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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:51 pm
Kirby had been charged with babysitting Maira for the day. In his own educated opinion, he wasn't half-bad at it. He'd only lost her twice, and the second time she'd been stuck in a tree so she hadn't really gone anywhere, right?
"How's that ice cream treatin' you, Maira?" he asked as the pair walked on the outskirts of the pond in the park.
"It tastes like snow if snow was chocolate," Maira said, licking her sticky fingers. "I bet this is how the moon tastes."
Kirby just nodded. Yep. Whatever you say, kid.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:30 pm
[lolz maira's great xD] Not having been exposed to much of the world, Alelisa had not been prepared for the child she would meet on this very day. Happily splashing about in a pristine pond, she sat atop her clam as she pretended she was a swan bathing itself. Marina simply wrote away in her journal, as she quietly sung a tune to herself.
The two were in a world all their own, and were not expecting anyone to join them on their quiet summer afternoon.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:40 pm
"Kirby," Maira said eventually as they settled into the grass next to the pond. "There is a fish-girl in the pond."
Kirby, who had manifested a newspaper and was currently flicking through it, gave a grunt.
"Sure there is, Maira."
Skirting lucidity, Maira pointed obstinately at the water.
"There is! She's not all fishy, though, her head is a person-head. She's all pretty and half-fishy."
"Finish your ice cream, Maira. There's no such thing as mermaids. It's probably just some dumb statue they threw in the pond to make it look pretty or something."
Maira pouted outrageously at Kirby's continual disagreement when she knew she was right, and she got up.
"You are a stupid, stupid four-eyed smelly doofus and I don't know why Jess likes you because you are smelly," she said waspishly.
Kirby grunted again, flicking a page of his paper.
Storming off in a snit, Maira hesitated at the edge of the water before tentatively stepping in. She waded in deeper until she was up to her knees, and breathing right on top of the Mermaid.
"Hello," she said, eyes wide and staring. "You're a fishy."
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:58 pm
Alelisa timidly stared right back at the pale girl before her. It was uncommon for others to come into the water to greet her, and she much preferred it that way. She was not used to contact with other children, let alone children who were so... Strange in appearance. But, then again, she wasn't even a human child, so she didn't find use in alienating someone because of how they looked.
"Uhm, well, yes... I-I suppose I am a fish, aren't I? Well, Miss Marina refers to me as a mermaid, but I still have a tail like a fish..." Alelisa digressed, starting to pick at a loose scale of her tail. "Anyways," she said, "What's your name?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:21 pm
Head tilting sharply to the right, Maira regarded Alelisa owlishly.
"You are very blue and very scaly and all snakey-fishie-mermaidy," she said mildly, sitting down abruptly in the water. She was a skinny, short creature, and the water rose near up to her collarbone. "Are you like th' mermaidy-fishlady from the story about a fishlady? 'Cause, 'cause if you are, you should kill your prince so you get to keep your legs."
She paused, chewing thoughtfully at her lip and squinting at Alelisa.
"But you don't have the leggies. So don't kill him."
There was a longer pause.
"I'm a Maira."
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:47 pm
A... Maira? Alelisa had never heard of such a species, nor had she seen one. Was it like a unicorn? Maira didn't look like a unicorn, not even in the slightest bit. Alelisa, atleast, looked like a mermaid.
She continued to look at her for a long while, as she said nothing and drowned in her thoughts.
"Wha... What's a 'Maira'?" She was intent on finding out what it was, since she had a thirst for knowledge.
In exchange for the question she asked, Alelisa returned with an answer.
"N-no... I am not like the mermaid in the story... I don't have a prince to love and I don't have legs..." Alelisa began to reflect on her life and began to realize how dull she must have seemed.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:48 am
"A Maira is me, I am a Maira," the girl said patiently, twirling a thatch of hair around one finger. "There's rivers of red in my veins and I breathe stars. And sometimes I play Yahtzee, and I win all the time because the numbers talk to me but not always, sometimes I win 'cause Jess lets me."
Blinking like an owl, Maira reached up and poked Alelisa in the nose.
"You don't need legs," she said importantly. "Fish don't have legs and you're a fish so you don't need them. Unless you want to dance, 'cause then you'll have trouble unless you can bounce like a pogo stick. Or a bunny. You're a rabbit, not a fish."
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