Little test-drive RP
Me (Azumi) w/ Keres
Rabid Ice Weasel w/ her Magical Mishap, Ike.
The winged, lion-taur bodied, child came to a halt at the edge of the grass where vegetation and sand met in a scraggly line. A glance was cast over her bare shoulder, and then a snide, pleased smile crept over her face. She had finally lost The Rabbit, who was still probably looking around in the far-off shrubbery, and could now whole-heartedly enjoy the grandeur of what lay before in the little sea of crushed rock.
Golden eyes turned away from the park’s forest line and looked in awe at the huge play structure, complete with swings, two slides, and a tire swing, that sat proudly before her. The child’s porcelain face brightened, like only a child’s could, and one her four feline paws, she…half-gracefully made her way across the mini sand dunes and up the steps to the highest platform.
From her tower, Keres gazed around with a proud, pompous, smirk as she folded her arms high over her chest. Yes, there she was, Queen of the Play Structure And Old Juice-Box Straws From Other People’s Picnics….it was a long title, but no matter, it was GRAND.
Malachi had not so much lost his family as abandoned the little ones to better explore the playground. As expected, Dezzy was bawling about skinning her knee, and Björn was trying to not break things.
Especially the child.
He sighed and closed his eyes, wishing he had brought his violin with him as he hid in the corner just off of the castle's bridge.
The child had gotten to the next deck when she finally heard the crying from some other kid coming some yards away around the other side of the play structure. Knitting her thin dark brows, she made note to not venture over there, and kept a note-to-self to keep herself on the down low. The Rabbit could pop out from anywhere…
After much slinking and sneaking, Keres soon found herself at the bridge…and it was one of the ones that swung and wobbled. Great…
Taking a breath, golden eyes first glanced through one of the rope “bars” for The Rabbit, but seeing that she still wasn’t anywhere nearby, the child lifted a large paw and took the first step.
The bridge hadn’t moved much.
A sigh escaped her and she stuck her arms and terra-dappled wings out for balance while her prehensile serpent tail waved out behind her. She took another step. And Another. And Another. Everything was going okay until she went to close to the right and the bridge creaked and dipped.
“AIEE!” She screeched for a split second and in a flurry her claws dug into the wooden slats, wings pressed against her back, and arms and tail wrapped around the ropes that ran along side her…which sadly for her only caused the bridge to tip further down to the side so that Keres was looking the sand below fully in the face.
"HERK!" Ike cried out, feeling himself nearly topple forward to the other side of the bridge. Not cool. NOT COOL. He stumbled a bit and grabbed the little kid who had, somehow, caused the bridge to have an epileptic seizure.
"Y'okay?"
He was big enough to not be at all frightened of the wobbly rope structures by now.
Keres screeched again, but this time it was from realizing she was being held.
“LEMME GO LEMM GO LEMME GO!” She thrashed with her hands and unsheathed paws, eyes closed to keep her wings from poking them. “LEMME GO YOU STUPID RABBIT!” How’d The Rabbit get here so quickly?!
Ike blinked, still keeping a rather good hold on the girl.
"I'm not a rabbit. I'm a squirrel. Kid of."
Her captor’s voice reached her ears and the taur child immediately stopped thrashing for a second. Looking up at him. She raised one brow in a skeptical way, as is considering becoming nice since this kid wasn’t The Rabbit.
…
nah.
“LEMME GO LEMME GO YOU STUPID SQUIRREL!” The squirming and thrashing came back on, but this time it included a whip-like tail that’d coil around anything it touched and then constrict like a mofo.
"Ow," Ike said briefly and pulled the child back into the middle of the bridge, "Jeez, alright. Fine." He went back into his corner then, mumbling something in Vavvian.
Keres lay in a disheveled heap of feathers. Her fur was all backwards and her hair was ruffled and totally out of place. Snorting, she glared to where the white furry kid had stalked off to as she tried to flatten her hair again.
…it was then that something caught her attention and peeked her curiosity. THAT BOY HAD A TAIL. It wasn’t like The Rabbits short little sad excuse for a tail; it was long and furry…and…yeah.
Picking herself up, still glaring, Keres moved unsteadily across the rest of the bridge and stood in front of the much larger child. She put her hands at where her hips would’ve been, and tilted her head slightly to gaze up at him with an “evil-eye-of-inspection.”
“What’s in the middle of Paris?” It was THE RIDDLE…the riddle that decided all; The riddle that decided if she’d continue talking and annoying the boy or if she’d just go away.
(the answer is “the letter R”)
Ike looked up, arched a brow, and thought a moment.
