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Isabell's Family

Rei:

Rei (Reitheneko) is a psychotically maternal college student living with her boyfriend in a small house on the outskirts of Basken lake. You know when the Gambino Tower fell? (For the first time) Well, it almost hit her house. Anyway, being as insane as she is, she has recently come into the habit of adopting children, pets, or anything else she can shower with affection.

Lufa:

A rather... buisy man, he is the business half of the Rei+Lufa combo. He doesn't show a ton of emotion, isn't the most artistic person in the world, and can't tell when a cloud looks like a bunny! However, he is fantastic in the marketplace and in the exchange, so one could say he is the businessman of the family.

Ray:

Ray is Rei's other adopted child. He is very quiet, arrogant, and angry if you actually chat with him. He's olde than Isabell, and doesn't really care for her.

Isabell's Growth

Hi! My name is Isabell... My mommy gav yu to me to rite in. She sed yu wer called a Diry. She sed that yu wer for ekspressing myself in. So I desided to collor on yu! Yu are nowa green and hav pritty jewls on yu. I found them in a clozet somware. And flowers with kurly vyns.

Um... so... wut am I supozed to rite about in yu? I don't no.

...Well, tuday I met a nice lady. Well, I didn't meet her. But I saw her in the hows. I don't know who's house it is, I think it mite be her's. Evrybody was lisenning to her. They cald her Catzi.

I like Catzi.

I also went outside agin. I didn't tell you befor becuz I did not hav yu, but I went outside befor. It was really cold. And ther was wite stuff in the are. Mommy sed it was kald sno. I didn't like it becuz it made my wings wet. So I went back inside.

My mommy is here now. She sayz wer going to go hom. Did yu no we hav lots of pets? My mommy has three dragons and sum dogies and sum kittys and sum other animals. I lik them. I lik the dragons the most tho. Thay can fli lik my mommy says I will be abl to soon.

But I cant fly yet. I tride to onse. But I felld and made a thud noys. But I didn't get to hert. So it was ok. Mommy said I woodn't be abl to fli for a wile. When I am oldar I will be abl to.

I am gona go now. I am bord. Hopfuly I can say mor to yu tommorroe.

Sometimes I wonder about Ray. I mean, I know that he is a young man, and people are supposed to be all messed up hormonally at his age (mum explained that to me a while ago, when I showed signs of having crushes) but does he HAVE to hit on everything that moves? And he acts like he's being smooth.

"Did it hurt, when you fell from HEAVEN?" is only allowable in really old obnoxious movies. I shouldn't have to hear it when we go to the marketplace together! All of the Gaians selling their items look at me funny enough of the time, I don't need his help!

So... I've decided that my wings are a bit hindering. I can't pick things up like a normal person. I guess that's because I'm not a real person. Which is stupid, because otherwise I'm like a person. I think. I am not sure if I lay eggs or make babies like mammals. I mean, there's an obvious hole down there, but any sort of egg-fetus-combination might come out.

Wow... I got bored of writing and looked over my last few journals. I don't use you much do I? I'm sorry. Why am I appologizing to you? You're a book, I could just burn you. But... now I understand why Mom made me learn to write well. Just look at that! It's horrible! She must have died when she was teaching me to write. And I was so innocent back then. I wish I could go climb those trees and try to fly, but thoughts of science, Gaian politics, social problems, a constant fear of Zombies comming back to Gaia... it's all too much to think about. I can't just enjoy things anymore.

Anyway, more things to think about. Mom has decided to force me to go explore the artistic world of Gaia with some other members of our family. Ray, Chub (I call him Chub because Chubby sounds so... well, he's already so imasculated), Tsu, Nyu and Fyu, Gir and I are all going to be dropped off in the art district and left to roam. I hope those dragons don't try to steal anything.

I'll leave you a report on that trip later. I'm sure it'll be entertaining. A bird chick, a sexually agressive boy, three dragons and an anthro won't go unnoticed walking around Gaia.

The trip to all of the mini shops was quite facinating. I swear, I've never seen so many people! It's like half of Barton town and all of gambino got together and tried selling their art. Tsu, Nyu and Fyu wandered off somewhere, so I've no idea where they went, but I found them at home when we returned. But otherwise Ray, Chub, Gir and I had a good time.

