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 Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:30 am
Quinn thought about this for awhile, her face screwed up in concentration. Finally, she looked at Sati and asked, "Well... do you know who she was? Because maybe then it would be easier to find out who she is meant for. If she really needed Tweek to live, wouldn't she already be gone, since Tweek's not here? Maybe there is someone else?" She knew she really didn't understand what was going on and she was trying very hard not to upset the woman in her fragile state, but she wanted to help, none the less.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:41 am
'Nobody is ever born with the knowledge of who they were..at least as far as I am aware. It isn't as though I pushed out an instruction manual with her when I gave birth.'
Sati shook her head;
'I don't know how long it takes, I just know that it's inevitable. Fa'e have to have Guardian, or they fade away. I'll just have to cling to the hope that someone will come who has dreamt of her, dreamt of a soul that finds its way into the world in a dark-skinned little girl.'
She looked up at Quinn. Sati knew that she was full of empathy for her and her babies situation, and she seemed nice enough. If she only had dreamt of her!
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:51 am
Quinn looked rather abashed. She was embarrassed by what she was about to say. "You know, that kangaroo dream...? Well, the big lizard, she wore a dress and one of the kangaroos ran to her and was bleeding all over and then she hugged him and yelled, 'No! Brother! Do not leave me! You must not go!' And then he died. And she cried and let out this really sad noise and they turned to stone. And I heard the lizard woman speak, but it was carried on the wind. 'I am coming for you. Hold onto me.' And then I woke up and I found Tweek's note and came here."
She looked at her feet for a moment, unsure of how to continue. Finally, she shot a rueful smile at Sati and the baby and finished, "I'm sorry. That sounds stupid. I shouldn't have bothered you. I... I can go."
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:42 am
'Wait..' Sati said, standing, her long hair falling behind her as she did so. She stood there for a long moment, quietly looking between Quinn and her baby, before making a choice.
'Here, you can hold her for a moment.' she said, arranging the girl in her arms so that she could hand her over to Quinn. A strange dream like that before she found a note from someone who she thought was meant to be the Guardian...Well, there was only one way to find out, and her child had already responded fairly postively towards the woman.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:46 pm
A broad smile bloomed on Quinn's face as she held her arms out to take the dark-skinned child. She loved babies and had been yearning to hold her the entire time she'd been in this strange house. She hadn't known how to ask, since the woman seemed so distraught about her child disappearing. It wouldn't have been right to limit their time together any more than necessary. She didn't know what had made the woman relinquish her now -- certainly not that silly dream -- but Quinn was not one to argue when she was getting her way, so she excitedly waited to be handed the baby and kept her mouth shut.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:54 am
Sati stopped, pausing just at the moment before she handed the baby over. There was suddenly something..like she knew that this was the moment.
This was when she gave her one and only child over to someone else to raise. Not because she wanted to. She didn't want to at all. Her eyes were shining with unshed tears, and she wanted more than anything to snatch her little girl away and just run. But that would condemn the baby. And Sati never wanted anything to harm her.
So Sati gave her baby to the other woman, pressing a hand to her mouth so that she wouldn't cry after she passed her to Quinn.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:14 am
A happy little tingle passed through the fox-woman as she took the child in her arms. It felt right to hold her, like she had been waiting for this all her life. As Quinn situated the dark-skinned child in her arms, the bit of paper that had been torn from Tweek's note drifted to the floor. She stooped to pick it up and silently praised herself for not dropping the baby. Snagging it between her first two fingers, she used her thumb to flip it over. Written in Tweek's untidy scrawl was a post script:
P.S. Adelaide
A smiled bloomed on her wide face and she looked down at the bundle in her arms. Shoving the bit of paper in her pocket, she traced the child's features with her fingers and whispered, "Adelaide. She thought of everything."
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:16 pm
Sati felt a knot in her throat; she even had a name for her baby.
'Adelaide.' she mumbled, placing a hand on the babies head, feeling the delicate bones underneath the mop of hair.
'She's yours..I have to. I have to go..' she couldn't stand this any longer, she had to go, find somewhere she could howl for a while, and then get on with life knowing that she wouldn't see every inch of her babies development.
'I'll come here again..few days.' she managed to say.
'I'll see you again my heart.' she leaned in and kissed Adelaide's cheek before fleeing.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:42 pm
Quinn stood dumbfounded as Sati fled from the room. She was pretty sure that they hadn't even exchanged names. And now she had a child to look after and no baby things at home and she never expected the day to end like this when she woke up this morning. Looking down at the plump, wriggly baby in her arms, she reminded herself that it wasn't all bad. Smiling, she positioned the dark-skinned babe on her hip, wincing slightly as Addie reached up to pull on her fuzzy ear. "Well, I guess we should go shopping," she informed the little one. She looked the way Sati had fled and added, "I'll be sure to pick up a video recorder, too. I think that might make your mother happy."
She wrote down her name, address and phone number on a piece of paper under the heading, "For Adelaide's Mom," and headed out the door. Hopefully, the woman would see it and contact her when she was ready. If not, well, she'd just haunt this place until she saw her again. Little girls need their mothers and Quinn meant to see that Adelaide had her's.
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