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 Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:37 am
Another day, another retarded scheme in which to make enough money to eat tonight. Leraje squatted at the edge of a threadbare blanket, idly puffing away at his withered cigarette as he watched the comings and goings of people along the relatively busy street in which he had decided to set up shop. In front of him, several worthless pieces of junk and trinkets had been laid out to display, as if he were selling them. Yet although he had set up a dumb array of obvious junk to catch the eye of people walking by, it was the company Leraje kept that made people stop and notice.
On the mat, just behind the garbage, lay a sleek creature, seemingly streaked carelessly with bright green paint on its fur. It was a large creature, barely able to fit on the dirty rug, yet it seemed not to mind int he least as it lay napping in the sun.
Next to Leraje (and looking quite sulky) was a small child of sorts. What exactly it was one couldn't determine, aside from filthy. It looked like someone had tried to stick a child and a lizard together, glued some feathers on, and left it at that. His little crimson eyes were narrowed into slits as he watched the people passing by, his glare sharply contrasting Leraje's disinterested green one.
"I'm bored," he grumbled, not for the first time that day.
"Tough," Leraje replied offhandedly. "Until things clear out or we get some money, we're going to sit here and wait."
This answer didn't seem to please the lizard-child at all, who chose instead to glare at the furred creature in turn. "How come Cel gets the mat?"
"Because Cel is cute and furry and you are not. People want to pet him, we charge them money. Simple as that. Now shut up and sit still."
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:09 pm
A young woman was heading down the street around this time, not sure what she'd be coming upon. She was lovely, to say the least, with soft curves and large, softly feathered wings upon her back. Her purple skin was covered mostly by a white dress and a blue sweater, that looked a little odd with her short black hair and large gray horns.
Ebony was going a bit out of her way tonight, just exploring this part of the city. She was a dancer in a company that did huge shows with everything from wild tigers, to trapeze artists, to almost naked women, and all for charity. Because of the amount of work that went into the shows, she rarely got downtime where she wasn't practicing or working with one of the many programs at her home. But every now and then, she got a chance like this to come out and see the sights.
Her eyes seemingly blind eyes were first attracted to the furred creature on the mat, as was to be expected, but shortly after jumped to Ferox, who both happened to be speaking and look almost familiar. She knew Enki and his features like the back of her hand and being able to pick out Anani's wingstyle rather fast was also helpful. Sometimes it was hard to tell if other children were from the Seven of Seven Laboratories like she was, but Ferox she could pick out.
"Hello there!" the girl greeted pleasantly, smiling at the "family" as she stood in front of their mat, only partly surveying the items, more interested in the people. It was a good thing she had her purse, though, as she might at the very least want to pet the creature after talking to them.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:33 pm
"Hello!"
At Ebony's approach and greeting Leraje perked up to an almost unnatural degree- something between the point of friendliness out of sheer desperation and the greasiest car salesman one could ever imagine. Was there really much of a difference though? Some would say yes, others no. But that was not important at the moment!
"Might I interest you in some of our not-so-fine wares?" he asked, lazily indicating the assortment of junk before him. "Or would you like to pet Cel here? Its a small fee, but he's quite friendly, I assure you."
One of Cel's long ears twitched to indicate he was not as asleep as he seemed to appear, but the jivvin remained motionless otherwise.
"What about me?" Ferox asked petulantly. He had been sitting here all day too! And how come everyone wanted to pay attention to Cel? Just because he was all fluffy and soft didn't mean--
"Shush," Leraje warned. "You are not profitable. If you're going to sulk, go off to sulk. But stay in my line of sight, you hear me?"
To anyone who had never heard Leraje talk to his child in such a manner, it could be considered shocking and appalling. But it seemed that his sort of talk was commonplace, for Ferox simply huffed out a response before peering at Ebony. "Why are your eyes so funny? And why are you purple?"
"Ferox! Manners!"
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:49 pm
"I'm purple because my mother was purple, and my eyes are funny because my other mother had weird eyes." Ebby said with a shrug, trying to refrain from wanting to deck Leraje. Really, she'd been considering buying something from him till he was a d**k to his son.
"Do you come from a place called Seven of Seven?" she inquired of Ferox, pointedly ignoring his parent, though she was still considering whether or not to pay to pet Cel.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:28 pm
"Oooh."
This answer seemed to placate Ferox, who nodded sagely at the response. A pause, then: "How did you get TWO mothers? I don't even have one! And what's Seven of Seven?" Turning to Leraje, he looked questioningly up at the redhead. "Do you know, Daddy?"
"Its the creepy place."
