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 Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:54 pm
 At just a few minutes to 3:00, it was a picturesque afternoon in the dried, grassy clearing. The warm sun heated the wafting breeze just the right amount, the birds were singing, and a few crickets accompanied them. However, this tranquil scene was disturbed by a pacing green Namir with peculiar blue swirly patterns. It had been a massive hassle from him to transport the peach iced tea and ice here as he had no hands. In the end, Kel had ended up bribing his human for assistance. At first he asked only very reluctantly, and he was downright shocked when she initially refused.
"Only if you let me hug you at the end of the day," She had said. With great indignation, Kel consented and lead Kary to the meeting place. They brought three bowls, two empty and one filled with ice, and a sun tea jar filled with the light brown, transparent liquid. There was a little lever on the jar that one could operate without thumbs. The Namir was internally grateful that his human liked sun tea.
Now, he sat a little nervously next to the bowls and the glass jar, waiting for Healer to arrive. Kel sighed loudly, almost annoyed, and shut his eyes to think. 'C'mon man, no need to be nervous. This is Healer we're talking about. She's awesome. You don't have to worry about embarrassing yourself...' Kel opened his eyes again with a determined expression and stared forward intently.
"GAH, THIS ISN'T WORKING!" He yelled, jumping up and shaking his head. 'Relax, man, relax!'
Meanwhile, a certain near-nekkid froggie lady watched from her perch in a discreet duck blind hidden behind a line of trees quite far away from Kel. “I wonder if Emmy will find me here…” She muttered from behind her spiffy binoculars.
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:27 pm
 Sailor Star Healer was currently late for her rendezvous, and she blamed it all on her human. She had tried to sneak away to avoid attention, but it didn't pay to have adopted siblings who were also cats. After that fiasco had been sorted out, she'd ended up loudly leaving instead of quietly slipping away.
Not to mention, she'd been taking any extremely roundabout route to shake the tail she could feel following her. All this would have usually put her in an extremely bad mood, save for the fact that she was on her way to meet a friend. One year in Namiah, one friend. It still felt wrong, like she was missing a sister . . . She shook her head. Try as she might, she couldn't remember.
Healer was just approaching the clearing, satisfied that she wasn't followed, when she heard Kel's yell. "What is not working?" she asked dryly, glancing around his preparations. "It all seems quite impressive," she raised an eyebrow questioningly. "And in order."Tech was a wonderful thing. The near Sephiroth lookalike hadn't needed to come within a thousand feet of Healer in order to follow her. She patted her watch-like device, sighing happily. Which, of course, is when she tripped. Over a hill that hadn't been there before. And of course, when she tried to catch herself with her wing, she overcompensated and crashed straight into . . . Nothing? Blinking, she patted the cloth she seemed to have landed on. "Um . . . Knock knock?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:07 am
Kel jumped and whirled around as Healer snuck up on him. He didn't hear her approaching. He never heard her approaching. Deep purple eyes returned to their non-shocked width as he recognized the silver haired Namir.
"In a past life," he asked drolly with a vague grin, suddenly relaxed and at ease, "did you happen to be some sort of ninja assassin?" Kel didn't comment, or even really notice, Healer's tardiness. He'd been too wrapped up in his anxiousness which was now conspicuously absent. "Disreguard my previous outburst, it isn't relavent to anything right now. Here, take a seat." Kel gestured to the flattened out grass around the three bowls and the jar, laid out in a manner implying two seats on either side of the ice bowl with the sun tea jar to the side. He had the forethought to smooth out the grass for comfort before Healer arrived.
"I got peach," he said. "It's supposed to have been made with real peaches, but I'm not a hundred percent on that. However, I tried some early and it tastes like it's real."
WHUMP.
Kel's ear flicked back and he turned his head. "Did you hear something?"
"Sonnuva-mrrf!" Fortunately for the three of them, Kary's Gwee muffled her yelp so it would not carry far. Poking her head out from the camo flap of the duck blind, she glared up at Emmy before she realized who it was. "Oh, hey Emmy! ... You landed on my head." She went from perky to dead pan in half a second flat. Changing emotions again, Kary spoke. "Come to join me in spying on our Namrah's little tête-à-tête?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:40 am
"Yeah," Healer nodded distractedly, Kel's question conjuring up a thousand different images that made no sense. "Something like that." She shook her head slightly, focusing on the present. "A . . . seat?" A quick glance in the direction he gestured allayed her confusion, and she started walking towards one of the areas of smoothed grass.
She smiled a small bit at Kel's talk of tea. "That is most . . . considerate of you. Thank you."
Her ears flicked towards the sound as well, and she answered Kel, sounding vaugely confused. "Yes . . . but I am uncertain what it was." She shrugged, "Perhaps it is nothing important?"
