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 Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:03 pm
(( Jan 23, 2008 )) Moofuls The rains had finally come to an end, but in the months following not a drop fell over the forest. With the arrival of winter there came no snow, only a bitter cold that froze the ground and made drawing water from the already shallow wells impossible. Blocks of ice cut from the lake were available daily from the marketplace to be melted down for whatever use may be in mind. Water was rationed fairly strictly; even the lake couldn't last forever. The village had settled into an uncomfortable silence. The streets we busy for only a brief few hours during the warmer parts of the day, and then the villagers vanished back into their homes to hide from the skies that always seemed to promise snow and never delivered. Small Sargtlin patrols maintained their watches on the perimeter of the village, but their guard was only half-hearted. The Ssan had long since retreated from the cold. The patrols were merely a means of keeping Sargtlins occupied while their leader was distracted. Thankfully, Lysius's absence from his position wasn't expected to last much longer. Satou was said to finally be recovering; that is to say, she was finally to a point where no one feared her passing on in her sleep. She was awake and speaking coherently, and Lysius, who had hardly left her side in the weeks since her return, was now making frequent appearances in the market during the busy hours of the day--usually to bring blocks of ice back for the pair and the healers staying with them. Today, however, the pattern of the winter days was broken by one once-Uuthli striding down the empty street, a large block of ice hoisted onto his shoulder. With the news of Satou's improvement, Jack had ventured free of the safety of the Vhaid's mansion to check in on the sargtlin--and the Sargtlin--for the first time in the months since the incident that had led to Satou's injury. Upon reaching Lysius's home, he knocked with his free hand and was greeted by one of the healers, who invited him in and, at his request, led him to Satou's room. "The Sargtlin isn't actually at home right now. I believe he's gone to check in on the patrols...finally." The healer paused, hiding a smile, then waved Jack ahead. "Satou was awake when last I checked." Nodding his thanks, Jack stepped past the Afya and risked a peek into the room before stepping completely through the doorway. He greeted Satou with a somewhat forced smile, hovering awkwardly in place before gesturing towards the ice still propped on his shoulder. "I brought water."
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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:11 pm
(( Brothers:: ))
Alexander Edward's face frowned even deeper that usual as he recognized the sports car pulling into the drive. The man who stepped out of the driver's seat glanced up at Alex, muttered a hello and then calmly walked around to the passneger seat and unbuckled two little girls. It ocured to Alexander that Jen knew him well enough not to ask for help, and on the same theme, Alexander had no intention of offering it. He sighed. The arrival of Jen and his daughters, cute as they were, meant that the house was going to be over run with two small skull monkey girls, Keppit's two youngest sons who were mid teen, and the newest bundle of joy to the house.... Amahli... Alexander snuffed his disgust and glared at Jen as the man led his daughters in through the front door. As they passed, Keera pointed at Alex and said "Alex doggy" with a grin. Alexander promptly stood and paced off into the woods. Anything was better than his mother's house today.
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Rusty shook his head at Luke. "I can't believe what you're saying to me." And he meant it. He never lied to Luke because he and his brother shared a minimal bond, making feelings stronger between them... Luke would have been able to tell if Rusty was lying. "you honestly think that you might want to move away from Lily and Calvin?" And me, his statement unfinished outloud, rang painfully in his head.
"Of course." Luke wasn't trying to hurt Rusty's feelings, he honestly thought that this was something they needed to think about... they were both adults after all, and Lily had been a loner all her life. It was good to think about striking out on thier own... kind of. "What do you think will happen when you fall in love? There's got to be a pretty jivvin out there who thinks you're the only Rusted out Green man for her." He stiffled a laugh and prepared to fend off Rusty's objections.
Rusty didn't object however, since he knew how Luke worked. Instead, he just frowned at what he considered to be the handsome pink version of himself and walked from the room. They'd be having this conversation again, later when Luke was feeling less funny.
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Kamin grinned up at his older brother from the stool where he sat. "What happened to this stool? Wasn't it about a foot taller when I was here last?" He kicked his feet out in front of him comically as if to show the height difference.
"That's the one that broke. I told you about it two weeks ago." Fluff was a wonderful example of everlasting patience, especially when it came to Kamin, and he just kept chopping the vegetables on the counter in front of him.
"Oh" Kamin kicked his legs back and forth a few times, more because he could than for any other reason, and then he spun quickly in a circle on the stool twice before bringing his attention back to his brother. He grabbed a peice of bell pepper off the cutting board and popped it in his mouth, talking around the vegetable. "I would have thought you'd have thrown it out."
Fluff reached out and and picked up a second chunk of pepper that Kamin had knocked to the counter. "It was only one leg, and I can't see throwing out a chair if I can fix it by making it smaller." He chucked the peice of pepper into a bowl. "And you shouldn't talk with your mouth full, it won't get you many friends."
"I have all kinds of friends." Kamin grabbed at another peice of pepper but was fended away by a quick and precise hand slap from Fluff. The younger jivvin grinned at his brother... this was the way it was supposed to be. "Did you see that new recruit in Gal's ranks? She's goregeous."
Fluff just smiled.
