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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:09 pm
Libraries.
They were soothing. Ever since she had learned to read, Emi had loved to just walk into a library, settle down in a chair and let herself be embraced in the silence. Books surrounded her, usually with one on her lap, and the people were often courteous and soft-spoken.
It was a refuge from home. She liked Rakha and Daemon and Lian always was very nice to her. But Dagger was loud. Dagger was what kept the house from being silent and distant from one another. She brought life to Rakha's eyes and she made Daemon calmer, funnier. While Lian tried not to let her get to him, she made him smile and pushed the boy to do more then just sit at home or play basket ball outside. She got him a boogie board, another skateboard, knee pads and clothing.
She made Emi go to ballet classes and talk to people. Forced her into clothing that, admittedly, the swan had grown to like and encouraged her to be more herself.
Still. It was good to have a place to go, to hide for a while. It was peaceful to have a books weight on your lap and Emi was fully contented. But her book was done and there was a small pile more to take out. Once the book was put back, Emi - her arms full with the four fictional titles - headed towards the front desk rather cheerfully.
Emi was wearing pink today. It was a soft pastel pink, barely showing on the soft fabric, but it was pink and she had a matching ribbon tying back her wavy hair. So the day was good. Books, soft pink and quiet.
It was a good day.
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:14 am
Ah, libraries. Definitely one of Alora's favourite places as well. The dove loved quiet places, and home wasn't exactly in that category right now, as Yourie and Mereneth were making another din, quarreling, which was starting to be a ritual in their household, ever since Melody's cousin had stepped in. For some reason, the two had gotten off to a bad start. In Alora's opinion, Yourie was quite nice, but she knew better than to step in, her brother had a hot temper.
It wasn't exactly the noise that disturbed her, it was the fighting as well. Alora didn't like tempers rising, nor the quarreling. She had tried to ask them to resolve their differences peacefully, but it didn't go well. Oh, not at all.
Clad in a simple blue dress and silver sandals and her blond hair tied up in a simple hair band(to keep them out of her eyes), the girl walked into the library. The last time she had come here, she was researching about her dragon, and had met Roule.
Well, would she meet another D-Corp here then?
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:11 am
Indeed, she did meet someone there. Or she would, at any rate. If the two got up the guts to talk to someone new and different.
Emi spotted another pale figure as she was headed over towards the line to check out her books. She only glanced, a small sideways thing towards... A girl who looked a LOT like her.
The usually graceful swan stumbled just slightly as she saw the red-eyed little dove girl. Her wings fluttered, flapping out in order to keep her balance and those brown eyes were wide. The girl looked like her due to coloring and the quiet expression. Emi saw herself each day in the room of her ballet class...
Even the coloring of her clothing was the same! Well. From what she could see, the color of Aloras dress, and the style, was something simaler to what Emi would wear. What to do?
Dagger would say go talk to her. Lian would've agreed. Rakha would have told her to ignore the girtl and keep on to her goal.
Dagger was the leading force in her life now. So she took a hesitant step foreward towards the girl, intercepting her. For a long moment, Emi was silent, just staring at the girl. This was the first time she approached someone she didn't know, without Dagger or...or Aidens say so. Oh.
"Hi."Her voice, so so small, peeped from her lips with a bare squeak. So shy. Her face was dyed a soft pink and her arms tightened around the books. "I like your wings."
It was lame. She knew it was lame. Dagger would be smacking her palm against her forehead and groaning into the air at the lameness. It was all that Emi could even think of saying, only thing she noticed first. The wings. Large and lovely. The girl was interesting, much more serene then herself.
Emi wanted to be that peaceful, so lovely and serene. Ballerinas had to be to succeed, to carry a grace and confidence. In that moment, she envied the younger girl.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:56 pm
Alora didn't notice the other girl at first. She was just too busy wondering what books she would read, or bring home today. Fantasy. She decided. She wanted to immerse herself in something that would make her forget reality, for now.
Then she snapped out of her reverie.
And noticed the girl standing in front of her.
Alora's reaction was exactly the same; she was shocked. Shocked at how alike they both looked. Two white birds. It was like...this girl was her twin. Almost. Light-blue eyes scanned the other quickly from top to toe. For one, this girl had curlier, lighter hair than she had. And their feathers seemed a little different, she did not have tail feathers, or the two which each descended from Alora's ears. And her markings were black. Not red.
Then the girl spoke. Quietly, so similar to how Alora was. At the compliment, Alora glanced at her wings. They did seem...different. So she was another white bird as well?
"Hello." The girl replied, softly as well. "You're from D-Corp as well?" The she blushed, realising the stupidness of the question. Of course she was. "I'm...Alora." She ventured with a small, tentative smile.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:22 am
The others staring surprisingly didn't make Emi blush. Other then some facial features and coloring, it was almost like a mirror. Almost, but not quite. It was close enough to make her feel a little braver, like she was going to be talking to someone like her. Well, someone slightly like her.
