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 Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:11 pm
Maira was having a bad day. Not a bad day in terms of getting up on the wrong side of the bed sort of bad, but more like wishing she could shatter into a thousand pieces because the noise noise NOISE and it was so BRIGHT, the bright would eat her up and she would be drowning in light, always and always and she just wanted someplace quiet, oh, just for a moment.
So, Maira was currently curled up on her side like a cat under the mostly-naked boughs of a tree in the park, thumping her head against the ground once in a while and muttering through clenched teeth.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:26 pm
Leeta was having a good day. Not a good day as in her mother baked her cookies and she got a lick from the dog, but more like she was out of the house, playing in a park, and just happened to be standing downwind of everybody there.
That was a good thing. Over the last week while Leeta had been living with Keppit, Ranald and those other strange kids that they called family, she had noticed one thing... people seemed to think she smelled. And the strangest thing was that they all seemed to think different things of her smell. Ranald said it was probably the grossest smell aside from zombies, Nate said she smelled like rotten fruit which wasn't always a bad thing according to him, and Ravi said she smelled good... like he always wanted to smell her and be near her and stuff. She laughed slighty to herself. People were crazy.
Suddenly as she rounded a small density of trees she saw a girl with orange hair, dirty clothes, and bandages banging her head against the ground. Leeta looked down at her own dirty clothing and bandages and smiled again. It was only a few moments before she was withing hearing distance of the other girl... once she was there she waiting patiently to be noticed. When that didn't happen right away, she got down on the ground and put her head down really low so she could try and see the other girl's expression.
"You ok?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:37 pm
"No. Maybe. Maybe later I'll be okay. Not right now."
Maira squinted at her visitor warily.
"You can't have my eye. I'm not giving it to you. You wouldn't want it anyway, I see things that aren't there and things that are and I think the things that ARE there are worse."
She pointed to a jutting root near her head obstinately.
"Sit down and stay. Or don't."
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:42 pm
Leeta frowned at the girl for a second and then raised her hand absetly to her own face, feeling her right eye through the bandage thoughtfully. Then she nodded her agreement "I don't want your eye. You should keep it, you'll probably need it sooner or later." and then she flopped down into the root, not caring if it dug into her as she slid down the trunk into an almost proper sitting position.
She looked at the other girl... headache? Eyeache? Earache? Maybe it was too much to smell... smellache?
"What's wrong? Smellache?" Leeta was finding herself over concerned in the last week with smell.
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:27 am
Maira gave a grunt, curling into a tighter ball as the wind breathed fitfully over her skin. It felt like prickles of ice wanting to burrow into her flesh like a thousand thousand little splinters, to freeze her from the inside.
"No," she said, scooting closer to the new girl, ignoring the odd smell that came from her. "You smell like death, but that's okay. I smell sometimes to, like when I jumped in the mud puddle even after Jess told me not to. I wanted to be a puddle."
She looked up at her visitor frankly.
"Tell me your name. I'm Maira. If you don't have a name I won't give you mine, I like it, and it might make you have bad days."
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:06 pm
Leeta smiled almost shyly over at the other girl. "Leeta. I'm Leeta. And don't worry, I wouldn't take your name. I'm sure you'll need that too every once in a while, and I don't take things that people still need."
She paused a moment to consider the benefits of being a puddle and then realized that if she were a puddle then she'd be gone the next time the sun came out... like today. She grinned up at the sky. "I wouldn't want to be a puddle. They dry up when it's nice outside."
She liked this girl. Mostly because she'd admited that Leeta smelled and also said that it was okay. That made the carrion girl sort of warm inside... in a strange way.
"What are you doing out here?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:56 am
"Leeta," Maira parroted. "Leeta Leeta Leeta. 'kay."
Cringing as the wind tried to stab at her again, Maira rolled onto her belly and smashed an unfortunate beetle into the ground. It flailed under her crushing fingers, then managed to scuttle free. Maira made a face - she'd wanted to smash it.
"Smushin' beetles," she replied to Leeta's question in a weary sort of voice. "Tryin' not to break apart, but it's hard 'cause I really really want to and sometimes I just want to scream and burst, but I can't do it today. I want to."
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:09 am
Now breaking apart... that was something that Leeta instincively knew heaps and bounds about. In the end, everything broke apart and fell to pieces, that's just the way it worked. In fact, she hadn't even felt any kind of remorse or shock when Maria had attempted to crush the beetle. Beetles got crushed. It was possibly the only thing they were meant for.
The screaming and bursting... that was a little foriegn to Leeta, becuase she'd never screamed or burst, and she really hadn't wanted to. Even though she had a rather even look on life, and an unsettling view of death, she was rather shy underneath it all and screaming was one of those things that drew attention to her... so no go.
"Why would you want to scream? That would make everyone look over at you and see you here, and then they'd come..." She paused. "Like me." She wondered briefly if Maria minded her being there after all, but quickly decided to take the other girl at her preivous words and dropped the matter in her head. "And don't worry... someday you'll break all apart and turn into lots of little pieces. Maybe not today... but someday."
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:42 pm
Maira made a face, as though tasting something bitter.
"Because if I don't scream nothing comes out and it all boils up in me and makes me twist and it hurts," she snapped. Her fingers pressed into the frost-rimed ground, making shallow divots. "I don't care if people see I just need to get it out of me before it makes me twist up and splinter and crack even more."
There was an edge of tears to her voice and Maira pushed herself up into a kneel, staring unblinking at Leeta.
"I don't WANT TO," she said, voice raised. "I do, I don't, do, don't, DO, DON'T."
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:38 am
Leeta thought about this for a moment, and responded as objectively as she could. "Maybe you're going to break apart faster than we expected?" Then she got up onto her own knees, matching Maria's stance, and looked the other girl up and down. She did have all the bandages.... maybe she was already falling to peices.
As for this screaming business...
"Do you think it will help? To scream, and then not scream, and then scream, and then not scream... If if will help then maybe you should do it... " She pointed over to the tree. "I can hide back there til you're done and then nobody will see me. But if it's not going to help... I mean, if it will only make you want to scream some more when you're done then maybe you shouldn't do it." She shrugged and frowned at the other girl in confusion.
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