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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:29 pm
Soho fluttered into the shop, looking oddly alone for her. Neither Silva or Aleric were with her, for the first time in... well, since the little cupcake incident. She wasn't sure she liked being so alone, actually. It was... lonely.
But Silva was out hunting and Aleric was somewhere off learning to play his flute again. And Ice and the others were still obsessed with that darn baby and his metal thingy. The little red and black feien sighed, much put-upon by that fact. Dee had sworn she was still adorable, and that helped somewhat, but she wasn't getting the attention that she was used to! Not even from Nick and Nack!
So here she was at the shop, needing attention. Because she obviously wasn't going to get it at home! Stupid baby. Cute... yes, but stupid nonetheless!
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:26 pm
A brunette woman in her early to mid-twenties shuffled into the shop, looking around with a faint sence of urgency. Her left hand clasped something close to her chest and a peice of paper crinkled in the grasp of her right.
"H-h-hell-ello?" she stammered, looking down at the precious contents of her cupped hand. After a moment of waiting for an answer, she returned her concerened gazes back around the perimeter of the main room. She unfolded the peice of crumbled paper and scanned over it a few more times.
"This has to be the place. Isn't it? Oh please just let this be the right place..." She continued to mumble softly, as if speaking to whatever resided behind the shield of her dainty fingers.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:27 pm
"Hi!" Soho said cheerfully, waving her arms over her head to get the big person's attention. "I'm Soho! Who are you?" She asked with a wide smile.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:38 pm
Slightly startled, the young woman perked her ears up and shot a glance in the perky voice's direction. She squinted a tad, seeing smears of bright red against black.
"Could it be? Another one of his kind?" She took a few steps closer, her eyes struggling to focus on the mess of waving colors.
"I'm not exactly too sure who I am, so why don't we start with him..." Squeezing in a bit closer to the small feien creature, she brought her hand down, away from her chest, and uncupped her fingers. Glints of silverish-white and black peeked out as light slowly flooded her palm.
There lay a mysterious feien with dull, raven-black hair covering the majority of his back. His leather hair-tie had worn out from time and moisture, and his hair was ratty and unkempt. His poor wings were nearly falling apart. His exposed skin beyond his markings was pale and dotted with sores.
"Do you know who he is? All I had was this address to go on..." The lady held up the small peice of scrap paper. "Did I come to the right place? Can you help him?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:41 pm
"Well, no, I've never met him... but I know WHAT he is!" Soho said, moving forward. "He's cute! And a feien, like me!" She said, nodding as if that were obvious. "We come from flowers and have bonds and come in different sizes and colors and wing types... I'm just a juvenile, my bonddaddies are much bigger than I am!"
She paused. "Are you his bond?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:47 pm
"Bond...?" She looked confused. She wasn't even about try to spit the Fe--fei--en--en word out.
"I found him in a box in our cellar of our new house... I didn't really know what to do with him, and the address on this scrap of paper was all I had to go on. Is a bond like his family or a host or something? Doesn't he have someone that was waiting here for him to arrive in the mail?" She didn't quite understand the concept of a "bond". It seemed almost as if she believed he just magically found his way into their cellar and was supposed to "journey" somewhere else.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:51 pm
"Waiting for him?" She asked, completely confused. "I don't think so. I mean, my bond works here and she didn't say anything about something like that..." She was getting worried. "A bond is the big person that a feien lives with. And without a bond the feien could... Oh, you've GOT to be his bond! Please be his bond! I'd take him home with me, but Ice already has three feien and a new baby and a new metal thingy and--" She clasped her hands together, pleading.
"You can't let a cute feien die!!" She finally said.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:59 pm
The woman's eyes nearly crossed as she attempted to follow the pace of the red and black feien's verbal thoughts. "So you mean he doens't have anyone waiting for him to arrive? I don't quite understand... I just assumed that... Well... I assumed that um..." Her gaze trailed down at the feien lying in the palm of her hand. He looked so fragile, and yet so completely beautiful at the same time. "I don't understand any of this. I don't even understand what he is, or why he was in my cellar..."
As her eyes met back with Soho's, she could see the feien was visibly shaken. "Why is this all such a big deal? I'm sure he's got someone for him somewhere. He can't just, be alone, can he? I mean, surely, someone's looking for him... Maybe the old resident of the house just accidentally left him behind. They could come back soon... I'll just leave him here with you."
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:02 pm
"But I can't!" Soho said. "I can't be his bond and my bond can't take care of him! He won't be too much trouble, I promise! Feien are small and don't eat much, and they're good for talking to and listening to music with and--" She paused. "Won't you at least try?" She dropped down, heading for the feien and landing on the woman's hand to kneel over the other feien.
"Mister? Mister, can you speak?" She asked, poking him.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:09 pm
Aude flinched a bit at the soft tickling of the feien's feet upon her skin. She watched in abaited wonder, part of her silently willing the injured feien to atleast acknowledge the other and possibly give some insight to the situation.
The feien's wings jingled slightly as a few of his fingers twitched in Soho's direction. Soft crackling noises were an instant sign that his condition had progressed past only a few days of being bondless. It was all too clear that his bond had been missing a long time. He exhaled slowly and his eyes opened a slit. Everything was a blur.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:12 pm
"Mister?" She repeated again, shaking his shoulder. "Come on, mister, you got to wake up..." She didn't know what to do. "Mister Silva Demon might be able to help... but--" Silva was hunting.
Oh how she wished she hadn't come all by herself! "Please, lady, you have to say he's your feien!" She finally said, close to tears. "If he doesn't have a bond, he'll die!" She was certain of that for some reason.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:05 pm
"But he's not mine," Aude insisted. "I've never seen him before. I just found him in the cellar of my new house. I can't just take something that doesn't belong to me. Besides, I don't even understand what the heck he (or you for that matter) is! How would I take care of him anyways... He's better off here with people who know what to do. I have no clue at all."
She picked the male feien up gently and layed him out on the nearest flat surface. Then she proceeded to shoo Soho off her hand. It wasn't that she was cold and careless, far from it. She just honestly couldn't take on the responsibility of something, or someone, that wasn't hers. It just didn't feel right. Besides, the discovery of this creature in the cellar, and the surreal events at this shop so far, had made her exceedingly more aware of the fact that she had absolutely NO idea what was going on here.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:07 pm
"But you can't--but he--" She took a deep, shuddering breath. "Can you at least tell me where you live?" She finally asked. This was so far beyond her experience...
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:14 pm
Aude looked down at the teeny inquisitor. "Well, I suppose that would be alright, if atleast for the purposes of anyone wishing to inquire about his condition when I found him. Perhaps leaving some contact info, may in some way, help to link him to his rightful owner."
She flipped over the piece of paper that had the Feien HQ address on it, and took a pen out of her bag. A few quick pen-flicks and she was finished.
"There. It's 1592 Forest Edge Drive, right on the outskirts of Barton town." She folded the paper over, enough to make it manageable for the small feien, then handed it to her.
She felt sorry, as it was visible that this feien was troubled by the situation. "Look... I'm really sorry I can't help you out. I'm sure if you turn him over to the proper person, everything will be resolved."
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