Emy scowled at Kary, purely for appearance's sake. "Sorry, if I as able to navigate correctly, I wouldn't have run into your . . . thing . . . in the first place!" She paused for a deep breath, then continued on in a much calmer tone. "Besides, I didn't know your head was there." She quickly lost her cold face and quite visibly perked up at the mention of spying. "Spying? My favorite activity!" she giggled, clapping her hands, childlike. In fact, it was so realisticly childlike that if her cosplay had been much more accurate it would have transcended from childish to creepy.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:42 am
"You're welcome," He said with a grin, a respectable amount of glee showing through, then taking a seat himself. "Yeah," Kel started again, "It was probably just some teens playing. With all the rambunctious and destructive Namrah in Namiah, I'm surprised I don't hear more explosions. Allow me." With that, he pushed Healer's bowl over to the side of the ice bowl. Carefully, he tilted the ice bowl with his free paw so a few (somewhat melted) ice cubes fell in. Then, he pushed the bowl over to the sun tea jar, and with a little difficulty maneuvered the spout over the edge of the bowl and depressed the lever. The liquid poured quickly, in no time making the ice float off the bottom of the bowl. Before it was too full, Kel pulled the bowl away and carefully nudged it back to Healer. 'Whew!' He thought, with good reason. The green Namir had practiced that action for a while earlier today with water instead of tea before finally getting it right. Kel then repeated the action for his own bowl, but this time he almost tipped over the ice bowl. Luckily, he managed to save it, so no ice was lost.
"This," Kary hissed, eyes in slits, "is a duck blind! My father's, I'll have you know, and I shall not have you calling it 'thing'! Her name is Shaniqua." Kary's Gwee hit her over the head with its tail in an attempt to get her to focus. "Oh, right! The spying, here, here," Kary beckoned Emmy to come under the camouflage flap of the duck blind. She picked up her binoculars and looked back at their Namrah. "Aww, how cute, he's pouring the tea. He thinks he's people."
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:55 pm
Healer smiled dryly. "It could just be you are not in the right spot for hearing such things." She had certainly heard quite a few explosions recently. Teens these days. She watched, impressed, as Kel poured the tea without spilling anything. She smiled slightly when he almost tipped over the ice bowl, but didn't say anything. After all, if she had been the one serving, she probably would have made quite the mess by now. For some reason she was exceedingly bad at things that required hands, even more so than her adopted siblings. She frowned, lost in thought, staring blankly at her tea.
Emy rolled her eyes. "Whatever your 'goose see' thing is, it's not as important as-" she blinked as Kary changed the subject. "Right, that," she continued, hopping under the flap and casually snagging Kary's binoculars. "Hmm. Well, he is people, kinda sorta taken in a certain light . . ." she paused a few moments before continuing calmly. "I have no idea what I was getting at. Ooo, he almost screwed up."
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:51 am
"That's entirely possible," He said. Through some stroke of monumental luck, the area Kary had designated to build her strange, underground home in was surprisingly quiet. Even the ruckus from inside the teenage girl's dwelling did not reach above ground. There were never any non-family Namrah snooping in the area, probably because since the house was not visible there was nothing to pique their interest. Kel noticed the blank frown on Healer's face. "You seem a little distracted. Is there something the matter?" Kel would have asked her if something was wrong with the tea, but he had a feeling that wasn't it.
Kary would have stated outright that that was the worst pun she'd heard all day, but she was distracted. Oh well. When Emmy snagged her binoculars, Kary broke out the auxiliary pair. For some reason, the nekkid froggie lady was always well prepared, must be from being a Girl Scout drop out. "Yeah, that happens to me, too. You start a sentence Namrah and then somehow end up talking about Portuguese rice pudding." Kary had no idea if there was such a thing as Portuguese rice pudding. "He practiced on my front lawn for like... two hours this morning. It was pretty funny. He swore a lot." She added with a grin.
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:20 am
Healer blinked, jerking her gaze up to Kel's. "No. Nothing is wrong," she replied, trying to focus more on the present. These random flashbacks were annoying, but they weren't wrong, exactly. She wasn't sure quite what they were, but she did know that they were not something to be thought about on a friendly outing. Which reminded her. Tea. Tea she wasn't quite sure how to drink politely. This could be a problem.
"Entertaining, if somewhat annoying," Emy stated absently, currently preoccupied with watching through the "borrowed" binoculars. "Did you have a camera?" she added with more interest; watching people practice things they weren't yet good at was always nice. She winced when she saw how spacy Healer was acting, not a normal event for the prim and proper Namrah. "I should just buy her the anthro berry and get it over with," she muttered, adjusting the focus.
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:52 am
"Oh, okay," Kel said, not entirely convinced she was telling the truth. Healer has a way a of speaking the made him think that both she was telling the truth and keeping something from him at the same time. She had alluded in a previous conversation that despite her normal reserved nature, occasionally she would blurt something out without realizing it. Kel briefly wondered if that could be the source of her current displeasure. Then, another thought crossed his mind. Which was considered the polite thing to do in this situation, wait for Healer to take the first drink, or take the first drink to show it wasn't poisoned or something? Dang olde time days in which the latter would be probable. So... Kel just ended up sitting there.
