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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:13 am
Tek giggled happily the odd little fiend was having much more fun then he should. At the moment xe was attempting to carry as many odds and ends as possible from the junk isle of the thrift store toward the small wire cart that Rhys had designated as theirs.
It had been a slow day and since Rhys school hadn't called recently called to complain about the boy's attendance Clotho had kicked them both out of the door of the house and instructed to find something to do with themselves. With Rhys few friends seemingly off doing things of their own the teen had decided to take Tek shopping at the Thrift Store, the hope was that the strange little fiend would find odds and ends there to use in his 'masterpieces' instead of destroying things around the house.
At the moment Tek had an antique looking radio in one arm, and overdone lamp in the other, and had grabbed up what appeared to be a wire egg beater made of copper, and a decent sized mirror with his tentacles. Xe was almost out of the isle when a jar of buttons and beads caught his attention wiggling over the little fiend attempted to grab it up as well with one of his remaining tentacles. The jar wobbled a few times and instead of being caught fell to the floor with a crash!
Rhys winced a little hearing the glass jar hit the floor, the wince just deepening a moment as he heard the multitude of beads and buttons scatter over the floor as well. "Tek..." with a sad resigned sigh he stepped back from the shelve of books he'd been looking over and went to see what sort of mess the little fiend had made in the nearby shop isle. A pained expression came across his face as he saw not only the broken glass but also a wide variety of random things strewn everywhere. Turning Rhys stood up on his toes and looked toward the front of the store the clerk hadn't noticed yet, his gaze caught sight of something sparkling off to the right turning he realized there was another fiend in the store and that's when he caught sight of Miranda.
Miranda and Rutie were in the store, dropping back down from his toes he glanced over to the mess and then back toward where the other two were. They weren't too far away, maybe he could turn the cart and ... 'accidentally' run into the two. He'd been considering stopping by the shop after speaking with Amon but just hadn't had the time free. Stepping over to move the cart around Rhys instead of turning it bout face got a stray bead caught under his shoe and slide, reaching up he kept himself from falling fully clinging to the cart with one hand with his leg jutted out where he'd started to loose his foot and his wings spread half haphazardly behind him.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:13 am
Rhys hadn’t been the only one to wince at the sound of the glass crashing and the beads and buttons scattering all over the the floor – not that Miranda’s sense hearing was especially keen … But this happened to be the just kind of sound she’d become very, very much attuned to what with a cat and a little fiend around. For a moment the young woman stared at Rutie disapprovingly, but only until she realized he hadn’t been the culprit. Craning her neck, she peered down the cramped aisle, just in time to catch sight of Rhys attempting to turn around the cart and slipping. Clamping her mouth shut with both hands to stiffle her laughter the young woman quickly retreated to hide behind one of the shelves. My, that was rather spectacular! It seemed a small miracle, almost, that poor Rhys hadn’t knocked over even more stuff with that massive wingspan of his.
‘???’ Rutie inquired, pausing his rummaging through the contents of an old, battered cookie tin for a moment to look at his guardian, brown eyes wide with curiosity. She seemed incredibly amused about something, but he couldn’t figure out just what it was.
Miranda merely shook her head and waved him off, still struggling to not laugh out loud and cause even more embarrassment for poor Rhys. She hadn’t had a chance to get the hang of ‘thinking’ at Rutie yet instead of speaking out loud, and she wanted to give Rhys a bit of a chance to regain his composure before she’d walk over to greet him. And Tek. Was Tek around? He had to be, child fiends couldn’t get very far away from their guardians, she knew that much.
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:49 pm
Rhys winced painfully and started trying to right himself, his wings flailed and a couple of vases on a nearby shelf fell to the floor with a loud shattering sound. The teen got to his feet his pale complexion under the strange tattoo looking flushed with embarrassment. A pained sigh came next as he spotted the store clerk heading his way the man looked more then a bit perturbed. Standing straight he quickly clasped his wings around himself to keep them from causing too much more in the way of problems.
Standing on his toes he looked up and over attempting to spot Miranda again not seeing her right away Rhys frowned a little he wondered if she had run off or perhaps if he was lucky she'd left before the worse of the mess.
Wincing a bit he looked to the rather perturbed looking man that had walked up, "I'll uhm pay for that," clearing his throat he reached out and took the broom and dustpan the man was holding out.
"Oh you will be," and with that the clerk turned and headed back to the front of the store.
