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 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:16 pm
Ebony Morgan Dartsmoore was usually a very happy-go-lucky toddler. She behaved herself, was friendly, playful and loving. There was only one thing that could really upset her - the place she had come from, Seven of Seven. She occasionally had nightmares about the place and they'd been more frequent recently. The girl was frightened she'd be taken back from her nice new life and abandoned there, or taken back and locked in a cell for being dangerous. Bailey tended to try and comfort her after these bad dreams, but Dartie had decided something needed to be done.
After many assurances by the older boy that Dartie would never ever abandon her at the place and if she did, he'd come and bring her home, the woman had finally gotten Ebony to come with her. The plan for the trip was to have the child get used to going to the Seven of Seven building with the knowledge that she was still going to come back home from it.
"Do we have to?" the purple toddler asked softly, clinging to Datie's hand with one of her own, and her plush fox with the other.
"Yes. Given what Bailey told me of this place, they're probably going to make you come back for tests and such when you are bigger. If you get used to going there now, and still being able to come home, it might make things easier when you are bigger." the woman explained. "Plus I need to see it so I can take you there and bring you back."
"Kay..." the girl whispered softly as she clung just a bit tighter to the woman's hand, as they approached the front of the Seven of Seven building.
They stood outside of it for a while, mostly so Ebby could get used to being there at all. The child was doing something Bailey had suggested - trying to find something, anything good in the area at all. So far, no luck.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:31 pm
Almas was sitting on the front steps in front of the building, head tilted back as the soft rays of the winter sun fell down upon his scarred form. He was smiling a bit, having found some time off from his normal mountains of paper work, parent meetings, and other random chores that were sent his way being the resident gopher. He was glad to have a moment to breath and a moment away from the other workers of the place, they never looked upon him in a good way.
He was the bosses pet after all i their eyes, the rumors about them were varied, some of them more annoying them others and often he got hostile looks from the staff. Given his position as the one closest to Mr Vampy and being without any skills of his own there were few who thought his position one that was deserved. Not to mention that he was often to bearer of bad news, it would seem the only time he appeared before people were with words from 'on high' and they were rarely pleasant ones. Vampy had better things to do with his time then talk to the staff, that was what Almas was for...
He gave a soft sighing sound, eyes fluttering open and his one good eye found itself focusing on the woman and child at the gate, "Hmmm?" He tilted his head to the side, a thoughtful expression on his face. Were there any Parent Meetings scheduled for today? He didn't think there were but that girl was obviously from here he could tell. He pushed to his feet, his short cut wings giving a little flutter before he walked forward toward the pair at the gate, "Hello and good day." He greeted then when he was within speaking distance.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:34 pm
Dartsmoore nodded curtly at Almas, her face it's usual stiff self.
"Hello." she stated, before giving Ebony's hand a little squeeze to get her to speak.
"H-hi." the child whispered softly, waving a bit at Almas, her wings fluttering a bit. She didn't know whether or not to be scared of him - he seemed kind of nice.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:42 pm
Almas looked at Darsmoore for a long moment, wondering if he had somehow offended the woman before turning his attention to the little one and gave her a smile, "Welcome, are you two here for a Parent Meeting? I wasn't aware there were any today but the information may be in the mess on my desk."
He seemed to get a lot more work then was exactly fair or necessary, people wanting to weigh him down with it to see if they could force him to quit leaving the position as the head honcho's secretary up for grabs.
"Are you meeting with J'her or Colaer? I can see about arranging a meeting but the one with J'her will take more time given her... ahh... nature." He said, reaching into his pocket to get out a card keep to open up the front gate.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:45 pm
"No, we are not here for any meetings. Just to get Ebony used to coming here. She's frightened of this place and I figured it would do her good to get used to coming here with the knowledge that she could come home." Dartsmoore explained, her tone not changing.
Ebby was getting curious now. It seemed the longer she was in a place with someone friendly to talk to, the more at ease she got, so in a way this was paying off.
"Who are J'her and Colaer? And what's J'her's nature that makes her take so long?" the toddler asked, her head cocking a bit to the side as she spoke, a friendly smile upon her face.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:54 pm
Almas relaxed visibly, glad to hear that he hadn't missed an important meeting, "I see. We you are welcome to come in as far as the front yard but we can't allow her inside without reason, I apologize but we don't often have random visitors." He couldn't think of really anyone who would want to come by at random when they weren't required to or being paid for it...
