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 Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:28 am
 After her solo adventure, Menolly had returned to the floating island and her temporary home. Finding the family that so kindly took her in, she retold her tail of meeting her new friend, Sparrow. Naomi volunteered to show her around a little. The island was too big to go everywhere so Menolly decided she wanted to see what tree was the 'Great Tree'. The warning that other types of pea were not welcome there came with great confusion for the angel. Never in all of her experience and life had she known of pea actively forbidding other pea and living separate like that. Angels, demons and Fae had gotten along just fine, she had protested.
That was one fact of life that Menolly just wouldn't understand, this island had changed so much and with new pea had gotten sadder.
Still, Naomi was willing to show her the location of the Tree. They landed on Pae'kippu Beach and began walking east towards where the Tree would be with the condition they didn't go past the bridge.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:22 pm
 The fact that Menolly was clueless about the fawn and their rules was a little baffling to Naomi, but as they walked she tried to explain what she did know. It wasn't a lot but it was the basics, they had plenty of time to talk about it as the walk would take them a couple hours. Naomi had grown to like this lady that her mom had invited into their home. It was probably one of the only reasons she had agreed to do this.
Naomi had tried to get her brother to tag along as well but the male had declined wanting to do something else. She wasn't sure what it was that he planned to do he often just sat around being silly with his ventriloquy.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:07 pm
Naomi was a lot of help and Menolly tried to listen. So much of what was said confused her because it just didn't make sense. She'd share what she knew of the world before the change and really cared to hear what had stayed the same and what didn't. "There were only Angels, Demons and Fae and the Island was floating in the air, the whole thing." Looking to the direction of Telrunya City, it was crazy now that it floated when everything else landed.
She could only picture what it must have been like to live during that cataclysm. The new type of pae were exciting but she was saddened to think she wouldn't be welcomed to visit the faun and still didn't know how to find the naiad.~~~  Alma could hear the water, at the time she moved through the Ithyl Forest she couldn't see it yet but she heard it. Her Grannie was with her even though she hadn't seen her in a while. The conversion had continued, a bird jumping from branch to branch was her passively listening Grandmother, she believed.
Coming upon the crest of the land, she saw the rocky cliff. It had to be Grannie warning her not to continue. Never before had she been allowed to go that close to the water. Still, she wanted to go closer so she kept walking.
It was a shock when her foot went down and didn't hit soild ground. She had a few seconds to register that this wasn't one of Grandmother's illusions. There was no time to get her wings moving and the child fell.
Too shocked to scream, she she bounced off the first rock all she did was squeak. The next one she hit brought out a yelp and a few more bounces brought her to land hard on the sandy Pae'kippu Beach. The sand helped but one wouldn't know it by listening. As soon as the world stopped spinning, the stunned child started to scream.
She was covered in bumps and bruises with cuts in a few different places. Alma didn't know what was going on, she had never fallen like this and certainly never been hurt like this. Thinking stopped, the child was in pure panic mode and screaming her lungs out. With a red face and streaming tears, she flailed her arms as if that would scare away the pain.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:05 pm
"Now there are all of those and naiads and the faun and the fauny and some new one with wings and claws, not sure what those are exactly" She was listing off the pae types she knew of, though even she didn't know if that was ALL the types of pae there were. Naomi hadn't been to any recent functions to see if there were others she hadn't seen before.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a very distinct scream from what she could tell was not an adult "What the..." she stopped and spun looking for the source of the screams. "Menolly where.... who...." Then her eyes landed on an odd looking pae child and she took off at a run towards it. She'd never seen a child that looked like this before but the flailing limbs led her to believe there was more then meets the eye here.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:13 pm
Wings and claws, that sounded familiar. Making a small sound she smiled and raised on finger as she cheerfully stated, "I met one with wings and claws, thought she was a bird shifter at first." Rubbing the back of her head she kept her smile, "Sparrow was less then thrilled with the assumption. She didn't know what she was either." That wasn't the most informative explanation but it was the only pae she had met that was different and matched a description given by Naomi.
Her smiled faltered into a look of concern when she heard the distinct sound of a child screaming, "Someone's hurt" she stated softly looking for the origin of the sound.
Following in Naomi's wake, Menolly took off as well.
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As of yet Alma hadn't noticed anyone had heard her and continued to scream for help. Her eyes were shut tight and her voice as high as it could go. She screamed for her mother, for her Grannie and yelled to the world that she hurt. She was quite loudly insistent that she hurt. For being a child able to talk quite well, her words were mushed together in a long pain filled string and the only breaths she took were to refill her lungs to contain her screaming and crying.
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:55 pm
Naomi reached the child before Menolly did and plopped onto her knees in the sand "Hey there heyyy wooahhh" she had to back up and nearly tipped backwards all together as one of the flailing limbs nearly connected with her nose. Naomi was trying to catch what this child was wailing but the start of one word was mixed with the word before it. She did know just by looking however that this kid was hurt, how much and what caused it was still something she had to figure out. Not to mention .... what was she, she didn't look like ANY of the breeds of pae she and Menolly had just been discussing
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:05 pm
Menolly kneeled down slightly behind the child and started humming softly as she reached out and touched the freaking out child, "Hush now," she said in a sing-song voice, "quite now." Her intent was to get the child's attention enough that they could help her.
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Alma's screams cut instantly the moment she was touched. Jumping in place she looked now at the sudden appearance of a new pae, the other one could be real-real but the one who touched her was certainly real.
