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 Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:49 am
Levi nodded and toddled out as well...blinking at the porch with a growing smile. Well, this was much better than being cooped up inside!! Peering over one shoulder to see if the boys were following, he galloped past Halo and whumped down the stairs.
"LEVI! No farther, please! Stay close!"
Ambling to a stop, Levi jabbed one finger towards the bright toy in the yard that had caught his attention on the way in...mouth open in silent protest at being stopped.
"That's not yours, darling! You should ask first!"
Brows knitting, Levi sighed...gazing now at the pair near the doorway. "Ah dis? Yah? Ahe pay?" Nodding hopefully in encouragement, Levi waited for an answer.
How lovely, he was minding his manners! Somewhat, at least. Settling onto one of the porch seats, Aki scooted over...making room for Halo. "So...what's this about Nora? Is she actually worth...hating?" It was a hard word for Aki to say...hate was almost unknown to her. She preferred to keep it that way. "We don't have to talk about it if you...well..."
Cheeks coloring, Aki abruptly regretted bringing it up. How nosy of her!! Levi, however, was oblivious to the whole conversation...shifting his weight from one foot to the other as he awaited a response.
"Ayah." Well, at least he could try to catch that dragonfly if they said no...it wasn't like he was short on options!
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:30 pm
Chuckling, Wren nodded his head towards both of the woman and drifted off towards the kitchen to fetch some drinks. Including some fruit juice in small child size cups for the children. Then again, before he actually started to prepare and get the drinks ready for the others, he was on his way to do a brief check in on the other children.
It'd be a couple minutes longer before he returned.
Lafe was right there with Alex, if only a little behind. His tail was wagging back and forth excitedly at going outside. Never mind that Levi was all ready gone and down the stairs and out in the yard. Which, of course, was the ultimate destination.
He couldn't remember whatever toy it was that Levi got his hands on, so it didn't really matter to him. Lafe did, however, crawl next to Alex and tug on the other's cape so that they could do the baby attempt at the stairs.
Stairs could be conquered! ... and the yard could be stalked! That shiny thing hovering in the air looked like a prime target or maybe the bird hopping about in the grass near the bushes.
"... eweh?" Lafe turned his attention to Levi once more and peered more closely at him. What? That toy wasn't his and he didn't think it was Alex's. "Haa!" It was a mimick of Alex, but obviously -- well, down to the yard they were meant to go.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:00 am
"Nora... is definitely worth hating." Halo scowled a bit and cast a glance to the house next door, only separated by a thing stretch of lawn.
"The woman is a gossip and a menace and she's probably peering through her shades right now trying to gather information to slander our names around the neighborhood." Halo shook her head and the usually smiling woman had a distinct look of disgust bordering on violent hate.
"And she as good as threatened our kids."
Alex looked at the stairs and then at Lafe and then towards Levi. Ha.. stairs! That's nothing! And he didn't know what the toy was either. Maybe it was Otium's or Mael's but they wouldn't care because it wasn't shiny or gold.
"Maah!" Which was intended to mean 'go ahead, have fun, we'll take the stairs' but didn't come out that way. When Lafe tugged on his cloak he smiled at the other boy and reached his hand out to grab one of Lafe's ears. he tugged it lightly and made a motion, that in later life may end up being scratching or petting.
But only a second later he was moving to the steps and turning around to he could lower his legs and feet down to the step below, and then when his bum was on the lower step, he did it again. Slow and steady.
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:12 pm
Levi squished up one eye, still trying to puzzle out if he'd actually received permission to play with the toy. He opened his mouth to repeat his request, and promptly shut it once more as he watched Alex and Lafe navigate the stairs. That looked like way more fun!!
Toddling in their direction, Levi scooted to his own section of the stairs...thumping all the way back up to the porch. Watching Alex for a moment, he chuckled and settled down upon his bottom...sliding down the same way.
Well, not quite the same way.
-whumpwhumpwhump-
"Hayah! Uhgin!" He'd ended up on his bottom on the concrete, having slid all the way down the steps on the seat of his pants. He didn't have stairs like this at his house!
Trucking back up to the top to do it again, Levi caught a brief warning look from Aki...and offered her his most charming grin back. He couldn't be in trouble, this was too much fun!