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Satou leaned against the railing of the arena and smiled to herself as she watched the newer members of an Uuthli rank sparring under careful watch. Gus shifted beside her and gasped as one of the larger young men dealt a particulalry harsh blow on his opponent, knocking the other male to the dirt floor. Satou grinned again, remembering her first sparring matches.
As if he could read her mind, Gus turned to her. "You actually used to do that? Stand in the arena and hit each other with dull swords?" He just couldn't wrap his head around it... he didn't even like playing with swords back when he and Jen were kids... of course, playing swords with Jen meant getting smacked in the tail alot with sticks. "It seems... harsh?"
Satou laughed and shifted her weight onto her other leg. "Would you rather they go out into the woodlands with the Ssan without having any practice at all? They'd all be eaten right off."
"I suppose..." He let the thought sink in. Of course it made sense to let them practice, make them practice even... but it still wasn't something he thought back fondly on. "You remember when Jen used to make up play swords with him?"
Satou sighed... "Jen never made me do anything. I don't think he even ever asked me to play swords with him." She didn't blame Jen of course... she'd been remarkably hateful towards both Jen and Gus when they were all little.
"You didn't miss much." Gus grinned over at his sister, and laughed when she grinned back.
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Meiser had known the jivvin was approaching long before the other jivvin even knew he was there. He also knew from an almost maplike sense, that the other jivvin's name was Elayeth... So he was waiting quietly in the bushes.
Elayeth wasn't making an effort to hide his approach, in fact he was doing exactly the opposite, making sure to step on each and every stick as he walked. He was finding more and more lately that he had to get away from his house, and his family. He was remarkably lost in his thoughts when Meis' voice startled him.
"Elayeth, is it?" recently he had discovered that he liked being able to startle others with his knowledge. They usually seemed to think that when he knew their name he also knew everything about them. He didn't, but they almost always gave themselves away very soon after. "What brings you out here tonight?"
Elayeth frowned at the black jivvin in front of him and forced himself not to ask the obvious question. "I'm getting away from my family. Not that it's any of your business... creepy black jivvin in the dark, was it?"
Meiser smiled, and then laughed at Elayeth's face. There was somthing about this red jivvin that he liked imiediately... maybe it was his attitude. "I'm Meis." He shrugged as if that explained everything. Really though, it did explain everything... Meis kind of deffined who he was, but noting who he was not... that left a lot to choose from. "I only wish that I had an excuse like that... I don't really have any family." He said it almost wistfully... like he regreted that fact.
"Oh really? You're lucky then. I have a brother who treats me like dirt, and a woman who doesn't really love me but wants me to call her mom.... oh, and a stupid little sister who hates me." Elayeth's words were bitter, and strangely cultivated.
"Oh I have brothers... they just have no idea who I am. We grew up in different families."
"Lucky you."
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:24 pm
(( July 21 2009 ))
Satou picked up Caelis and then turned to the pouty child with a frown, "Quit it. Or I'll send you back into the house and you won't get to play at all." The small boy responded with an even deeper pout and squirmed enough so that Satou put him down again. With a shrug she turned to the villager leaning on her front post and smiled as if to say 'what can you do?'.
"He's usually worse, believe it or not... I mean, I guess I should have guessed he'd be stubborn, just look at his parents!" She laughed genuinely. "Two of the most stubborn, unwilling villagers who never give up on anything!" Then she shook her head and smiled again. "anyway... would you mind keeping an eye on him for a minute? I have to go wake his sister." She waited for the nod from the villager and then she turned into the house with a smile, leaving a small blonde haired boy with a bowl cut frowing up at the villager at the post.
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"You mean... a girl?" He stopped to think a moment. There had been lots of girls, girl after girl in fact. He could remember all of them (or so he thought) except for three women in particular. "I've been with lots of women." He laughed and lifted his beer into the air, toasting whatever higher powers had given him such good fortune (or so he thought) "And it's a wonderful thing, mind you, to never be alone in the evenings... but it would be nice to have someone special... There've been three women in my life, three that I think about in the dark..." He glanced over at the patron sitting at the bar next to him... how long had he been talking to this jivvin? hours? Minutes? maybe... What had the question been again? Ah... women. "I don't know their names, or even remember what they look like really..." He squinted his eyes at the beershelf behind the woman serving, as if that would make the memory more clear. "They were as different as night and day, but they were all... " He couldn't think of the right words for the memories. "None of them were particularly pretty... or nice... just... I don't know. One, she was as mean as the rain, cold and harsh, wonderfully wicked... Another was like a white rose, soft and pale, easy to talk to and a wonderful lover... the last, and I think I recall her best, could go back and forth between hot and cold so fast that it would make your head spin." He laughed suddenly and pounded a fist on the table. "By god she was fiesty!" and then he laughed once more for good measure. "I swear she could make it rain firre if she got mad enough, that's how fast she could switch. It was the best headrush." He got quiet suddenly in thought... "I wish I could remember them better.... But" cheerful again "I guess that's what too much drinkin' and not enough nights does to a man like me!" (or so he thought.)
"Anyway..." He turned back to the jivvin beside him and smiled companionably. "Sorry you asked?"
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