Momentarily she was distracted.
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Menolly took the chance when it appeared, picking the child up and rocking her gently, "We'll get you help. We need to see what hurts." Granted she had no ability to help the child herself, but the healing house had to be somewhere. Well, if it still existed.
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Alma began whining again, tears still streaming but she wasn't screaming. Whimpering she responded, "I hurt, fell down-down." She looked between the two through tear filled eyes expecting them to fix it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:46 pm
Naomi looked grateful when Menolly managed to get the child to stop flailing. She moved closer once again and reached to take hold of the two small hand of the child. "It looks like you took a real tumble. What is your name?" She wanted to know what to call the small pae before it started to go nuts again. "My name is Naomi and my friend is Menolly." On top of all this basic info Naomi was distracting the child as she helped the child to heal. The bumps and bruises of this little girl seemed many but she planned to do what she could.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:25 pm
Menolly kept humming to the child trying to soothe her while Naomi worked. She was an adorable little girl, looked to her to be a hybrid obviously with fairy in her, likely demon too by the shape of the wings. The young child made her feel like the boundaries that separated the other type of pae hadn't affected the original with one this young wondering about. What concerned her was where was the child's parents?
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Alma sniffled and agreed with Naomi, "Real-real cliff and fall." Looking back to the cliff she had fallen from, it looked like a mile high with jagged rocks. Scared of just the memory she hid her head in Menolly's arms mumbling, "Alma"
As the pain faded she risked looking at the other pae. Frowning she looked at Menolly's left wrist the purple contrasting her own light blue-green. Looking to Naomi's wrist she saw the same marking. Looking between the too, seeing what was the same she asked confused, "You call your Momma your friend and not Momma?" Mommas were just that, Mommas they weren't friends. Speaking of, "Where is my Momma?" Looking back up she yelled again, "MOMMA! GRANNIE" but the child's calls were going unanswered.
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:33 pm
Naomi glanced up in the direction the child did "You fell from there Alma? You are lucky you aren't hurt more."she in fact was surprised the child hadn't been. Naomi continued her efforts to aid the child, her head turned back fast to stare at Alma in confusion "What?" She questioned before the girl started to hollar for the missing adults. Her what? Surely this child was jesting
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:43 pm
With no one incoming that she could see, Alma looked back down and pointed to Naomi's wrist then to Menolly's "Same!" The markings were the exact same in the exact same spot.
Menolly was baffled too, completely taken aback by the child's assertion that she was Naomi's mother, "No sweet one, I am not her Momma. Pea don't have two mommas." Not that she knew anyway, that was impossible..Right? She certainly didn't remember having kids.
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 8:55 pm
"Mom.. says... I have two grandmas" Naomi spoke up slowly after a few minutes of quiet pondering. "I have never met them, but she says I have them." Naomi was letting the child move her hand from in and out of her grasp. Her eyes were on the marking that Alma was indicating. She hadn't really noticed it before, but then she hadn't really looked either. But surely if this child was right wouldn't her own mother know?
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 7:40 am
Alma was enjoying herself now, the game of same was fun! Looking at both the angel in front of her and the one holding her, she started pointing out what was the same. "Same blue! Same purple!" Pointing the swirl mark on Naomi's hip, she tapped the one of Menolly's "Same!" Clearly that was all the evidence needed though she did add, "Same wings! Momma and I have same wings too, though Grannie doesn't." She didn't realize all angels had the same wings.
Menolly was trying to digest what the child was saying. Naomi saying she had two grannies took the angel by surprise, "Thats possible?" It had to be adopted or something but maybe it was. She couldn't believe it, if she had children she'd know, right? Stroking the child's hair gently she said, "Yes we do have similar markings. All angels have the same type of wings."
The child was feeling better and no parent had come for her so she asked Naomi,"Is there a safe place for the child so her mother can find her? If the HQ is gone, is the Healing house as well?" That would be her next guess for some where safe.
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 6:01 am
"I guess so, I'm not sure. Mom never spoke of any grandpas, only mentioned a great-grandpa... I've never met any of them though." Naomi let go of the child's hands and looked to Menolly. The whole situation was baffling and she didn't really know what to make of it. After a further moment she nodded slowly and turned to look off in the direction they'd been previously headed "I think it's over not too far off from the tree, which is where we were going towards" she motioned in the general direction she thought the house may be located. Then she turned to Alma "do you think your mommy or grannie would think to look for you there?"
(( soooo peeved that I had to post this 3 times ))
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:02 pm
It had only been her Mother and Father, she didn't think she had any Grandpaes of her own. The idea mulled over in her head. So it was possible that the twins could be hers too? Possible but was it probable? She wondered if they were born after the party that she and their mother had attended. Moreso, she didn't know what to do with the information.
She looked to the child then, stating her theory, "She'd be safe there and without the HQ, I can't imagine where else I'd go to find a lost child" With the Healing house near by, it seemed the best option other then leaving the child or taking her with them and risking prolonging the time apart for the child and her worried parent.
Alma looked between the two having no idea what they were talking about. "Of course" She chimed in confidently, her Momma and Grannie would look for her anywhere. She had no idea what they were talking about or thinking of taking her but had all the faith her Momma or Grannie would find her.
She was having fun looking at the two pae for similar patterns Being let down on her own feet she found a new one, the star burst on the other hip. To which she sweetly trilled, "Same!" Following that she wasn't finding any more and lost interest in the game.
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