"R."
The child crossed her arms and let a devilish little smile flick across her lips before she nodded and said, “good!”
Seeing that she could now annoying the child without much interference (unless The Rabbit came along), she moved to the side of the boy where she could see his tail sitting about.
Without asking, she poked it, then proceeded to pick it up by the tip and then drop it over and over again. “Why are you covered in fur?” she asked, still picking up and then dropping the tail.
"Because it's the way I was born," Malachi replied simply, shrugging. Each time his tail was dropped, it gave a rather satisfying 'thud'.
"I'm part squirrel."
The thud was indeed satisfying, and to show that it was, the girl’s own tail would lift and fall as his did.
Still playing with the tail, gold feral eyes flicked up at the boy after he spoke. “Does that mean you stuff stuff in your mouth and make your cheeks get really big?”
Ike laughed slightly.
"Probably."
He'd never been possessed to try.
“Huh.” She lifted her brows for a moment and then looked back at the tail again. “Can you climb trees?”
"Oh, yeah. That I can do real well."
She nodded.
“Can you FLY?” Her eyes went wide for a second, and she half-flapped her own wings. That’d be SO cool.
He sighed heavily.
"No, but all my friends can."
“I can’t either. Neither can The Rabbit. She says she’s flown before though…But I don’t believe her,” she replied like a matter-of-fact chatty Cathy doll.
Sitting down on her haunches, she took the tail up and started braiding the longer strands of fur almost absentmindedly. “Why can all your friends fly?”
Ike watched on in horror. As if he wasn't effeminate enough already...
"Ah...well. Dei has a cape, and Len has sharp wings, and Reid is part lightning bug."
Someone in the distance, Dezzy stopped crying
Dei…Len…Reid…all those people had weird names…It wasn’t fair that they had weird names and got to fly and she didn’t…she even had bloody wings!
“Huh. That sucks. You have a cool tail though,” she said, though she spoke in such a way that nothing she said showed sympathy.
"Sure," Ike said offhandedly, "Everyone in my family's got sumthin' weird about them. I guess my tail's mine."
“OH!” She exclaimed suddenly before going on almost excitedly, “ The Rabbit has an eye-patch! She doesn’t take it off, but one time, this one time, she was sleeping and I took it off andTHEREWASNOTHINGTHERE. It was just all ‘bluuuuughg’,” she made a really weird face that obviously didn’t give an example of what it looked like under the patch, but it seemed to work for her.
"Oh. Yeah. Lost an eye, did she? I don't think anyone of mine is missing body parts." Now that he thought about it, though...
“I guess,” she said, and then finally let his tail drop to the floor again, but now it was complete with many little braids. “Your tail’s braided now. It looks prettier.”
"Uh...thanks," Ike said, grimacing slightly. He'd take them out when he got home, if he survived the taunting.
Looking down at the tail again, Keres folded her arms and canted her head sideways as she inspected her work. With a sharp nod, she gave a last look of approval of the braids, and then looked back up at the squirrel-boy, a look on inspection on her face again.
“Are you really a squirrel-boy? Your ears look like a rabbits.”
"Yep, I am," he reassured the girl, "I don't really know why my ears are so big."
"Maybe you're part rabbit too and that's why you can't fly." Yup...blunt as ever.
"Nope."
“Well…I guess you’re doomed to the ground then.” She shrugged and then looked around. It was then that something glinted down in the sand and her attention was immediately grabbed.
“What’s that?” She pointed towards where whatever it was that was glinting…it was so totally hers
"I'unno," Ike shrugged, "Why don't you go check?"
She looked up at him as if he’d just asked her to swim the English Channel. “You get it for me!”
He shrugged.
"Okay."
He stood then, looking as if he had suddenly aged 50 years, climbled nimbly down teh nearby ladder, adn retrieved the shiny thing without really paying any attention to what it was.
"Here."
With a mischievous look on her face, she quickly grabbed whatever was in the boy’s hand and then held it close to her, hunching over it like a hermit would…or maybe Gollum.
After a minute of her inspecting every inch of the damn thing, she finally burst out, “SHINEY DIME!”
"Congrats. You have ten cents."
This girl was starting to get on the boy's nerves.
“More than you have!” She retorted, but was still smirking slyly and clutching the damned little dime at her chest.
Ike said nothing, simply staring.
Keres stuck her tongue out. Such a child.
"Bye." Ike said suddenly, standing once more and starting off toward his family.
A little “hmph” was given, but she didn’t call him back. A small “bye squirrel-boy,” was said and the child sat down again and went back to rolling the dime in her hands.
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