Waving Lafe and Alex back up to the top of the stairs, he bounced on the highest step. "Cohmeh? Ah side?" Making a downward motion, Levi mimicked the slide...still grinning. Perhaps they would want to try as well! After all, it was Alex's idea!
Aki sighed, a smile appearing on her lips as well. It was so hard to say no to him, and at least he was getting the energy out here rather than staying up all night.
Her gaze shifted back to Halo abruptly, however, at the mention of the children's safety. "She...threatened them!?" She was itching to turn and take a peek at the house, and perhaps see this horrible Nora, but Aki was simply too mortified to turn.
"I...well...it's been a while, but if you'd like...I can try to lay some wards in place. Nothing hostile, I can do warnings, purifications, immobilization, and selective passage." Ticking off the types of wards one by one on her slender fingers, Aki shrugged sadly.
"Well, I could give it a shot, anyway. Like I said, it's been a while..."
Her stomach twisted at the thought of such a horrible woman actually harming one of the children. She was sure there was more to the reason, but nothing that could possibly matter.
Evil was evil, no matter which way you sliced it.
"Something I wanted to ask you, actually. Is she...talented...in that regard? There is something already in place in or around your house, but it's not the type of ward I can create. Mine are based on...faith." This wasn't a conversation Aki was used to having. She hadn't renewed her devotions to Elunae in many years...it was leap to assume the Goddess still granted her blessings. The field she had felt here, however, was different. Structure, rather than faith.
-whumpwhumpwhump-
Aki giggled, despite herself. Levi always knew how to break an awkward silence.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:01 am
Wren's sensitive hearing actually picked up bits and pieces of the conversation as he came back outside with a tray of drinks in hand. He snorted slightly, realizing they were talking about Nora, and merely smiled at Aki as he set the tray down on the railing carefully.
"Ah, well, honestly, I suppose if you wanted, I wouldn't object ..." He cast a glance towards Halo, eyebrow raised in question. Not like it would affect theirs and a little more to irritate Nora never hurt. "-- though you might say our wardings are a bit chaotic, even if firmly structured," he said quietly, not truly meaning to interrupt. The whole entire house was chaos at times, who wasn't to say that the power they wielded wasn't either. "Though, honestly, Nora's as normal as they come so far as I can tell -- she's just a thorn in our side, and prone to name calling, as well as idle threatening, though some things I don't care to repeat in the presence of kids. I ... don't think she can make good on them -- but they're bothersome."
Wren lowered his voice, "Unfortunately, one of our other sons, Mael ... Well, let's just say he's taken to calling Nora a rather unsavory name for someone of his age to use. Even if the gossipy bird deserves it." His quiet tone, however, shifted into chuckles at the children.
Lafe just arched an eyebrow at Levi and watched Alex as he bumped his way down the stairs ( and Levi as well, though he went for a second ride it seemed ), a brief smile at the tug to his ear and a motion made as if he might've pressed into the hand for more attention. The pooka cut his eyes to his tail briefly, before snorting. "Keh." His tail could take it. Feet down. Bump. Tail-swish. Feet down again. Bump. He continued on, making small growly noises as he did so.
He barely paid Levi any mind once he finally made it to the bottom himself, all most doing a rolling motion forward until he landed on his bum again, palms pressed flat to the ground and his tail swishing excitedly. He quickly turned his sights to Alex and Levi. Come on, they were in the yard now!
... and there was that toy that Levi had pointed to, what was it? Waitwait! What was the thing flying about the yard? His ears twitched, nose sniffing at the air, and he looked back at Alex with, wordlessly expressing his curiousity to him. Did he know what it was? It wasn't a bird.
Did Levi know?
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:24 pm
Halo took her drink and took a sip, almost snorting a bit, not out of humor, but in irony when Aki said her wards were based on faith.
"Your wards and ours may clash.. a little. And yeah.." She flashed a devilish grin (and people wondered why a demon married her) at Aki, "If you dabbled with ours they may be a bit out of your league. Not in.. power just being on the other end of the spectrum. We're perfectly safe form the likes of her." Her eyes darted to the house next door once more and growled.
Alex cast a glance back at his mom when he felt her ripple with another tiny simmer of anger. It was like he knew it, not from listening so much as sensing. But it wasn't something that wasn't bothersome right now and noone would even notice that he reacted. So back to fun!