The nekkid froggie lady, who was now some sort of scantily clad purple elf-troll lady, sighed behind the auxiliary binoculars. "No, the camera's batteries were dead. They're back home charging." Letting the binoculars hang around her neck, Kary turned about and busied herself with setting out a bit of dragon food for her Gwee when she noticed it wasn't around anymore. "Oh yeah, I changed my avie." With that, Kary went back to spying. "He's just... sitting there."
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:16 am
"Mmm," Healer mumbled in reply, staring at the tea. After a moment, she noticed peripherally that Kel wasn't doing anything either. New etiquette nightmares danced through her mind: Was he waiting for her to take a drink first? Was her taking so long some weird reflection that hinted she didn't find the refreshment pleasing? Hell with it, she thought uncharacteristically, someone had to do something.
Delicately, she swirled her paw through the tea, brought it to her mouth and licked the sweet drops off. The taste of peaches lingered on her tongue, just the right temperature. "This," Healer stated, "is exquisite."
"You still use batteries? I haven't changed mine in years." Everything electronic in her electro-vicinity knew it had darn well better work, or Emy would know why. She waited, spying patiently. "She's just sitting there to- wait. I think she's doing something!" Something being, taking a sip of tea. "Um . . . does that even count as doing something?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:36 am
A wry smile weaved its way onto Kel's face as he seemed to be highly amused by something. The corner of his lip twitched and his shoulders began to move up and down as he pushed a paw over his mouth and bit back laughter. Soon, he couldn't hold it back and Kel turned away as a repressed yet incessant chuckle escaped him. After a few moments of laughter, he managed to speak. "I, heh, I'm sorry but, heh, I just wasn't expecting you to do something adorable like that!" After he finished his sentence, the giggling trailed off and he regained his composure.
Kary stared shocked through the binoculars. "Holy crap, either he just did something genius or incredibly stupid, and I have a feeling it was the later." There was a pause. "HE FORGOT TO CHECK FOR POISON!"
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:55 am
Healer stared blankly at Kel's fit of hilarity, before smiling slightly. "I am not not sure whether I should be insulted or not," she commented dryly, flushing lightly. He thinks I am adorable! her mind sang over and over again, along with accompanying music that made her flush deepen, along with distracting her enough that she didn't notice that she had said the words aloud.
Kary's shout had Emy jerking in shock for a moment before pouncing her and slapping a hand over her mouth. "Shhh!" she hissed, balancing the binoculars in one hand. "Healer has freakishly sensitive hearing and we're not quite far- Oh. False alarm." Even viewed through the binoculars, Healer was quite throughly distracted, enough that she probably wouldn't have heard a pink elephant tap dancing. Then Kary's words filtered through her brain. "Doing someting stupid doesn't surprise me, but isn't checking for poison a bit . . . Fourteenth century?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:03 pm
Though his laughter had died down, the somewhat foolish grin remained. "I, I'm sorry but I wasn't expecting you to drink the tea with your paw. The unintentional cuteness of it caught me off guard." The grin flashed charmingly for a moment before Kel dipped his head to his own bowl and lapped the tea in a cat like manner. The action caused small ripples in the surface and made the melting ice cubes bob up and down. The tea tasted perfect to him, though whether it actually was or if outside forces were just making it seem that way is up to debate.
Kary stared up at Emmy with squinted yellow eyes. After a few moments of silence, she spoke. "Murf ma mich." Befuddled at her own muffled words, the tattooed purple elf troll lady remembered the cosplayer had her hand over her mouth. Ripping it away, she reiterated. "You're a witch."
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:26 pm
As soon as Healer realized she was grinning in reply, she tried very hard to stifle it to her normal slight smile, only partially succeeding. "Glad I could amuse you," she said dryly, swirling her paw through the tea again. Drinking like a cat cut into her peripheral vision just enough to make her nervous.
Emy's mouth quirked up in a half smile as she replaced her hand on the binoculars. "No, I'm insane," she corrected. "But close enough."
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:56 pm
Lifting his head to gaze upon her again, Kel spoke. "Aww, you say that like being amusing is a bad thing. Well, I suppose in some senses it might be, as in if someone was a laughing stock..." He trailed off and paused, and it occurred he should probably reassure her that he didn't think of her that way. In a calm, slow tone, Kel let himself begin to say what he thought of her. "But you're not like that at all. You're witty, and you've got a euphonious delivery when you speak kindly. It- I always feel a bit honored when you compliment something. Even if it's not about me, it just sounds so elegant."
Had she still been the paranoid purple elf lady, Kary would have started looking for holy water anyway. However, it was Christmas in July time, so the newly donned Jingle Hoe outfit caused her to be quite spazzy. She'd picked up her auxiliary binoculars and started spying again. "Oooh, I thought I saw him leafing through a thesaurus the other day!" She said, now chewing chicle loudly.
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