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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:28 am
((Thought I'd post an open RP. Repllies from me may be a bit slow but I'll try and keep them on on the ball. Anyone can join!))
Nerissa was strapped in Serra's old pram and she was not looking too incredibly pleased about it. Not because she was strapped into a pram - but because Addie's idea of having a mermaid restrained when they had a tail was an interesting one. Usually babies had two legs and fit into it just fine. So what had she done? She'd bowed the material and made it more hammock like which was highly uncomfortable when she was trying to sit up.
Fortunate it was, for Addie, that Nerissa's fondness for crying was about the same as Serra's - she didn't like to do it. For one, it made her look incredibly ugly with her face all scrunched up...And for two, the sound just wasn't pretty at all. Which was a good thing considering they were in Addie's favorite place: The public library.
Serra was floating blissfully behind the historian on her little storm cloud, curled up and with her thumb shoved forcefully in her mouth. She obviously did not share the same passion for libraries that her mother did. In fact, they bored her to tears usually and so she took this time as a convenient invitation from sleep to visit dream land.
Addie moved the trio (the cloud seemed to have a mind of its own sometimes!) to the children's section and sat herself down on one of the beanbags, pulling Nerissa out of the contraption and reaching for the nearest book. It was The Little Engine That Could.
One of Addie's favorites from her childhood. Lovely!
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:29 am
Brownie had a strangely tainted fondness for books. As a toddler, she had spent a lot of her time with a copy of The Da Vinci Code, painstakingly learning the alphabet when nobody was interested in teaching it to her. She liked to read well enough now, but couldn't help thinking Dan Brown was pretty worthless. Sometimes, when she sat in the yard reading by herself, Brownie felt a brief, overwhelming sense of loneliness, no matter what book was propped open in front of her. She was fairly determined to make sure August would never feel the same way. Plus, she wanted to see what other strange things the toddler could do without anyone showing him. If he could read without being taught, she would just about die.
The preteen had pulled August to the library in a rusty wagon, not thinking that the staff probably wouldn't appreciate a creaky, wheeled menace rolling around their workplace. She had been forced to leave it outside, and was now carrying her brother, propped on a skinny hip. The only problem was, Brownie was quite short, and August was just about regular-sized. Squirmy too. Needless to say, this outing was turning out to be quite a chore.
The children's section loomed ahead and Brownie picked up her pace. When she rounded the corner and saw Addie and her family, Brownie turned to find another place for she and her brother to rest, muttering a brief apology. She was a couple of steps away before August whispered, "Stay," in her ear and she obliged, slowly strolling back towards the peaceful trio. It wasn't like she had any friends of her own to introduce him to. He might as well make some on his own.
Brownie quirked an eyebrow at the floating, napping Serra before placing August on the ground near her feet. She remained standing, not feeling the need to go all slice-and-dice on public property today. Her gaze shifted from August to the mermaid in Addie's lap. "Hey," she said in a library-appropriate voice. "Cute kid."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:52 pm
Before long, another new face appeared in the children's section. Kova paused at the doorway and reached out her hand to someone hiding just out of sight. "Delly-doo," she cooed under her breath, "come on. We'll get you some nice books. You can share them with Antony and Manny maybe. You've read all the ones we have at home, anyway."
Strike that. She read all of the appropriate books they had at the apartment.
Slowly, the tall woman coaxed out her daughter and a slim little girl, teal hair up in a tumbled ponytail and blue eyes huge in her pointed little face, appeared. When she spotted the other children and their guardians in a clump, she rocked back on her heels and pulled at her mother's hand.
Kova sighed and ignored the reticence. However, she didn't drag her daughter to the others, merely to a bookcase in the general vicinity. She knew better than to try and make Delilah interact with other children. Even as she began pulling books from the shelf in offering, she watched as the little girl watched the others over her shoulder. Finally, she lifted her hand and waved, fingers wiggling. "'Lo," she whispered.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:58 pm
"I think I can, I think I can," Addie's soft voice came as she read the story to the brunette snuggled up against her body. It wasn't often lately that the historian had been able to get a moment of pure contentment - especially since her eldest daughter was beginning to hit those 'terrible two' like stages she read about, but she found herself in a floating little paradise with her little mermaid.