She had feathers on her ears and she had bright red rings around her eyes. If it wasn't for her gentle expression and way of moving, Emi would have been slightly frightened by the look of it all, as opposed to her dark streak over her nose and cheeks. As it awas, it just made the girl stand out more and her wings, heading to her self-conciousness, fluttered uselessly behind her for the briefest of moments.
"You are?" Aloras question didn't seem so stupid to her. Emi had seen children with feathers and decorations who weren't a part of D-Corp, she had seen how different people could be and not all of them were genetically enhanced. The question had only made her wings flutter again before tightening against her back and Emis fingers curved tighter against the strength of her books. "I--"
A hesitation and then, slowly, Emi smiled back, her shoulders hunching just briefly. Her mothers words rang through her skull and caused the girls posture to relax, to straighten. But she was smiling to a complete stranger. That had to count for something, didn't it? She thought it did.
"I'm Emi." Her voice was still rather soft and the girl shifted from one foot to the other. Now her cheeks chose to take on a particular pink hue, head ducking akwardly. "Uhm. Yes, though. D-Corp. I'm." Another hesitation, soft brown eyes slanting up under her lashes to peer at the other girl, "I'm a mute swan. What... What are you? You..."
And quiet, once more. She was staring, again.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:46 pm
Well, Alora had only met other children with animal DNA from D-Corp, so she had presumed that Emi was one too. Yes, her little sister had wings too, but she didn't exhibit any more animal-like qualities. He brother seemed half-dragon, but it wouldn't be logical for D-Corp to create a dragon kid would it? Besides, Alora knew what he really was.
The swan girl seemed awkwardly shy. Alora had been too, when she was younger, but she had grown slightly out of that phase. Yourie had commented that she was more quiet than shy, really. The teenager had discovered that when she struck up a conversation with Alora and had urged her to go and make more friends, and not "hole yourself up in your room with books everyday". Alora didn't see anything wrong with reading, and besides, sometimes, she had no idea what to say to strangers.
Emi. Such a simple, yet pretty name. Alora mused. It suited her. Ahhh, a mute swan. That explained the lack of tail feathers. And the markings. "I'm a Brillant White-Tailed Diamond Dove." She offered back softly, then lapsed into silence.
How was she to continue this conversation? She had no idea. Alora wanted to be friends with this girl. They were so alike! There was a desire in her to have a good friend, someone she could talk with anytime, about anything. But Alora didn't know what else to say.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:36 pm
Both of them were so quiet. Emi didn't know what to say NOW. After all, they had just divulged what they were made from... Both had looked the other over and both of them had come to their own conclusions. They were quite shy - or simply very quiet - and both seemed to enjoy books.
But still. What to say now? Emi started to shift uncomfortably, her fingers flexing all the more and eyes looking to the side and then back to Adora. If she didn't say anything, she'd look dumb. If she said something dumb, she'd confirm that suspicion.
What would Dagger--
No. No no no. This wasn't Dagger. This was her and this was her trying to learn how to deal with new people and cope. Not everything could be expressed through dancing.
"Do you like to dance?"
She could talk about dancing. Emi was good when it came to talking about things such as that. It was other things - life - that she had trouble coping with.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:29 am
It was like this slow, silent tension was growing between them. They both wanted to talk to each other, continue this conversation, but at the same time, they didn't know what.
Alora felt herself squirm uncomfortably. She felt dumb; she badly wanted to say something. But her brain was blank. Her eyelids lowered and stared down at the floor, and she looked up again when Emi spoke.
"Dance?" She echoed softly, shifting her weight as her wings ruffled silently. "Um...not really. I mostly...read though." Then she smiled, making eye contact with the other girl. "What form of dancing do you do?" That wasn't a stupid question, right? She hoped not.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:24 pm
"What do you read?" Emi asked promptly. She didn't like the pregnant pauses, the akward glances. This girl was like her, wasn't she? Even from D-Corp! The unsettling thought that Emi, maybe, was untouchable to even herself wrestled with her mind... The swan didn't like it. She didn't want to be like that. Dagger said she had to step out of her shell, sometime. It was time to do that, right?
Right.
"I....dance." A stumble and her face flushed, a heated crimson that flared for a brief moment. It nestled down to a faint pink tingle on her cheeks and nose and the girl flinched. A quick glance down gave wave to her voice; it was small and shy still. "I ...I do ballet. Or learning! It's really hard, especially with wings. I'm just learning to read, though. I like fantasy books but..but that's because... I mean..."
The last part was a squeak and Emi near trembled, her head dipping more. She wasn't crying and her eyes weren't wet (although Alora probably couldn't see with her head just slightl dipped) but there was a small tremor in her. The fear of saying something Stupid.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:42 pm
"Fantasy." Alora's sky blue eyes lit up with enthusiasm. "I mean, it helps to take my mind off reality for a while." Especially when Yourie and Mereneth were arguing, which was quite often. Then she added, " And it takes you to places beyond your imagination."
