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 Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:53 pm
Seung grumbled down at her worksheet before tossing her pencil in the fireplace. Calcifer shot the mothfish a grouchy look. Seung stuck her tounge out at him before pouting at her homework. Why did Oma have to give her worksheets when she was heading to the HQ? In both languages no less.
She sighed, leaning back against the couch to look at the ceiling. Not that there was anything better to do around here. She had to pick the one day no one was around. Lucky for her.
The Fa'e looked back at the papers before grabbing Mishy by the tail. "Mishy, do you want a snack?" she asked the plushie. A pause. "You'd like some cookies?" Another pause. "Well of course I want cookies too! Weren't you going to share with me?" Silence. "I thought so. Lets go find some." She flounced into the kitchen, Mishy flopping at her side.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:05 pm
Quinn tugged her ear out of her charge's pudgy grasp for what felt like the 400th time in the short duration that they had been together. She had to admit, it was probably a cute habit, to outsiders, but from her perspective, it just hurt. The child giggled at what she thought was a game and reached back for the ear, babbling happily to herself.
Quinn lifted Adelaide out of the sling and resituated her so that Quinn's ears were out of reach. Addie had a momentary urge to fuss, but ceased when she saw the door to the now familiar HQ. Quinn had been coming here regularly in search of Adelaide's mother, or at the very least, in search of someone who might know her.
Letting herself in, Quinn called, "Anyone here?" half-heartedly and settled herself on the couch to wait.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:26 pm
Seung reached into the cabinet, standing on tiptoe to try and grab a package of cookies. She just got the tips of her fingers on it when the door opened. "Aigu!" The mothfish jumped back guiltily, windmilling at the counter's edge. She remembered about flying belatedly and let herself drop, scrunching herself into a ball just in case her hovering decided not to work.
No pain, no crash of mothfish meeting kitchen floor. Just a soft fwump followed by a crinkly crash. She opened an eye carefully to see she was floating about half a foot away from the counter. Mishy wasn't so lucky, on the floor with the cookie package on top of him. "Learn to fly sooner, then you won't fall," Seung scolded him. The plushie didn't reply. "Fine, stay there then."
The girl waved her arms and wings again, pushing against air toward the door. "I'm here!" she called to the unfamilliar voice. Seung quickly lost height as she got into the common room and set her feet in front of her to land. "I'm Seung! What's your name?" she aske the unknown woman on the couch. Then she noticed the bundle in her arms. Was that...another Fa'e?
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:10 pm
At sound of commotion in the kitchen, Quinn leaned over on the couch trying to see into the door. Her eyes widened at the sight of the hovering child and she snickered quietly as she watched her flail. It was obvious that she was perfectly safe and it was comical.
As the girl approached the common room, Quinn straightened her body and her face, not wanting to be caught snooping or snickering. She smiled as Seung addressed her and freed Adelaide from the sling, arranging her so that the babe could see the newcomer. It was clear from Seung's looks and location that she was of a kind with Addie. Perhaps this waif would know the baby's mother and would be able to help Quinn locate her.
"Hello, Seung. I'm Quinn and this is Adelaide," she replied, bouncing the dark-skinned baby on her lap, to the baby's great enjoyment.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:46 pm
Seung plopped onto the couch before remembering to say "Nice to meet you." She quickly turned her attention to the baby, not really sure what to say to Quinn. "Anyong Ade...Ad...Adel," the mothfish struggled over the baby's name. Why did everyone have to have long names with hard syllables in them? "Aderade?" she managed to finish, coming as close as she could with her accent.
The little girl looked kind of frightening to Seung, darkskinned with bone-like markings all over. But she looked so happy, and how scary could a baby be? The mothfish grinned and waggled her ears at the baby.
"Aderade is Fa'e?" she asked Quinn, more of a conformation than an actual question.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:56 pm
Quinn laughed light-heartedly at the child's pronunciation troubles. She was awfully cute and Quinn was laughing more at her charm than her mistake. "Ad-el-aid," she spoke slowly, for Seung's benefit. "But you can call her Addie, if that's easier."
Addie reached her chubby hands towards Seung's waggling ears, wanting to give them a tug and perhaps a taste. Quinn chuckled and placed the tot on the couch between herself and Seung. "She has a thing for ears, it seems," she confided, giving her own a bit of a rub. "And yes, she is a Fa'e. "
It occurred to her then that this child might know Addie's mother, so she added, "I met her mother here yesterday. She's got long dark hair and wears bangle bracelets... and she said something about Kali... do you know who I'm talking about? I never got her name, which is weird, since I got her daughter..."
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:15 pm
Seung sighed in relief. Nicknames were so much simpler to pronounce. "Addie's shorter, it's easier." And it didn't have that pesky "L" sound.