Frowning deeply at the floor Rhys started to sweep up the mess, starting a little he jumped back as a dark tentacle darted out from under the shelf. "Tek!"
While Rhys has been flustered and then more flustered Tek had been keeping xemself busy. Xe really had wanted the oddly shaped beads and buttons that filled the jar and had grabbed up a small basket. The little fiend used his hands and a tentacle here and there to start gathering up the little odds and ends putting them in the basket as xe went.
Darting a tentacle out xe grabbed up a fallen bead freezing as xe heard Rhys yell. Stop trying to take them! I need them! Popping his head out from under the shelf Tek looked up toward Rhys with his strange wide eyes.
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:14 am
Ahahahah, oh God, this kept only getting even more hilarious! Miranda’s body twitched, her hands still keeping her mouth clamped shut to not let the barest hint of a giggle escape. She’d peeked around the corner to see if it was fine now to approach Rhys, just in time to see the vases come crashing down.
‘???’ Rutie pinged a curious inquiry at her again, his brown eyes – just the same color as her own – wide.
“C’me on,” she whispered quietly, after she had recovered a little, wiping tears of laughter from the corner of her eyes before she moved down the aisle.
“Looks like you could use some help,” she said softly – not wanting to startle the teen again – and crouched down to gather up some of the wayward beads and buttons. “This happens to me all the time. You know, a cat and a fiend around, that leads only to chaos and mayhem and broken things. Rutie, you come help too!”
Rutie nodded, slowly drifting closer. He was still keeping the battered cookie tin clutched to his chest, which meant he had no free hands, but some of the beads reluctantly started to roll towards where his tail touched down.
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:03 am
Rhys turned a bit hearing Miranda and gripped the loaned broom tightly, his face flushing again anew. She hadn't left which meant she'd seen at least some of what had happened, clearing his throat he wished he could make himself less noticeable but with his height and his wings that didn't seem very likely, "oh...uhm thank you." He flushed again and brought the dustpan over to clear up some of the glass.
Tek continued xyrs sorting and finding of the beads filling his little basket as he went. Pausing the little fiend watched Rutie's tail nearby - darting a dark hand out Tek grabbed for Rutie's tail and the beads it was gathering! In the basket!
Turning some Rhys reached attempting to help Miranda feeling very embarrassed in general that she'd come to clean up his mess. "Careful of the glass..." he managed a shy smile bringing round the dustpan, "...and uhm, Rutie was it?" He glanced over toward the fiend, "has certainly grown." Frowning a little at himself Rhys paused a moment - conversation wasn't always his strong point either at times, especially because he was focusing on how nervous he felt.
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:00 am
“No biggie. As I said, stuff like that keeps happening to me all the time. I’ve had to replace an awful lot of dishes ever since Rutie joined the household.” Miranda rolled her eyes, but she certainly seemed amused rather than annoyed about the fact. “And I’m not made of sugar. A cut here and there might hurt like crap, but its not going to kill me.”
His tail being assaulted like that came completely unexpected to Rutie, so he sort of squeeped in surprise, pulling it close and dropping his treasured cookie tin in turn, causing a collection of all sorts of nuts and bolts and screws and nails to spill across the floor - adding to the mess broken glass and collection of beads and buttons already there.
“Oh dear …” Miranda said, rolling her eyes. “But yeah. He did grow, didn’t he? Literally over night, like ‘poof’!”
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:00 pm
Rhys nodded slightly looking a bit sheepish, "ah well thank you again." He paused for a time watching the floor and broom as he cleaned until it clicked that he should probably say more. "You should try and let me make it up to you. Do you like coffee or...something?" Really...something, he chided himself mentally a moment. Luckily the sound of the new disaster drew his attention as nuts and bolts sprang out across the floor.
Despite the mess Rhys couldn't help but chuckle as more was added to the mess, "yeah, Tek just appeared overnight...or should I say in the middle of the night. He grew and decided to poke around the house - scared Merci in the shower...then she tried to shoot him a lot."
Tek for a moment continued to try and stuff the other fiend's tail into xyrs basket but as all the new items fell to the floor xe released Rutie and instead darted out from under the shelf attempting to capture some of the runaway hardware.
Ah ha! These are perfect! Using hands and one of his tail tentacles Tek started grabbing up nuts and bolts along with xyrs beads and drop the into xyrs basket.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:37 pm
“I know a place nearby which has some great iced coffee.” Miranda smiled. “And fabulous ice cream and cakes.” Really, she was more of a person with a sweet tooth, and when she did drink coffee, it was usually with at least three heaped spoon-fulls of sugar. And lots of cream.