"Ballet." The dove repeated softly. "Yourie's been asking me to go for lessons, but I'm not sure if I want to." There was uncertainty in her eyes. Alora didn't know if she was up for dancing, especially if Emi said that it was hard with wings. And to top that, she had tail feathers too.
The girl was starting to warm up to the other, well, until she noticed the dip of Emi's head. Startled, Alora peered at Emi. "Are you okay Emi?" She ventured worriedly.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:28 am
"What kind of fantasy?" Her voice was still a squeak; Emi had to shift the weight of the books to one hip so she could scrub at her eyes in a most unladylike fashion. "I like ones that don't have dragons in them... We get enough dragons as it is, you know?" She nodded firmly, glancing up with a little small smile, despite her own redrimmed eyes. Hers were a different reason for being there then Aloras, however.
"Momma says I cry too easily. I've been trying to stop because she gets angry if I do but..." She tapered off, her voice nearly a whisper. "You're nice. I.. I'm just bad with people."
The swan nodded firmly, hesitating at the tone of the other girls voice when ballet was brought up; she was nearly wriggling as she did so, gnawing on her lower lip for a brief moment. "You should try to take classes with me. The people aren't very nice but.. but Madame is good. It's kind of hard, with the wings?" There as a small rise and fall of her shoulders, both hands now wrapping around her books once more. "But.. but it's fun. Like fantasy except you... You get to be in the fantasy."
Her voice faltered again and Emi smiled, a small shy thing but it was genuine. "It's like magic."
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:43 am
The dove smiled. "I like those with magic. And mythical creatures." Alora grinned, pushing a blond strand behind a ear. "Mmhmm. My brother is kinda like a half dragon. Oh, and speaking of dragons, what's yours?" It was true, Mereneth had leathery wings and a few scales here and there.
"You're not." The girl protested lightly. Part of her felt immensely guilty that Emi was crying, although she knew it wasn't really her fault. Or was it? Alora just didn't like to see people feeling bad. "I mean, I'm kinda like that too, sometimes I don't know what to say, you know?" There were times that she had gotten so shy that she couldn't even speak.
Another smile spread on her face. It did seem rather interesting, taking lessons with the swan. She had refused Yourie's request partly because she didn't want to be alone. Her lips tightened into a small frown. Those people weren't nice to Emi? It mustn't have been easy for her. "I could try." She supposed she would see if she could develop an interest for it, just like reading.
"Don't cry anymore. You look pretty when you smile. Really."
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:40 am
Emi wasn't even sure why she was crying. She was overwhelmed by the newness of it all and... hey, she still didn't know why she was crying. She hadn't cried when Keivlos was mean or when Rakha, for all his well intentions, talked a little bit down to her. This girl was being nice and Emi was crying as if she just yelled at hers.
"Amphitere." Emi said finally, scrubbing at her cheeks until they shone a soft pink. Her head lifted, offering the girl a small, wavering, genuine smile. "They're supposed to be really pretty. That's what I heard, anyway. I. Uhm. I want to meet her. Him?" She faltered a bit, looking down for another quick moment.
When Emi next spoke, her words were small but no longer sad. "I'm sorry. I don't mean to cry. It's just.. public and new people and.." A sniffle. "And you're so nice, I just wasn't sure what to do. I'm supposed to be more like you. But.." Another smile, a tiny peek, "If you come to my ballet classes, I promise not to cry there?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:06 pm
"Mine's a brass." Alora offered, feeling that it was polite to tell the other hers as well. "I heard they talk a lot." A little amused grin spread on her face. It was rather shocking, as Yourie said, to be assigned a talkative dragon when she was so quiet, but she guessed it was for the best. Well, to whoever had planned this.
"I...know." The dove assured Emi she knew exactly what she was talking about. Heck, there were some times she was so terrified of strangers she wanted to fly away, or even burst into tears. Blue eyes blinked, a little surprised at Emi's invitation. "I guess that would be okay. And... I think you would dance really well." An encouraging smile was flashed at Emi, and Alora had the desire to hug the girl, but she restrained herself. They had only just met, after all.
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:32 am
Brass talk a lot? Emi filed that away under the document of 'Random Tidbits to Remember' inside of her head as she smiled back at the other girl. To see Alora smiling cheered her up quite a bit, as did talk of dragons and dancing and - well, the other girl was just nice. Other children reacting badly to her - one boy in particular - had left Emi a little floundering on what to say and when.
"Amphitere's are-" Emi paused, her little face going blank for just a moment. "...Long. And they don't eat Maidens? But talking sounds better then long." She gave a firm, decisive nod (for her, anyway) at that statement and her wings fluttered.
"Uhm.. Then.. I remember the number of my dance studio. It's nice." With the conversation away from their mutual social stunting, the swan was a bit happier, a little calmer - even though she was fidgeting slightly. "I could give it to you?"
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