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 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:10 pm
As soon as their turn on the karaoke was over, Orli hopped off the stage and took her phoenix friend with her. She had seen her brother go somewhere else and reasoned it was okay for her to run off, too. (No attention was paid to poor Ranza, who would shortly find herself surrounded by total strangers.) And besides, she and Polly needed to talk, and it was noisy and crowded there. Orli hadn't seen her friend in AGES and after the initial mention of pirates and gator-men, she just had to hear EVERYTHING.
She tugged the other child down the beach towards the shallow tidepools and splashed through one out to an 'island' of sorts, where she plopped down and dug her yellow toes into the sand.
"So," she said happily. "Tell me everything!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:15 pm
Polly took a deep, deep breath and started at the beginning, as was only proper. "Well I was bad and mommy didn't like me anymore so she took me to this place and I cried and I cried and then this lady showed up and said I should be happy and then I found myself in a well and there was my daddy!! Now I'm a pirate and live in a ship and climb for fruit and go swimming evvvveryyyy Monday and--and--and it's FUN!"
Then she started panting, having not breathed through the entire thing.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:22 pm
"Cool!" Enthused Orli, whose recent adventures had been decidedly exciting, except... There was that whole bit with the red man and the star people, but she had told Ishi about that and even if she didn't believe magic stopped working if you told, it still didn't do to go around telling everyone and their grandmother about your secret identity.
But, thought Orli, Polly was her best friend! Right? Riiiiiiiight?
She watched her friend pant and waited for her to catch her breath again. Anything worth saying without breathing was a definite ten on the cool scale. Not that Orli was totally clear on what a pirate was, but she knew that they lived in ships and went swimming. Carefully hiding her ignorance behind curiosity, she asked, "What else do you do?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:42 pm
"We dig for shinies!" Polly said, as if it were the BEST job in the entire universe. And for her, it was, because Tock and Jake did all the digging. She just got to hop down into the hole when they found things and inspect them! "But I missed you and Rory and Chris," she admitted. "So now we found a way to come here and see everybody!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:57 pm
"Like Indiana Jones?" asked Orli, getting the completely wrong idea. It made sense to her. Maybe Pirates and archeologists were sort of the same thing. It was all a bit over her head, though being Nahuel's little sister she had of course seen the movies several times. They sort of bored her - more aliens! More spaceships! Less history!
"I missed you, too!" she nodded. "So you'll visit more?" she demanded. "You should come to my house!"
She looked around furtively and then leaned in towards Polly. "I wanna tell you something," she whispered, "But it's a secret."
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:00 pm
"Ooooh, is it like the secret about Uncle Jake?" Polly asked, leaning closer. "Cuz it's a good one but he said that it's annoying."
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:05 pm
"Huh?" asked Orli, confused. She wasn't quite sure what that meant. Well, might as well spit it out.
"Sometimes the red man visits me and he shows me places all over the universe in outer space and stuff and he says I'm a star!" she blurted, and then began to pant. Something cool like that deserved all-in-one-breath status.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:09 pm
Polly blinked. But... if her daddy was a green man, then obviously red men existed, so-- "COOL!" she shouted, clapping her hands. "Is it pretty? Huh? Huh?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:12 pm
Orli nodded vigorously. "Yeah! He shows me galaxies and nebu... nebu... nebulas! And stars."
She paused, pondering this.
"The balls of fire kind, not the glowy people kind," she said finally, "But I get to meet that kind, too."
She thought a moment longer.
"I guess we're kinda like aliens. Like my mom."
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:23 pm
Polly nodded, not really getting the "Aliens" thing since everyone she knew looked different in one way or another. "It sounds fun!" she said simply. "Do you get to go swimming?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:38 am
Orli shook her head. "Not with him." she said. "He takes me at night when I can't sleep. I have trouble sleeping at night - I guess it's cuz I'm a star? We don't swim, but sometimes I get to go swimming with my brother and sister."
"Do you have brothers and sisters where you went off to?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:15 pm
"Nuh uh, but there's lots of kids!" she said. "They're the crew of the Jolly Rodger! They all do what Daddy tells them to, cuz they don't wanna walk the plank!" She seemed to take malicious pleasure out of the walking the plank part. Then she frowned, thoughtfully. "But Daddy uses the plank as a diving board all the time, so I don't think it's as bad as it sounds."
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:40 pm
"Jolly Rodger?" asked Orli, getting lost again. "What's that? Some kinda boat?" She was a bit confused, but it all seemed terribly exciting to her whatever it happened to be. Polly's new life seemed like such an adventure!
"I never get to have adventures," she confessed, a bit frustrated. "Nah takes Ranza places, but he says I'm too little."
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:55 pm
"But you seen space!" Polly said. "It's an adventure, right? And the Jolly Rodger is a ship, not a boat. It's too big to be a boat." It sounded as if that was a very touchy subject for the pirate girl.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:07 pm
Orli nodded, absorbing the information. She hadn't been previously aware that there was a difference.
"I have," she said, "But I can't tell Nah and Ranza that, 'cuz they'd tell Mom. And when grown ups know about magic it stops working."
Even if you could tell your friends about magic, Orli would not flaunt the rule to go so far as risking telling her mother.
"They wouldn't believe me, besides," she shrugged, "But you believe me, right?"
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