“She tried to shoot him, seriously?!” Miranda's brown eyes widened behind her glasses. “You've got to be kidding.” He had to be.
“Rutie,” she said over her shoulder, “you help too. You were the one to drop that tin.”
'Bbbbu …' Rutie's eyes, just as brown as his guardian's, grew wide and round. 'But he scared me.' He pointed at Tek accusingly, realizing just in time the tentacly fiend was gathering up his nuts and bolts. 'I wanted those!' he protested, diving for the bits of hardware, wrapping his arms around the little heap protectively and glaring at Tek. 'Mine.'
“Then put them back into the tin. I'll only get you what you put in there, and from the looks of it,” Miranda smirked, “you'll have to hurry up.” She winked at Rhys. If she managed to tease the fiends into a competition about who gathered up the most of these odds and ends the quickest, they'd have this mess cleaned up in no time.
Rutie stared at her, his tail flicking and sending out a small shower of sparks and sparkles, and then he started shoveling the hardware back into the battered tin. Plus some of the beads and buttons. If this other fiend took his bolts, he certainly could have some of them buttons, right?!
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:06 pm
"That sounds great, we can head there once the rest of this is up," he paused a moment noting the mess that was becoming quickly smaller and more neat, his lip tugged a bit as he watched the fiends fighting over their fallen treasures Miranda had helped it on quite a bit.
Rhys ducked his head nervously, he really did need to learn not to bring up the shooting, "my...mothers can be intense and she thought it was something trying to harm us. So yes she did attempt to shoot him, luckily she never got a shot of any sort off."
Tek giggled a little, an odd sort of sound coming from the tentacled fiend. Noting Rutie going after more of the fallen bits xe moved over into action, challenge accepted! With the number of buttons, beads, bolts,and random bits on the floor slowly shrinking Tek moved in closer to Rutie seeking prizes.
Rhys set the broom aside and as Tek went to grab at something in Rutie's Tin, Rhys reached and picked Tek's basket up drawing the fiends attention. Grinning a little he looked down to the tentacled troublemaker, "I think...that's enough grabbing...we don't want another mess."
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Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:52 am
“Careful with those wings …” Miranda teased, as Rhys reached to snag Tek's basket. “Yeah, I've just got one mom, and she's quite a handful. I moved out, but she keeps insisting of interfering with my life, and even- She actually threatened to sue Twilight Designs because they gave me Rutie, would you believe that?! She doesn't understand a thing. And she hates magic, she thinks it's unnatural ...” She paused, cheek's flushing with embarassment. “I'm So Sorry for venting like that. It's just, we've had that BIG fight recently ...” She heaved a heavy sigh, and then smiled reluctantly when Rutie came over to gently pet her shoulder. He and Verne, they always were there for her when she was feeling down.
Her features brightened as she put on a smile for Rhys. “Sorry, I really want to bother you with that. I know she just cares, and that our problems are pretty mundane … Rutie, are you done?”
The fiend nodded, handing her the battered tin. He wasn't being quite truthful, there were quite a few nuts and bolds and beads and buttons and shards which had been shoved underneath the furniture. He'd just come back and pick them up later, he decided. But now he wanted to head back home to play with these interesting new things!
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Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:13 pm
Glancing back Rhys tucked his wings in a little, grinning a little in embarrassment, "really don't want to make more of a mess." Clears his throat and relaxes his wings again once he sees that he isn't in any real danger of knocking anything else.
Rhys shifted a little from one foot to the other as he listened, a smile appearing as she apologized, "don't worry about it...everyone has their problems." Truthfully he realized it was nice to hear that people had 'normal' sounding problems too. "I suppose," his gaze moved over toward Tek, watching the shadow moving to grasp up more and more of the odds and ends. "for some people what we find to be friends, they find hard to understand."
Tek hovered nearby looking triumphant, xe'd gotten quite a few things of xyrs own plus a few xe knew xe'd stolen from Rutie's basket. With a mischievous grin the little fiend clutched the various items to xyrs chest before sneakily dropping them in with xyrs things.
"I think we are about ready here, should probably get going," Rhys turned and motioned Miranda ahead allowing her to go first, "I can sense that staying too much longer will probably be disaster of some sort or another."
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