Leraje's brief answer was enough, for it made Ferox blink, then perk up considerably within the span of a few moments. "Yeah! I'm from there! Are you too?" That would explain much! All the people Ferox had met so far who looked funny had come from there! But still... two mommies. Even his little uneducated mind had problems getting around that one.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:36 pm
"Oh, well I was made in a lab so they just mixed things to make me. It didn't happen naturally." she assured the child, looking a bit confused when he didn't know what Seven of Seven was. However, the response from Leraje eased her worries that she'd been mistaken.
"Yes, I am. I do believe I've met your parents before, and you do have one mother I'm pretty sure - the Abstinence angel is female." she explained with a nod.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:44 pm
Mother? Abstinence angel? Very little of this was making much sense to Ferox, whose young mind had not formed a very clear picture of the contents of the place, other than a memory of bright lights and a vague sense of unease. Well, there was the fact that Leraje had taken him there a short while ago, but his stay had been restricted to a short stay in the front check-up room. Beyond that... He was unaware he had parents from there. He thought he only had daddy, much as the redhead tried to tell him otherwise.
"Oh..." was the only response he could muster in reply. Wait! "You met my parents?" He was unsure if he liked this odd new turn of events. If they were his parents as this purple girl implied, why was he raised with Daddy? Was that normal?
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:44 pm
"Sort of. They're not really "parents" as much as they live at the labs and people make kids from their DNA." she said nervously, scratching the back of her head. "but yes, I've met them both."
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:40 pm
Although he didn't really get what was being said, Ferox listened intently, nodding slowly to hide his poor grasp of the concept. Well, it wasn't like he was completely oblivious-- he had some vague grasp on what was being told, but not so much that he could listen to what he was being told without some measure of confusion.
Oh well. Daddy knew all the answers, most likely.
A questioning glance at Leraje proved that the redhead had decided to sit back and let Ferox and Ebony talk as they wanted, for the redhead had lit a cigarette and was gazing distractedly elsewhere. Ferox shrugged inwardly and then turned back to Ebony, eyes narrowed in curiosity. "What's your name, miss lady?" Asking for names was polite, yes? Leraje only sporadically emphasized manners, and often proceeded to ignore the advice he had doled out immediately after.
"I'm Ferox!" He added brightly half a moment after. "And this is my daddy and this is Cel." As if it weren't obvious enough to determine who was who, he pointed to Leraje and the Jivvin for emphasis.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:03 pm
The girl smiled, "I'm Ebony. It's nice to meet you Ferox." she said, flicking her wings a bit. "Tell me, have you ever met any other kids like you? Who came from the same place?" She always seemed to meet younger kids from Sevens who knew a ton of other people there.
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:20 pm
The girl's politeness seemed to throw Ferox off slightly, who blinked. "Erm..." Daddy was only nice to people like that when he was wanting something. Oh well. She had asked if h had met others like him, which he most certainly had! Okay, so he'd only met a couple, but as Daddy said- Details!
"I met a couple'a other kids from there," he said with a nod. "It was all a long while ago though. I don't remember them too well..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:32 am
"Do you remember their names?" Ebby asked cheerily, "Or what they looked like?"
After a bit, she kept glancing at the jivven on the mat and finally turned to Leraje for a moment, "You said you're charging to pet it?" she asked, her memory a bit foggy. That or there was a sign she couldn't read from here.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:28 am
Ferox frowned, then shook his head. "I dunno their names," he admitted. "But... One of them had funny worm things-"
"Tentacles."
"Yeah! He had tentacles. And black hair. And the other one I remember real good..." A pause. Obviously Ferox did not remember him as well as he claimed, or just had a hard time dredging up details. "He had green hands and hair. And he had a wing! A big red one!"
Now that the attention was back on him for a moment, Leraje straightened up, removing the half-smoked cigarette from his mouth to facilitate talking. "Yep. Its a dollar to pet him. No time restrictions or nothin', and he doesn't bite either."
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:13 am
"Oh, tentacles and black hair? Lots of my friends have those. But only a few of the ones with those are boys, like Adriel and Puck."
The girl pondered for a moment before shaking her head, "Don't know who you mean with the big red wing. No one I know has them."
Ebby nodded, reaching into her wallet to pull out two dollars and hand them to the man before kneeling to pet the Jivven a bit, still smiling up at Ferox. "What do you like to do for fun, Ferox? Do you play games outside?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:57 am
Ferox's little face scrunched up in the fierce focusing of thought. Name? Could he remember? Uuhhhhh... "I dunno," he admitted at last. "If I saw him again I may remember. He had a mommy though...?" Would that help any?
As Leraje took the bills with a falsely pleasant chirp of thanks, Cel rolled onto his back, a smile spreading on his canine features. What a schmooze.
"Yeah! I like to play!" Ferox nodded eagerly. "Me 'n' Cel play out in the lots and playground all the time. Sometimes other kids join in, but usually its just us."
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