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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:14 am
Brownie bounced and clapped her hands. This castle stuff was pretty cool, even if it was currently a little flat. She grabbed a bunch of little handfuls of sand and started piling them on. "Tow'r yah!" Stupid mouth. She had cooler stuff to say, she just couldn't get it out.
Maybe this castle could have an arena. For fighting. Nah, Shauna didn't seem interested. Brownie looked up at Aunt Smerdle and pinched her fingers together in silent inquiry. Surely her cousin could use some tiny crabs. And if she just happened to go in his room and shake the cage when no one was home, it wouldn't hurt anyone.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:43 pm
"Yeah! Mister Hermit crab is sure to love this!" Shauna said with a smile, getting some wet sand to put around the piece of the castle she'd just molded to give it some extra support. The fox blinked and watched Brownie for a moment when she began pinching her fingers. What was that all about?
Mentally shrugging it off she turned back to their sandcastle, only this time her tail felt a little tug. It was a tiny one that she might not have noticed had she not been aware of her tail at all times. She blinked again and turned around to find another hermit crab and giggling. It must have been their lucky day! Carefully picking up the other crab and putting it next to the first one, Shauna smiled. "It seems we've found our princess!"
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:51 am
"Can I help?" Smerdle asked, leaning down next to her niece. When Brownie started asking for hermit crabs with the intention of setting them up for deathmatches, it was time for someone to intervene. It was a good thing Shauna didn't know Brownie very well yet.
"No," Brownie said quickly before turning to Shauna and smiling. "Prncessssss!" This was going to be so cool! She carefully stacked more sand before patting it lightly with her palm. It wouldn't be long before they had the best castle on the whole beach!
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:41 pm
Shauna blinked. "Miss Smerdle can help! The more the merrier!" She said with a smile, petting Brownie's hair and nodding. "Princess Crabby! And this is her handsome Prince Hermit. They're happily and love and betrothed to one another! That means they're arranged to be married." She piled some sand on top of one another to make the tall tower the princess would be trapped in. "But the...evil witch Madam...uh...madam shell!" She held up an ugly shell with bumps all over it. "Madam Shell was jealous of their love so she trapped the princess in the higest tower in the castle and built a giant mote around it so the prince couldn't get to her!"
The fox looked down at Brownie, her smile still present. "That a good story?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:31 pm
Brownie didn't answer right away, a sudden idea striking her somewhere around the first mention of Madam Shell. She giggled to herself every few seconds and alternately shot Smerdle dirty looks and poked around in the sand. Aha!
She unearthed a big, curvy shell, larger than Smerdle's hand from the sand and lugged it over. "Drag'n," she said, grinning happily. "Good storee." Good? Now it was a ******** great story.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:03 pm
The fox looked down at Brownie when she found a big shell, taking it from her and holding it up. Her ears perked up when Brownie suggested that be a dragon, giggling and nodding her head a few times. "That's a great idea! A dragon to keep the prince at bay!" She put the shell down next to Madam Shell and the crabs, beginning to build a small wall around their castle.
"This'll be the best story ever!" Shauna smiled at Brownie, digging a section of the mote where she'd just taken sand for the wall. This was pretty fun! She never came up with stories like this for sandcastles!
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:03 pm
Smerdle sat on the side of the castle opposite Shauna and watched as Brownie packed sand happily. Everything was fine now, but Smerdle had seen that look in the toddler's eyes before, the look she had worn while finding her giant dragon shell. That look was caused by many things - anger, exhaustion, plans for grown-up torture - but it nearly always ended with trouble. Smerdle picked up the crab dubbed 'Princess Crabby' and started to put her inside the castle wall.
Brownie squinted her eyes as her aunt picked up the crab. No fair. Shauna could pick up all the crabs she liked, but not Ant Smerdle. She actually liked Shauna. The toddler's chubby fingers quickly wrapped around little Prince Hermit's body and raised it off of the sand. Maybe she also squeezed the little crab a bit harder than he was comfortable with, but it was only a squeeze of love, right? She was about to show Shauna her triumph, when a sharp claw pinched the fleshy part of her palm and Brownie's eyes welled up with silent tears. Brownie wouldn't cry in front of her new friend, but she squeezed her lips together for a moment before sticking the lower one out in a pout.
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