He turned his attention to the little girl as she sent questions his way, "J'her and Colaer are the two who gave us the DNA that resulted in your birth." He explained, "They are the ones that gave you some of your features as well... though you appear to have been influenced more by J'her then Colaer."
"As for her nature she is just... a little to friendly for her own good." He said, not wanting to explain in detail about the demoness to a little girl.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:58 pm
Ebony blinked - though not really visibly, given how her eyes were, but one could see the intended movement in her facial muscles.
"How can someone be too friendly? Being friendly is good." she asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Is it bad that I look more like her? If she's too friendly, maybe that'll make me too friendly too. And that wouldn't be good at all!" the small child's face was starting to scrunch up, her lower lip quivering and her already closed-looking eyes starting to squinch up.
"I don't wanna make people not like me..." Ebby whimpered.
Dartsmoore didn't even bat an eyelash at this behavior. She was more interested to see how Almas dealt with it. He'd done the damage, he'd have to deal with the results.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:04 pm
How did one explain it to a child he found himself wondering... sending a momentary glance over to the woman who was the girl's acting guardian... but she didn't seemed interested in intervening. He gave a little sighing sound, wondering at what sort of guardian they had gotten for this girl if she didn't even want to help with a sensitive subject like this? He shook his head before looking back to Ebony, "I am sure with Colaer's influence you be very good at making friends." He said, giving her a smile.
"Looks aren't everything after all, I am a prime example of that." He assured her, "Just because you look like J'her doesn't mean that you will act like her... after all you don't seem to have her problematic tentacles that most of her other children do."
He was scrambling a bit now, trying to find anything that would cheer the girl back up.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:08 pm
Ebby blinked a bit once more. "So I'll make friends?" she asked, face starting to clear up somewhat.
"Yay!" she squeaked before promptly throwing her arms around Almas's waist and giving him a hug. "Thank you, Mister. You're really nice."
When she'd got through with her childish assault of the Fallen, the girl bounced a bit on her toes, looking up at him. "The tentacles are probla-problo-proble-m-m-matic?" she asked, scrunching her brow as she worked out the word. "The ones I met were nice. Adhi had them, they hugged me."
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:14 pm
Almas looked a little startled at the hug, eyes going rather wide. It wasn't often that he had physical contact with others after his fall from grace and his brother's attempts at 'freeing him from darkness'. The only other person to embrace him like this was Maziel who seemed strangely over friendly himself and Vampy on one occasion which was more possessiveness then it was affection. He gave a soft smile, "Thank you, that is kind of you to say." He murmured, he didn't truly believe her words given all the bad things he'd done in his time but it still sounded nice to hear.
"Yes... some tentacles like to hug to much or to hard or don't want to let go. Those are the problematic sort." He explained, recalling Adriel's far to friendly tentacles and even worse then him was J'her when one didn't have on a mask around her... he shook his head not wanting to think about it.
"So you have met others like yourself?" He asked curiously.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:16 pm
Ebby thought for a few moments, trying to recall her friends. "Yes! I met a few! I met Adhi - she's got pretty tentacoos. And I met Ty - he's got one biiiiiiig eye and pretty arm wings. And I met Mara - she's got head wings." the child explained with a big nod. "They were fun to meet!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:29 pm
"I am glad to hear it." He said, that meant that not only this girl but some of the others as well were making friends and doing well outside of the labs. He knew that the kids didn't like it here, it was often that they didn't want to come back... He was glad that the outside world was better for them then the place they started their lives.
"Is there anything you would like to ask me little one? Things that might help to lessen your fears of coming back here for classes?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:37 pm
Ebby thought for a long while. The things she'd mostly not liked were the techs cause they were mean and the place cause it was unfriendly. Maybe...
"Are there any other friendly people here?" she asked.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:42 pm
Almas did his best to keep a straight face, "Friendly people?" He asked, tilting his head to the side in a thoughtful manner, "Most of the Virtues are quite kind, a couple of the teachers too, Enki isn't so bad if you can deal with his constant chatter." He said listing off those who came to mind that could fall under the category of being 'friendly'.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:51 pm
"Oh. Well that's nice then. Who's Enki?" she asked, cocking her head to the right. "Is something wrong with chatter? I like to chatter."
"Yes but constant chatter means he never shuts up, and that's annoying." Dartsmoore said, the first words she'd spoken in a while. Some things she just didn't like.
"Oh.....that doesn't sound too bad."
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