Gir is such a little brother. He's only been with us for a couple months, but he's become rather clingy to me. I guess it's because the twins don't like him much, and I'm the only other weird looking humanoid thing in the house. Besides Chub, but he's just a hermit. So Gir spent a lot of the day looking at art from a distance, atop my shoulders picking at my feathers.

We started off in the item area of the mini shop district. Mom had given us... oh... 5000 gold to spend for ourselves. I thought that it'd be a lot of gold, but once we got in there and buying it went away pretty fast. I bought us all some drinks, and we each got little plush cats. They had little fake bombs on their tails. Mine was orangish.

Anyway, after the item area we travelled further into the mini shop district. We started seeing a lot of shops selling pets. I saw where mom had adopted Gir, though he didn't remember a thing the place. I also saw where Tsu, Nyu, and Fyu came from. How that I think about it, they might've been in there. But oh well. We looked around the pet area a while, and bought tiny little flying lizard things. There are a few with the elements, and can control them, and one that has hearts on it and spurts shining, pink, emotional bubbles. It was quite interesting to see all of those different creatures.

Sadly there wasn't enough gold to buy any pets. I mean, even the cheapest were a couple thousand gold. It made me wonder how much money mom had spent on all of the animals crawling around our house. Twenty some odd hampsters... there's something wrong with her.

I skipped around the art district a lot. It was so cool to see so many different artists all conglomerated into one big biomass. There were a couple small stalls with art that I could afford, but it wasn't very good. I told mom that later and she scolded me, saying that all artists start off like that. I felt kinda bad afterwards.

Asside from the small stalls, there were boutiques with multiple artists and a couple corporate looking buildings. We went into one of them and it was an auction. Pictures everywhere, examples of what the artists could do. I wanted to bid on some really great art, but saw that some crazy rich person had bid 3 million gold. That's more than I'm worth. That's probably more than my mother's net worth. Who would spend that much on art?

It was all very weird. To see the outside world of Gaia. I've only ever been in my home and at DT or Catzi's house. Or in the woods around there. I remember trying to fly as a kid. There are so many other people, other creatures out there. I don't think I can ever stay in my home again.

I got home, found the dragons eating on the dining room table. They aren't supposed to actually sit on the table when they eat. But everything looked so bland when I came inside. It was like looking at grey after witnessing red. "So?" The art world had turned me whymsical. I automatically went to mom's photo album to see what she'd gotten.

What I found was weird. Mom has the usual pictures of her drawn by artists, and of her and dad in their younger years all kissy and crap. But recently she's gotten pictures of human children... with her. She's gotten pictures of her babies.

Mom's got no babies. Mom isn't even pregnant as far as I know. I don't think...

You know what's fun? Making igloos out of waffles. I made this nifty two story this morning that I'm sure the hamsters would have liked to live in. It had two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a giant family room. But of course, no, like, kitchen, because the owner could just eat the house. Eat the house and swim in a pool of syrup...

After eating such a sugery treat it made me wonder. Am I supposed to be eating these things? I mean... I've seen birds around Gaia. And I am kinda like a bird. I have wings. Am I supposed to eat like a bird?

Mom in all of her current huffiness said that since I am more like a human than a bird I should eat like a human. But then, is this how a human is supposed to eat? Mom eats like that every day and she looks like she's putting on some weight.

Anyway, we finally got out of the house. It's just the beginning of summer and mom was determined that we spend the summer outside. I don't mind that much, accept for the fact that my wings and color make me ungodly hott. It's like I'm a toaster oven, I swear I'm going to pop bread out of my head any minute. We need air conditioning.

We went to the port of Gambino and I spent the day keeping the younger kids from jumping off of the docks. They're like fleas man, everywhere. When you think you've removed one another one pops up! And it didn't help that all of the dogs came allong.

Eventually I just gave up and jumped in with them. The water was so cold compared to the temperature of the air, so it was just heavenly. Razz and Jason tried to teach me how to swim, with 'stroking' and 'kicking'. We discovered that I was capable of flailing my legs in something that resembles kicking, but that my wings drag too much for me to swim. So I don't swim like a fish, or even a duck. More like a retarded otter, all I can do is float around on my back.

Well, it seems that I must go now. I have been left to watch the kids durring mom's doctor's appointment. She's been going so often that it kinda worries me.