body language had been saying. "Wha? Neh, ye fine." The teen furriowed his studded brow, looking as nonchallant as was possible. Her... fingers were odd, her face was quickly losing it's human-like characteristics but she wasn't disgusting. he'd been spending too much time with people like Amaya to consider the blue-haired girl to be hard on the eyes.
"Did ye... change soon?" By the way she was acting as well as the little mishap by the lakeshore, he could only figure that she'd received her injection rather recently. Usually people became numb to their looks after awhile.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:25 pm
Awen nodded slowly. "Just this morning...." She gave him another small glance. "And I see you've done a bit of changing yourself, since last we met."
She moved slowly back and forth in the water, easing some of the tension in her muscles. It was surprisingly easy to keep afloat, and hardly required many kicks from her legs. The feet were an added bonus in the water, though they still hurt, but the wings helped relieve the pressure.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:32 pm
Alec sunk down into the water until the surfance was just under his chin, watching her slow movements like she was some fascinating marine creature from a documentary on tv. "Ye." He nodded somberly, twitching a lip at the mention of his 'changes'. A drip of water ran down his face and lingered on the edge of his flattened nose until he sniffed and rubbed it away. "A' won' eatcha, a promise." He laughed, entirely kidding, as a light jab at Emelyn's unwarranted caution. He couldn't even imagine attacking someone anyways.
Figuring she wasn't about to mention her own name offhandedly, he decided to brave the embarassment and ask. "Sorreh I, uh... fohgot ye name?"
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:37 pm
Eat? She tiled her head and as Alec moved closer Awen moved back. It wasn't that she was afraid, she just...liked her space. And the way he was watching her kind of freaked her out. Why was he watching her like that anyway?
She turned away from him and started swimming in slow lazy circles. "Awen, it's not really a common name, I don't blame you for not remembering it." She gave him a bright smile. "But hey...eat me? You are a predator then?" She didn't seem very concerned with the whole predator thing. After all, Chubbs, Ambrose and Pyroth were all perfectly good guys, and they were predators.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:43 pm
"Fook if a' know." He mumbled, his reponse possibly lost and inaudible. Remembering his purpose for being there in the first place, the teen went about fooling around in the water by himself, doing a lazy backstroke towards his own end of the lake to give them all some more room.
"Awen, kay won' fohget next time." He smiled up at the sky, answering loud enough for her to hear. "An' a' d'neh, a' figeh'd a'd let ye know in case ma teeth freak ye ou'." Chuckling, he lolled in the water and squinted up at the overcast sky.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:50 pm
"Teeth?" She asked and swam a little closer. She hadn't noticed the teeth at all, being more concerned with herself and looking foolish and horrid at the time. "I've been around Ambrose and Jamal and Joli and everyone long enough, teeth don't really scare me." She giggled a little bit.
She shrugged and flipped to her back, with a small grin she kicked a foot and splashed at the teen before her.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:03 pm
Alec wiggled his shoulder as he thought about the people she mentioned. Ambrose? Jamal? and Joli, the girl from teh caf. Yea, big teeth alright. "Ye, dees fings." He mumbled disjointedly as he shifted his floating mass to the side to point at the jagged protrusions. Maybe he was wrong, maybe they weren't that disturbing to some people.
Before he could realize that he'd opened himself up for attack, a splash of water hit him straight in the face. "Aye!" He laughed and sputtered, sinking down to upright himself quickly to retaliate with a splash of his own back at her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:38 pm
"Gotcha!" Her eyes widened and she turned her face away as the splash came back to her. She splashed at Alec again, forgetting whatever they were talking about. She pushed herself a little away from Alec, maybe a little further than she meant to. The new fins making movement incredibly easy.
"Ah haha! Can't splash this fish!" She laughed.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:54 pm
Alec successfully evaded the counter-attack by dunking his head underwater, coming to the surface only to see Awen much farther away than he had anticipated. "Eeey... cheateh." He laughed despite his disadvantage, figuring she'd be able to swim faster than him an account of her 'features'. Although he knew it was futile, he continued the game and swam after her until he was just close enough to attempt another splash.
"Ey... where d'ye sleep?" He asked when the question came to mind, leaning back as he waded and waited for a retort.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:09 pm
She didn't bother dodging the second splash, figuring she'd let him get the shot in. She would, after all, win this game if ever they really compeated. She was about to splash again when he asked the sort of odd question.
She chuckled softly. "In my duplex, like everyone else."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:24 pm
"Oh." He answered naively, the question having been of honest curiousity. Indicative of somesort of immaturity, random questions weren't uncommon from him and he didn't understand why people made such a fuss most of the time about being nosey. Content with the answer, he smirked and swam past Awen towards shore.
Reaching a downed tree that was now split and laying half-submerged, the teen lifted himself out of the water and took a seat quietly.
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:34 pm
"I might end up changing duplexes soon though..." She followed Alec towards the shore, but stayed in the deeper water. She honestly didn't mind him asking the question, it seemed silly but in a way it made sense. If Awen saw someone who looked like her she would probably ask where the person slept too.
"Sabin says there are duplexes that are mostly underwater... I might be more comfortable in one of those. Instead of just having a large tank where the bed is...."
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:32 pm
Alec shuddered but tried his best to keep his reaction from being visible. Her idea of a half-submerged duplex brought out memories of the horrible nightmare he had, though the experience was fuzzy, the details lost to him now.
"Sabin?" He chirped back, raising a brow before moving on. Probably just someone else he hadn't met yet. "Well... if ye need i'..." The teen trailed off, shrugging his shoulders. He almost felt bad for asking in the first place, but his insatiable curiousity caused him to often wind up in awkward situations like that. "C'nt be tha' bad?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:52 pm
"Oh um... Sabin's just one of the lab techs..." She glanced away. She hadn't really seen his shudder, not being the observant person today.
"Ah well, it's really not a bad thing. I don't mind moving, not much to pack up and everything!" She shook her head. "But before I had the tank, I got really hot and itchy and uncomfortable in a real bed. I ended up sleeping in the tub after the power came back. They installed a big tank-like bed when I almost drowned in the ocean... I am starting not to like the air as much. The lake feels the best, and the tank feels a little..too small. But I like staying in the duplexes still, and i don't want to have to deal with Billy out in the lake, you know? So.. moving to one of those rooms would be a good thing, right?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:06 pm
He twitched his head to look around the lake, frowning inwardly as she spoke. Billy? Lake? Oh great, not another weird islander to drive him away from a spot he was actually starting to like. "Soun's ekay." Alec turned his attention back to Awen and nodded politely. "Am no' envious o' ye, thas f' sho. No offense."
He rose from his spot and stood awkwardly on the fallen log though since his balance wasn't exactly the best. In fact, he had to skip across the small surface towards the muddy bank before his foot could land in the water. Of course, he tried to mask his clumsilness in the process. "Goo' luck wi' tha' though, d'ye need 'elp gettin back to ye... ye duplex there?"
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