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 Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:13 pm
For every scoop of sand she took out of the earth, her sand fortress grew- slowly but surely. Ari dug her shovel back into the wet sand and continued her pile. It was a decently nice day to dig holes for a young child; it was warm enough to not get chilly, and wet enough to get messy, fast.
Making a mess was definitely one of Ari's hobbies. Anything from mud to paint to jello would find itself on her hands, her face and her dress. She often played in the field behind her house.
"Neighborhood cats use that box as a communal toilet" didn't mean much to her and when she was out back, she was the princess of a beautiful castle made of sand, with a moat and a dragon. She was the giant dragon that knocked it down with it's sharp claws and breath of fire. She was the townspeople who built it back.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:24 pm
Victoria hadn't met many children yet. She was still fairly new to the world, and still very limited on what she was and wasn't allowed to do. She had been limited due to her abilities to make others cater to her whims with use of her charms that were well beyond her years. Not to mention she preferred to listen to her father play while her mother danced. Not that she had shown it yet but she knew she could play it back- she was just waiting on a violin.
She took in a breath of the park air and coughed. Whether it was the over whelming smells or just over doing it she wasn't about to do it again. Her eyes roamed over the playground. She was unsure what to do. But, then she spotted it- a broken shovel!
With her father completely unaware of her mission (and incapable of comprehending that she could get into trouble in under a minute) she marched over to the sandbox to snatch it up.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:52 pm
Ari glanced up and saw a girl walking towards her in a determined pace. Maybe it wasn't a girl. Maybe it was a robot. Maybe it was a giant castle-destroying monster! As she let her imagination get the best of her, she grabbed a stick from the edge of the sandpit, threw a bucket onto her head as a helmet and stood in front of the castle in defense.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:47 pm
Taken back by the other child's display Victoria stopped just short of the sandbox. She glanced from the girl to the sandbox. There sat what she considered a lump of sand. She was perplexed as to why anyone would be defending that lump of sand. And, she wasn't about to let anyone get between her and the object she desired... She shrugged her shoulders and took the last couple of steps between her and the sandbox.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:03 pm
As the girl approached the sandbox, Ari drew her wooden makeshift sword. She glared at her with curiosity more then anger or threat, and wiggled her eyebrows at her new visitor. She cautiously lowered her stick slightly and pointed her chin into the air.
"Friend or foe!" she questioned in an almost shriek. Checking her visitor out, she didn't seem too harmful, but you never know when anyone could be a shape-shifting alien or have invisible claws of steel. She stepped back and with that she managed to land her foot in the safety moat (on hindsight, she would say that atleast it had worked!) and found herself landing butt-first right on top of her castle!
She stared up wide eyed for a second before dropping her sword and bursting into giggles.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:15 pm
The girl was certianly animated- Victoria knew that much, past that she was clueless, but she didn't express it.
She pushed the curls from the front of her face as she bent over to collect the broken shovel. It was at about that time that the girl had fallen into the pile of sand. When the girl burst into a fit of giggles she was sure that it wasn't worth protecting.
As she stood up, broken shovel in hand, she giggled. She didn't want to come off as rude (after all she was told to play nice and make friends).
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:37 pm
Ari looked up at the new girl holding her broken shovel and tilted her head. She hadn't seen this girl around the area before. She didn't seem harmful (though you never know where monsters are hiding) and Ari thought she might be a delightful addition to her castle. They always needed a pet cat or a slave or something. She decided to take the initiative to introduce herself and she pulled herself out of the pile of sand. Brushing her hands off, she grinned at the stranger.
"Hi, I'm Ari!" she projected, holding up a hand for a high-five.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:50 pm
Victoria glanced at the girl who had called herself Ari. This girl couldn't be all that bad, after all she wasn't trying to take the broken shovel from her. The only thing that concerned her was amount of dirt.
"I'm Victoria," she giggled as she offered her free hand.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:05 pm
Ari laughed and slapped Victoria a high-five before returning to her games in the sand. "Okay so, we need to build a castle" she said matter-o-factly. She started mushing the sand into a pile, digging for wet sand.
"If we put it here then I can be the queen and you can be my pet and we can live happily ever after." she stated.
"Also, you can feed my grapes, like royalty."
Ari paused for a moment, considering it, before chiming up "Or we could be sister princesses who have a magical fairy who does everything."
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:31 pm
'Well that was interesting,' was Victoria's first thought. It hadn't exactly gone as she had planned. A simple handshake would have sufficed.
She looked around for something to sit on. The thought of sitting directly in the sand caused her to shiver in displeasure. Dirt was one thing, getting dirty was another. It would ruin her new dress!
"I'm better than a Princess... I'm a Lady," she boasted. Her head tilted slightly as she showed her nose. "And, Ladies don't get 'dirty'." The word dirty was a heavily accented.
"Um, you can have the castle all to yourself," she said not out of generosity. She simply didn't want anything to do with it. She had her shovel and she was happy enough at the moment. Anything to get out of being dirty.
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