Welcome to Gaia! ::

Kiro & Fae in the Centre

Kiro couldn't help but smile a little as the commotion ensued about him. It had started when Rosie had taken a liking to a pencil Tsu had been using to write with. Having already demonstrated a like of wooden (and more importantly chewable) things, she relieved Tsu of it and paraded into the other half of the room with it. And, as such, a giggling, running, and pretty loud game had begun. Kiro pushed his chair to the side a little as the pair zoomed past, Tsu's bell jingling in his hair, his tail still dragging along the ground. Rosie could be heard cooing in her throat as her wings flapped giving her a little extra speed.

Kiro watched the pair's progress quietly, smiling all the while. Rosie was proving a little destructive, to the point where they were taking walks to find her chunks of wood to chew up. And Tsu was amassing large piles of paper containing ideas, short pieces of writing, and other such scribblings, moving on quite happily with his profession.

Kiro was a little worried though, he had noticed that Tsu had been slowly developing larger handwriting and was holding the paper closer to read what he had scribbled down. He wondered idily whether...

"Oww!" Yelled Tsu suddenly, falling backwards and clutching his hands to his forehead. "Owwi~~~ee..." The short little Aerandir had managed to run straight into a wall.

Kiro picked up the small boy to give him a hug, aware that Rosie had hopped up onto Kiro's shoulder with apologetic cooing, the pencil prize having been instantly forgotten. Hitting your head wasn't much fun after all...

"Y'okay kiddo?"

"I hit ma head..."

"Does it hurt a lot?" Gently Kiro stroked the bump developing under Tsu's fur.

"Nah..." murmured the boy bravely. "Jus' surprised me was all..."

"Sure?"

"Mmhmm."

"Y'know," Kiro said, his expression thoughtful. "I wonder if you need glasses...?"

"Wassat...?"

"Like... uhh..." Kiro hesitated. He'd - amazingly - never had to wear glasses in his life, though he'd been tested several times. "They're like, bits of glass that bend light. It makes it easier for your eyes to understand what they're seeing."

Tsu looked thoughtful for a moment. "How do I get glashes?"

"I'm not sure kiddo... let me think on it, okay?"

It had been a lazy day, in the same way as so many days were recently. Rosie had chewed something, Tsu had written something, and Kiro had studied something. It was the kind of day when nobody really wanted to do that much of anything.

But that was the day that Rosie grew.

It was an odd feeling at first, the gryphon thought. The wood she'd been shaping suddenly fell through her beak, and when she tried to pick it up she didn't exactly get very far.

Then she began to change again - it was like something deep inside her was restless, unwilling to pause for the natural order of things. Her newly shaped wings solidified, her new hands stretched out in front of her, and her tail fwumped lightly against the doorframe as it too took shape.

It suddenly dawned on her, as she studied her new limbs fearlessly. Had she just... grown?!

~~2006/12/05~~

An early morning, and still the light shone brightly into the Centre as Kiro wandered through. He was looking for both a cup of green tea and to see if there had been any mail that day. Of course, it was near impossible for daily mail deliveries, but they seemed to be fairly sparadic. There seemed to be a new pile on one of the tables, as well as a fairly weighty looking parcel. And it seemed to be addressed to Kiro, and bore his university's logo.

Absently, the neko-jin set down his cup and, after locating a knife, he carefully slit the package open. Inside were something Kiro had seen before, a set of ridiculous-looking glasses and a full set of lenses stared back at him. Tsukai had been needing glasses for quite a while, and after pulling a few strings at the university, Kiro had managed to acquire a means of finding Tsu's perscription.

Standing from the table, Kiro meandered back though to their room to wake the boy up. Rosette had taken over the floor in Tsu's room, a materess having been laid down for her. Tsu had somehow managed to retain the bed from his loud sister. Quietly, Kiro stepped over Tsu and shook him. "C'mon kiddo, sun's out."

"Keeo...?" murmured Tsu lethargically, turning to look at his guardian, and holding out his arms to be lifted out of bed and over hs sister.

"I got a parcel today kiddo," Kiro said in explaination as he carried Tsu through the room and into the Centre. "And I think it'll be good for you."

"How...?"

Kiro sat the boy down at the table with the box on. "I wrote to the university, and they sent me a box of glasses bits," he explained. He reached into the box and took out the first piece, a thick glasses frame which would allow the lenses to be inserted and removed. "I know this looks bad," he said, "but this will tell us how thick your glasses need to be, and then we can get you an awesome pair from the mainland."

Tsu hesitated for a moment, seeming to wake up suddenly as the horrific-looking glasses were retrieved. He stared at them for a second. "But I dun haff to wear it... Do I?"

Kiro shook hs head. "Only just now. You can use it if you need to, or you can wait for your glasses to get here. Now, let me just get these on..."

After successfully getting the glasses on Tsukai's face, Kiro's next job was to make trial and error with the lenses. He started on a fairly light perscription, before quickly realising Tsu needed a stronger perscription. Heaven knows how the boy'd managed until then.

Eventually, they settled on what seemed to let Tsu see the best. The boy seemed content, as long as he got nicer looking glasses. Kiro wrote up a letter, informing them of Tsu's perscription and thanking them for the help. The box of lenses would be kept in a cupboard in the Centre, in case anyone else found a need for it.

"They say they can send the glasses back a few days from when they get the letter," Kiro assured Tsu. "I'll try and see if there's mail heading out today, okay?"

Tsu, having now fully woken up, seemed excited. Kiro couldn't tell if it was because he'd be able to see, or because he was suddenly getting all this attention. "Thanks Keeo!"

"No problem kiddo. That's what I'm here for. Now, go write a masterpiece!"