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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:12 pm
Eriol pushed the door open to the house softly, hoping not to wake anyone. The hour was later than he had anticipated, so most people were likely to be asleep.
"Eri, sweets, is that you?"
DS rubbed her eyes as she sat up, the thin blanket that covered her legs slipping to the floor as she rose from the couch.
"Yeah..." Shutting the door behind him, he poked his head into the living room.
"Karan have fun?"
"Yeah... and we've got a guest."
Eriol entered the room fully, showing off his company.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:16 pm
Demare's eyes narrowed a little bit as he peered about the room, his wings unwrapping themselves from around his body as he took in his surroundings. Definitely nothing like his own home... but it wasn't so bad, he decided. After a moment, his eyes turned toward the woman by the couch, faintly remembering her as Karan's guardian.
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:24 pm
DS frowned, her hands knitting themselves together in her lap. Yes, she'd seen that one before, many times. But what was he doing here?
"It's nice to see you again, Demare-kun." To Eriol, she shook her head. "What's the story, kiddo?"
Flinching a little at the "kiddo," Eriol shrugged. "He want'd ta come, and the runt wanted him to. Figured it couldn't do any harm, eh?"
Still wide awake and completely overjoyed, Karan's head bobbed enthusiastically, arms still wrapped tightly around his friend.
"No, no harm. You can go get them settled in Karan's room. I'll poke in shortly."
"Mkay." Nodding, Eriol adjusted his grip on both infants and set out for the room in question.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:34 pm
Demare seemed to relax a little once they were out of the presense of the guardian. There was just something about them all... It made him uncomfortable.
Demian, are you all right? Clare asked a little worriedly. The demon was acting a little more calm than usual.
I'm FINE, he insisted, looking at Karan for a moment. And how long is he going to stay attached to me? Geez...
I... wouldn't know. He's only ever touched me once before... and that was a simple hug.
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:47 pm
Karan looked back at Demare and grinned, his grip loosening slightly. He had a friend here. Demare was always cool and they got to play together all night and it wouldn't be boring. And even better, if Demare was here, then the big bad things wouldn't come back. Right? Oc course right!
"Well, here we are squirts."
The room was mostly bare, compared to the others. Plain royal blue paint covered the walls. There was a desk underneath the unadorned window on the back wall, and a cot on either side of the room. One was occupied with a pale, sleeping figure. The other had a ragged blue quilt on top, and a cardboard box atop that was stuffed with pillows of varying designs and sized. An unfinished wooden dresser was crammed into one corner, which held a glass fishbowl and an empty cage.
"Home sweet home," Eriol said sarcastically.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:54 pm
Glancing around the room for a moment, Demare was actually surprised. Did... all bedrooms look like this? Or was his just special? Granted, at home his own room as always containing some sort of creature at all times, all of the pixas, sprockets, and small critters being kept in there. He didn't mind since they were generally quiet company, but this... Karan's room just took the cake for being boring.
His eyes shifted to stare at the sleeping figure on one of the cots, a bit curious as to who it was. Karan had to share his room with someone...? Then again, it wasn't like Demare would have his own room forever, especially once Neko's feien returned home and the baby was born. And what was with the cardboard box??
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:01 pm
"When yer a little bigger, runt, we've gotta do somethin 'bout this room..." It was pathetic, really. Everyone else had decent looking rooms. But then, most of them put the ideas together themselves. This one would shape up soon.
His room, his spot! Karan eyed the room as well, checking the status of it. The strange boy was asleep, but he didn't think he'd stay that way long. No one else around. And there was his box! He tugged Eriol's sleeve, finally releasing the captive arm to point at the box as his intended destination.
"Sure, sure..." Eriol put both Legends onto the cot, Karan inside the box, Demare just outside. "I dunno what we're gonna do with yer friend here, runt, so lemme go ask. Stay put, mkay?"
He patted both of them on the head and all but ran out of the room.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:06 pm
Demare quickly placed his hands on his head as soon as Eriol had left, and it was all he could do not to throw a fit. PATTING ON THE HEAD!! GAAAAAH! He wasn't some lit-- ...Okay, so he WAS a baby, but it was still annoying. Especially after Neko kept patting his head so much when he first arrived here. Stupid... patting...
He blinked a few times as he realized where Karan was, placing his hands on the side of the box and carefully standing up to peer inside. ...This was where he slept?? It didn't look very comfortable... And there also didn't seem to be a whole lot a room in it. Why didn't he sleep in a crib?
"Like?" he asked curiously, quirking a brow. Did the boy like sleeping in the box...?
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:15 pm
"Yesh!" It was HIS box, after all. And he could change it to suit his liking, and hide things in it- which reminded him...
Reaching one hand behind a particularly fuzzy pillow, he pulled out a spiky green crystal, which twinkled in the moonlight that illuminated the room. After patting it delicately, he offered it to Demare for inspection.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:22 pm
Demare looked at the crystal curiously for a moment, gently taking it into his hands to get a closer look at it. There was something... a little familiar about it. A soft aura of power...
It feels like...
Demian... It feels a lot like that crystal we got from Raven. The one that made that dagger.
Did everyone get one, then? I wonder what will happen with this one...
Clare's mention of the dagger made him realize something. CRAP! He left it at HOME!! He sighed a little bit, handing the crystal back to Karan as he plopped down onto his bum on the cot. Great... and he'd wanted to show it off, too.
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:29 pm
"Pweedy?" Of course, it was too late for it to do the cool thing with all the sparkles, but it was still pretty, if a bit pokey.
He dropped the crystal onto the bed and rummaged through his pillows again, this time coming up with a small dragon plush in each hand. Demare had seen these already, but maybe he would want one for the night. Then they could both have one.
Both hands stretched towards Demare. "Tak un?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:49 pm
It was the dragons again. GREAT. ...Well... it was another form of company for him, at least. Reaching a hand up, he took the dragon from Karan's right hand and looked it over carefully before setting it in his lap.
"...Tank you," he said a little reluctantly, his wings drooping down a bit behind him.
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:57 pm
Watching the darker dragon join his friend, Karan hugged the lighter one, still keeping some distance between himself and the toy, and put it aside again, digging once more through the box. There wasn't much left in there, unless he wanted to pull out THAT...
Not yet. He didn't want to get that yet.
Instead, he used the box's edge to pull himself up, grasping for the charms at his side. One of them looked old, and he slid it down the coin-embellished chain. It wasn't that one he wanted to show yet, but the other- the silver one. Clutching at the near-crescent, he held it out, almost knocking himself and the box over in the process.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:05 pm
Out of instinct, Demare rested a hand against the box, as if to keep it balanced. Peering at the silver charm for a moment, his hand absently reached for his own. It looked like...
Carefully, he held up his own pendant, slipping his fingers along the black string until the gold charm was high enough to reach the other boy. Save for the colors, the two pendants looked exactly alike.
"Chandra?" he questioned, wondering if it was from the same person. Why had she given them the same thing...? Or had that been on purpose?
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DivineSaturn Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:14 pm
Karan's eyes widened as the other pendant was brought into view. They were... the same? Almost. The color of Demare's pendant startled the Legend a little, his left eye twitching. The shock only lasted for a brief moment though, and soon he was restored to his normal good humor.
"Moo gihl?" All he knew is that it came from the moon girl. And that he wanted to see her again...
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