She leaned down a bit so Addie could take a closer look at her ears. They were a bit more rigid than human ears and she doubted the little girl could do anything to them. But they tweaked up at Quinn's comment. She wasn't sure she wanted to let the baby near hers then.
"Thought so," she replied to Quinn. Why else would an odd looking baby be around the HQ after all? The mothfish pondered the woman's question, her mouth pulling to one side of her face while she thought. "Dark hair...Lethe does, but she's too little. Sati maybe? Or Rei." It had been a long while since she had seen either of them, so she wasn't sure about the bracelets. And Seung had never even heard of Kali.
"Sati had a baby inside when I met her! But Rei's old enough to have a baby too. Did she have wings? Or lotsa arms?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:30 am
Nose wrinkling with what she knew wouldn't be a helpful comment, she replied, shrugging, "Um... neither? Just the normal two arms and no wings. But if Sati?" she checked with Seung to make sure she had the name right, "had been pregnant before, maybe she's the right one? Her skin is kind of olive toned and she has almond shaped eyes... if that helps?" Why was making sure that the mother of the baby she had just been given could continue seeing her child so hard?
Addie, oblivious to Quinn's frustration, continued reaching for Seung, babbling incoherently and clapping her tiny hands at intervals.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:47 am
Seung reached her hands out to Addie, wiggling her fingers toward her face.
Seung shook her head slowly. "Sati had four arms and...black skin," she said, her voice trailing off as she looked at Addie. Maybe? "Um, Aboji said he used to have wings and Omoni had long ears, but they had me and now they don't. I do." She pointed at her ears and rustled her wings in demonstration. "So maybe somethin' goes away when Fa'e have a baby and goes to baby."
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:58 am
Addie swung her arms, trying to catch Seung's fingers. She bordered between happy with the game and annoyed at not being able to catch them. Of course, if Seung made it a little easier for her, they would most likely end up in the baby's mouth, as most things did.
Tousling Adelaide's hair, Quinn sighed and said, "I really don't have any idea how it works. I'm rather new to this whole thing. It's just that her mother seemed rather upset at having to give her up and I wanted to make sure that she knew where Addie and I are, just in case she ever wanted to stop by."
Quinn thought a moment more, not wanting to discount the child's theory. "Do your ears and wings look like the ears and wings that... um, is Aboji your father? And what was the other one?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:15 am
Seung nodded. She didn't have much contact with Naia, but she wanted to. She hoped Addie and her mom could see each other. The mothfish grinned down at the baby and swirled her fingers around, using two of them to tap the girl's nose.
"Ye, Aboji's father and Omoni is mother. Oma's my Guardian." She looked back at her wings, trying to compare them to a picture she had of Anen from before she was hatched. "Kinda...his were bigger, but he's alot bigger than me. And they didn't have blue, but they look alot alike. Omoni's ears had some spiky things I think. But simi...mostly same," Seung changed the last word, deciding she didn't feel like managling her way through the sounds.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:24 am
Addie laughed as the fingers tapped her nose and she reached for them, both with hands and mouth.
"Well, from what you've told me, it's most likely that Sati is Addie's mother. I wrote my information down yesterday on that piece of paper," she indicated the note on the coffee table, "so hopefully she'll see it and contact me." Quinn took in the room, really seeing it for the first time, since yesterday had been filled with such strange occurrences.
"So... is this like, the Fa'e house? Or do you all just hang out here? How many of you are there, anyway?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:43 am
"This's HQ. I think some live here, through the fireplace and upstairs." She pointed at Calcifer before making a "poof" motion with her hands to Addie, bringing them in reach of the chubby hands. "Other Fa'e come around sometimes, easier to meet Fa'e here." Seung thought about how many other Fa'e she met or heard about. "Not sure how many of us. Couple dozen?"
"Maybe post the note up? So she could see it better and it won't get lost. I think there's a board somewhere."
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:52 am
Addie wrapped her fingers around Seung's, shaking them back and forth and pulling them towards her ever curious mouth.
"A couple dozen? Wow!" Quinn had no idea that there could be so many, or even, really, what the Fa'e were. She was flying by the seat of her proverbial pants, here. "I thought of that yesterday, but I didn't want to snoop around someone else's house. If I find a board, I'll be sure to pin it up. I brought some tape today, so I could at least tape it to a wall." She chuckled at the interaction between the two children. "You're pretty good with babies. Do you have any little brothers or sisters?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:08 am
"Maybe. I just know there's alot. Anyway, Addie's Fa'e and your her Guardian, so you can snoop. Can even live upstairs for awhile if you want." Seung was a little wary of letting the girl get her fingers in her mouth. Not wanting baby drool all over her hands, she pulled them back a bit and started clapping, singing a Korean rhyme.
"Eh? I am?" She looked up at Quinn, surprised. "I'm the littlest, got big brother, kind of. And cousins, but they're older."
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