He'd conquered the stairs with Lafe and grinned a fanged grin. Out of the shade of the porch he felt the warm sun and it was sort of nice but it got him hot really fast so he crawled immediately for the cool grass and not the icky hot cement.
He caught onto Lafe's attention and looked up at the flying thing too. "Bwaah!" He pointed an outstretched hand at it and wrinkled his nose, not in disgust, but like an animal. He sniffed a bit.
"BAAH!"
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:58 pm
Aki nodded in obvious relief, not in the slightest bit offended by Halo's words. It had been a while since she'd tried, and if there was no need she wouldn't bother!! Peering up at Wren, accepting a drink with a grateful nod, Aki tried not to laugh at his story of Mael.
"I think I can imagine just what he called her! It certainly sounds fitting, from what I've heard. I just don't get it, though!"
Shifting her gaze to Halo for a moment, then back to Wren, Aki motioned out into the yard where the boys were playing. "They're no different than other children, not in the things that matter! They are kind, and innocent...they treat each other well! To hold hate against a child is.."
Grimacing as she took a sip, Aki's face smoothed unexpectedly. "Oh, this is great! Thanks!" Blushing a bit as she realized she might have been a tad rude to drink without them, Aki raised her glass for a toast. "Thank you both, you're wonderful hosts! Here's to happy endings...for those that deserve them!"
Levi twisted to stare up at the porch at the sound of clinking ice, shrugging as he lost interest. He'd had enough of the porch sliding, but whatever the boys were chasing certainly looked interesting!!
"Ehdah!! Gettum!!" Pointing as the bug zig zagged, Levi struggled to his feet...waving both arms to scare the bug back towards Lafe and Alex. Startled, the bug complied...flying rapidly away from the wiggling pirate.
"Goh! Haha!"
**
Aki was enjoying herself, reclined on the porch as she chatted with Wren and Halo. The temperature was nice, and Levi was being well behaved...although she knew he'd be getting hungry again before too long. The boy put away more food than any child she'd ever seen!!
"We should be going before too long, I know I've taken up so much of your day already!! I wanted to offer again though...if you'd ever like a night to yourselves, I'd be glad to babysit! If you think I could handle it, at least!"
Offering the couple a wink, Aki rattled the ice in her glass as she tipped it back for one last sip. Alex and Lafe didn't seem like a handfull, but she knew kids were always different without their parents around!!
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:35 am
"Considering his disposition towards her and ... most others at times, it's not surprising. Now, if I can keep him from saying ... other things." Wren coughed, his eyes on his drink briefly, and smiling up at Aki and Halo a bit with a slight nod towards the conversation.
"... really," he agreed with Aki, "a child should be free from that sort of thing, most who look after children look at it that way." Wren paused, the tray set down with his drink, a hand tugging on a few strands of hair that fell into his face. "My parents would probably agree -- at least in reference to their own kids." The words were murmured quietly, thoughtfully, and mostly to himself. Though if Wren had ended up with siblings, well. There was nothing wrong with another child doing harm to another, right? ... riiiiiight.
Lafe sniffed as Alex did, not quite use to the scent he was picking up from the flying thing -- except when it came close to them courtesy of Levi sending it their direction, he figured out what it was!
"Agah!" ... which should've translated to something like buggy flying creature, but baby talk was so limiting. He gnashed his fangs some, tail wagging back and forth rapdily as he tried to go after the bog. Except, really, all he ended up doing was tumbling onto Alex and sending the both of them rolling into the shade of a nearby tree.
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"Ah, yeah, it is getting late, isn't it?" Wren lifted his eyes, looking towards the horizon before turning the watch around on his wrist and looking at his watch. "But, uh ... heh. Well, I suppose we could take you up on that, or maybe look after Levi for you sometime?" Levi didn't seem too much of a handful, compared to ... the other children they had and the other creatures, pets, and other beings about the house.
Plus, he got along well with both Alex and Lafe, which was rare so far. Though a glance towards the lawn told him that Lafe was likely covered in grass and stains, but from the happy sounds he heard, it couldn't be that bad.
... or maybe it was because Alex was scratching at Lafe's ears, because he had an itch he couldn't get and ... oh, yeah. Alex knew just where to scratch. He'd nudge the toy back to Levi in just a second ...
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