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 Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:00 pm
With Slush who knows where, Tourmaline took it upon herself to find fun, and having heard her father come home, the toddler immediately began heading in his direction. She arrived in the garage several solid minutes after Isto did, and poked her head out the door, leaning out on her tip-toes and almost falling due to the change in center of gravity.
Currently, the little SM could not see her father's bald tail, "Hi daddy."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:06 pm
A scratch. Isto frowned. When had that happened? Dirt was one thing, but a scratch? On his bike? Isto sighed, but brightened somewhat with the greeting. Setting his tools aside, he glanced back over his shoulder past various piles of junk to the doorway, smiling and gesturing Tourmaline over. "Hey sweetheart, come to help me work?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:14 pm
"O'tay!" Tourmaline beamed and hustled over as fast as she could over to Isto, which wasn't too fast at all, stopping when she got to his leg. Placing her hands on it, she stood on her tip toes and peered at the motorcycle, eyes wide with curiosity and sheer excitement. "Whas dat?" She pointed at the machine wide eyed before glancing up at Isto expectantly. He was playing with it, and thus he should know what it was.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:23 pm
"Motorcycle," he replied cheerfully, automatically moving one hand behind her should he need to brace her. The garage wasn't exactly the best place to take a fall. "The big noisy thing I ride to work on, you know? It's like a mini car without a top." Sort of, but better. Times a kerthousand.
"Here," and he picked up the rag, tore it in half, and passed half towards her. With his own half, he lazily rubbed the scratch in the hopes that it might actually just be some dirt or some such. Not what he would be doing without Tourma there, but she could do thise too. "Just wipe the dirt off, seee? Real easy. And then we can fix some parts. Like when you took apart your bed..." He glanced down at her, lifting a brow and grinning faintly.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:33 pm
"Mo-tor-ciical." The little girl repeated in concentration, brow furrowed for a moment before it relaxed and she cheerfully attempted to climb up on Isto's leg while reaching for the rag. Once her fingers were clasped around the fabric, Tourmaline immediately began rubbing the closest dirty, metal object, her father's metal arm.
Tourmaline didn't seem the least bit fazed by the bed comment. "I unfrewed it!" She exclaimed proudly, puffing up her chest and looking absolutely full of herself.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:50 pm
"Exactly" Isto praised, helping onto his leg and waiting until she had balanced to turn his attention back to the bike. She briefly distracted his attention once more as she set about cleaning his arm, but just as he was about to avert her to the bike, he thought better of it and let her continue. Less trouble for him later on.
Chuckling softly at the obvious pride in her voice, he graced her with a grin and nodded. "That you did. But Mum wasn't too happy about having to put it back together. We'll have to find you something else to take apart for next time, howsat?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:00 pm
"But... I like my frewdriver." The toddler whined, eyeing Isto suspiciously, half expecting him to talk away her precious screwdriver and half of the other tools she had obsconded and stashed in her room. Tourma half debated shoving the dirty rag in Isto's face and making a mad dash to protect her treasures, but eventually decided against it, distracted suddenly by a poof of green behind her father.
Her face screwed up in a mix of disgust and confusion, Tourma peered around Isto to look at his tail, or what was left of it. "Ew. Whasdat?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:10 pm
"I'm not taking the screwdriver," he assurred her, turning his attention back to his bike. "We just need to find something better for you to take apart than your bed, alright?" There were plenty of smaller things that would probably take her a bit longer. They could find her an old toaster or something. There was plenty of junk in the garage for her to tinker with, presuming he checked it out first to be sure there were no sharp edges.
He glanced up curiously with her question, following her gaze back to the poof and beyond it before realizing it was the object of her attention. Isto grimaced, twitching his tail idly and turning his eyes pointedly back to his work. "Faust shaved my tail. That's all."
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:30 pm
Good. Tourma was relieved when she found that her precious tools were safe, and grinned before returning her eyes to the shaved tail. "Ugly." She stated.
Well... It really was ugly.
Trying as hard as she could to tear her eyes away from the naked tail, she finally became redistracted with the motorcycle and the various tools around them. Her eyes, however, continued to steal disgusted glances to his tail when she thought he wasn't looking.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:58 pm
"Thank you, sweetheart, I'm aware of that," he replied dryly, rolling his eyes. It wasn't his fault his tail was naked. Of course, he really could've cared less if it weren't so cold out. His tail would be freezing until the fur grew back, and he wasn't about to wear some little sweater on it. While on that thought...he should probably shave the remaining poof off before people started calling him a poodle.
He went back to work, watching Tourma out of the corner of his eye all the while, just to be safe. When he started noticing her glances, however, he paid a bit more attention and, whenever she looked back, flicked his tail up towards her leg, curious to see what reaction it might get from her. It was only a tail, but...well, it didn't exactly look the part right now.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:07 pm
It was moving?! Tourma's eyes grew wide as she edged away from it a little more each time it flicked at her, "Stooop~" She whined, curling her tail around her protectively as if the Naked-Tail-Syndrome was contagious.
Heaven forbid her tail become ugly.
After a while, the toddler began to whack at it with the rag Isto had given her. Ugly meets ugly.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:15 pm
Oh come on, it was just his tail. Isto snickered, but, when Tourma began to fight back, pulled his tail back and let it fall away. Mock sighing, he glanced down at the little girl. "Now look what you've done... You killed my tail, Tourma!"
First bald, now dead. How terribly depressing.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:21 pm
Hmph. Tourma peered carefully behind Isto at it before sighing in relief and beaming at Isto, "Ugly dead." Taking the rag again, she returned to cleaning off her father's metal arm, working on each of the fingers individually.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:34 pm
Merf. She was no fun. What use was having a 'dead' tail if the kid who killed it wasn't going to feel the least bit sorry? No fun, no fun.
"It wasn't going to be ugly forever," he complained, reaching his normal hand back to grab his tail and pull it around forward, keeping it limp. "Remember how it used to look? It was going to be like that again. But now that it's dead, I'll just have to chop it off. Get a big ole knife and cut it off so it doesn't kill the rest of me," he lamented.
At least his hand would be nice and clean.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:48 pm
"But it ugly now!" Tourma whimpered, skittering over to Isto's metal arm when his normal one brought out the 'dead' tail. Staring at it, she shook her head, "More ugly if no tail."
The two thoughts seemed to puzzle her, on the one hand it was damn ugly, but on the other, daddy would look weird without his tail.
Think. Think. Think.
"Yah. Don cut it. Mommy would be mad at you." And there was another important point. Isto probably would be in big trouble with Slush if he found Isto tailless rather than bald and ugly.
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