The analogy fit, and didn't sound so lame when she first thought of it, okay? The voice, however, popped that little bubble that she'd lost herself in and her head turned sharply upward, eyebrow hoisting at the strange appearance of the girl. Huh. Well. It wasn't any more odd than the girl with the rainbow-crack hair, she supposed, or a baby coming from a cabbage...The woman who had thrived on history and fact had been successfully thrust into the world of the supernatural.
"Thank you. Yours too." Addie returned, shifting in the bean bag and moving the little girl into her lap rather than nestled against her side. Nerissa made a soft sound of complaint against her mother and turned her head to allow her green eyes, half filled with sleep from the effect of the story, to focus on the three that had popped up. Shyly, her hand lifted and her fingers wiggled in return to the blue haired girl.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:42 pm
Mercury had decided that even if her daughter couldn't be left out in the sun, she should be presented with as many oppurtunities to make friends as possible, especially since as a toddler, Ishi was much too young to be staying up after dark.
So she asked Angelique to take Ishizuke out while she was at work. Eager to please, Angelique had bundled the girl up in long clothes in spite of the warm summer weather, given her a pair of light gloves and a hat to protect her sensitive scalp, and taken the girl out to the library.
In hindsight, there were a million places with better social oppurtunities than a library, but it was the place most likely to have a nook without sunlight where Ange could stash her sister.
Wandering through the children's section with Ishi in her arms, Angelique was attracted by the sound of voices and followed them. Ishi squirmed as she heard company approaching, but she couldn't get away. Angelique rounded the corner and smiled at the small group of people and children already gathered there. "Hi," she said, betraying none of her inability to formulate complete sentences.
Ishi looked from face to face with her good eye and then opened and closed her fingers in a wave.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:57 pm
Kova's grin was automatic for the new arrival, bright and full of sunshine. Delilah's was a bit less vivid and, shyly, she turned her hand to wave at the blonde toddler. "Almost looks like a reading circle," Kova chuckled softly. "Story time at the library." She picked up the books which she had chosen and offered them to Delilah. "Wanna pick or share?" she offered.
Delilah bit her lower lip and looked around at the other children. Then, carefully, she chose a book with a large, fat, orange cat on the cover and held it close to her chest. Eyeballing an empty beanbag chair, she glanced at the others for permission to sit near them. "Please?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:36 am
August looked up at his sister, but before he could protest, Brownie nodded and stepped away from the toddler to stand by a nearby shelf and find something suitable to check out. She really didn't want to sit now, with all these people around to watch her struggle with the blades on her back, but that didn't mean she couldn't make room for someone else.
Following a brief frown at the floor, August looked around at the other people who had gathered in the area since he had arrived. The girl with the orange cat book was pretty interesting, but she was also tall. Everyone was tall! He turned to Angelique, pointed at Ishi and then at the floor next to him. Nerissa received a puzzled look. How did she play with no legs?
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:19 pm
Angelique smiled in gracious response to the greetings from Kova and Delilah, because something about the way Ishi buried her face in her big sister’s chest was suggesting that the girl didn’t want to meet company. When August pointed at Ishi and then the floor, Ange nodded and set the little girl down. Ishi looked up at her, eyes wide and full of frightened resentment, but Angelique did nothing but push her in the direction of the interesting boy who had invited her to come sit.
Ishi frowned and shook her head, but after a moment, she sighed heavily, gave in, and took a few steps toward August. She looked timidly at Delilah, who was very colourful and nice to look at, and then opened and closed her fingers in a little wave. She stayed on the fringes for the moment, though, rather reluctant to let anyone start talking to her. When she saw Nerissa, though, her eyes widened in fascination. She watched lots of Disney Movies. This morning she had seen Peter Pan, and there had been mermaids in that one. Nerissa looked like one of them.
Curiosity warred with fear for a moment, but curiosity won over and Ishi toddled over to stand in front of Addie. “Mermaid?” she asked quietly, face alight with doubting excitement. That would be so exciting!
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