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 Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:41 pm
Ice stepped up to the door of the woman whom Soho had told her about. She had a headache, an almost dead feien in her hand, and two feien sitting on her shoulders. Lord she hoped this worked.
"Push the button!" Soho said, getting off of Ice's shoulder and pushing it before Ice could do as she said.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:34 pm
Aude tucked the last corner of the blankets into the baby's crib and smiled. Bending over, she took the last item out of the "Baby's room" box; a small courderoy bear. She set it down at the head of the crib just as the doorbell rang.
"Just a moment!" she called out in a sing-song tone. A few quick paces landed her out in the hall, and eventually at the front foyer. Her small hands reached for the door, the latch audibly popped open, and she pulled the door towards her. The image on the other door was somewhat surprising.
Aude blinked at the woman, then realized the two feien on her shoulders and the somewhat more familiar feien in her hands. "Hello." Her flat expression morphed into a faint tone of concern. "I suppose you've come here from that address I visited yesterday. Is he doing any better?" Her eyes scanned the weak feien's skin for signs of improvement, and yet she found none. "I'll tell you anything I can remember from the other day. I hope it can help."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:36 pm
"I hope you can help, too." Ice said. "Can we come in? My name is Ice, these are two of my feien, Aleric--" Aleric nodded at this. "And Ruby Soho." She said. "I believe you've met her?"
"Yep, that's the lady!" Soho said.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:41 pm
Aude chuckled slightly at Soho's enthusiasm. "Yes, we've made eachother's aqquaintance. I was happy to find someone there who could deliver him to the proper person." As she got to the word "him", she promptly nodded in the injured feien's direction.
"I don't mean to seem inhospitable, but if you're here to thank me, there's really no need. I only did what was right, and that certainly doesn't merit a trip all the way here just to praise me for that. I would hope anyone else in the same situation would have done as I had."
Aude still stood in to door frame, the door slightly closed. She hoped she didn't seem rude.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:45 pm
"Actually..." Ice started out. "I'm not sure you understand." She hesitated. "This feien doesn't have someone he's going to. At least not that I know of. And I work at the feien shop. And without a bond--a gaian willing to share their life and energy with the feien, he's going to die. So basically, by leaving him at the shop you didn't help him." She said. "At all."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:50 pm
Aude's face went blank. "W-what?" Her head felt light at the thought. She had no intentions of harming him.
"W-well... I mean... I-I-I... I assumed that..." She couldn't find the words to say much of anything. She heaved a deep breath, looking down at the feien.
"I didn't know what else to do. You try finding some strange creature in your cellar. At least he had an address. I did what any decent person would do if they had found a name on something..." All of this talk of bonds and feiens was slightly overwhelming. She still had no idea what any of it meant. Aude just assumed that this "thing" had a home there. How or why he was in her cellar hadn't even been thought of.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:57 pm
"True." Ice said with a sigh. "Most likely his last bond abandoned him when he or she moved. And that means he needs a new..." She stopped, trying to think of what word would make sense. "Owner? Mother? Friend? It's kind of all those things I guess."
"Ice?" Aleric said, making Ice glance over. "Perhaps you should explain how to take care of a feien."
"Half of the time you take care of me, Aleric." Ice said, blinking. Then she looked over at Aude. "You see, feien are like... little people that can take care of themselves to a large degree. They just need to share a home with a human. It's not like a baby or anything."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:02 pm
Aude blinked a few times. It was beginning to make sense. "So perhaps the last owner just left him here?" This probably wouldn't go in the direction Ice or Aleric, or even Soho hoped for that matter. "Well then, maybe I can contact the real estate agent and find out who it was or where they went. Then everything would be alright. It would probably just take a few moments, or days atleast."
Aude stepped back from the door a bit and looked around for the phone in order to call the agent.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:05 pm
"In a few days he could be dead." Ice said bluntly. "And if they abandoned him once they could easily abandon him again." She went on. She was getting irritated. "To give him back to someone that left him in an attic is a form of abuse if you ask me. He's not a toy, he's a living being."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:11 pm
Aude abandoned her search for the phone. "I don't understand what you're asking of me. I've done all I can to help the situation. Can't you just find him a new bond at your headquarters then?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:13 pm
Ice looked at her for a moment, wondering just how to put this politely. "Well..." She said slowly. "We were hoping that you might be his bond."
"Right!" Soho said.
"I'm afraid we can't share our own bond." Aleric said. "Three feien in one household is plenty."
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:17 pm
Aude placed herself back in the doorframe, looking down at the feien she had found. He had been so weak. So sickly. And still, he lay there in Ice's hands, barely moving. "I... I don't..." she stammered. A tear almost came to her eyes. "I'd have no clue what to do for him. I still don't even understand what he is... I mean. How would I take care of him? What does he need? I don't undertand his life, and I certainly don't understand any of this whole ordeal. How could I possibly make a difference in his condition?"
She felt horrible admitting that she had NO clue what to do. She wanted to help in any way possible, but just thinking of taking him in scared her. What if he didn't get better. What if she screwed up somehow and he died...
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:22 pm
"By becoming his bondmate you will save him." Aleric said calmly. When focused he was more logically driven than Ice, even though he picked up on the mixed emotions that the woman was giving off. "As a juvenile he will need a place to sleep, food, but not much, and attention. As an adult he will eat more, but still not enough to be considered a problem. He will learn magic with time and practice."
"And he'll make friends and listen to music and decide what he likes and doesn't like!" Soho said with a nod.
"I'm sure that he'll recover after you become his bond." Ice said calmly. "Feien never get sick, after all." Unless it was mental, but she wasn't about to mention that.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:35 pm
"Can I do that? Is it even possible? I mean, didn't you already say he had somebody?"
Aude looked at Ice, with seemingly thousands of questions in her eyes.
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:38 pm
"But by what you've told me and the looks of him now... he doesn't have anyone now." Ice said. "And that's what matters."
"Of course you can do it!" Soho said. "Feien are fun to have!"
"And if you have any questions you can go to the shop." Ice finished. "There's information there, as well as people willing to answer your questions. I'm not the only one that works there, after all."
"So..." Aleric asked hesitantly. "Will you be his bond?"
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