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 Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:53 am
Arafel smiled, bent over her snake-toddler. Hands held out awkwardly infront of her for Ilori to hold onto. The toddler was frowning in concentration as she carefully shifted her lower body. Left... right...left... "Nn!" she wobbled, grip tightning on the woman's hands.
Arafel smiled a bit, quickly scouping up the child. Causing her to give a suprised squeak, and an automatic curl of suprise. She quickly uncurled, latching and wrapping onto Arafel as soon as she realized who had removed her from her place on the ground. "How bout we just go play on the swings, hm?" Arafel smiled, receiving a tiny nod from the girl. "Allright then. To the swings!" She poited to the dangling black objects, turning to head to them.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:12 am
Dangling her feet gaily, the young girl closed her eyes and smiled serenely.
Who knew sitting on a swing could be so relaxing? True, she wasn't actually swinging, but rather just sitting there, but the concept was the same. Technically.
Opening her eyes and fingering the flute in her obi, Shouko contemplated practicing a bit. She'd gotten quite a bit better recently, but still nothing amazing - it was rather frustrating, in the pink-haired girl's opinion. With all the practice she'd been doing, she ought to have been playing solo in the great halls!
Glaring a bit at her flute, the girl silently continued to swing her feet over the ground.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:34 am
Arafel stopped, looking between the toddler and the child swings. For one, Ilori should be in the toddler ones... She probably couldn't hold herself on the childsize swings yet. However, it was made for two legs, not one long snake tail...
Ilroi looked at the odd contraptions. This was her first time to a park, and she had no idea what swings were... Or which of these things were the swings themselves. Afterall, they looked too different to be the same thing.
Arafel perked up, an idea hitting her. She moved to the open child's swing, plopping herself down into it. She then moved Ilori to her lap, wrapping one arm around her to suffice as some sort of buckle. "ready... Set..." Arafel pushed herself back with her feet, "Go!" With that word she jerked up her legs, letting gravity do the rest.
Ilori's eyes widened as they fell, and then went backwards. After a moment of suprise she gave a grin, clapping her hands.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:27 am
Snapping out of her thoughts when the newly arrived people next to her began to swing, the girl snuck a glance at the woman and the child, which granted seemed to have half the body of a large snake.
Smiling as the toddler grinned, Shouko's spirits lifted considerably.
Curiosity, meanwhile, was trying to kill her. Or something of the like, anyway, for the pink-haired girl felt rather curious about the child. It wasn't often, even in Gaia, that you saw someone so special. Unless of course you were an Eden, like Shouko.
And curiosity had to be satisfied, didn't it?
"Umm.." a nervous little giggle broke free from the young girl, "hello? I'm sorrybutIcouldn'thelpbutnoticehowprettyyourchildis." Blushing to the roots of her hair, the Eden-girl was quickly regretting her rash decision. She really was curious, but what if the pair took offense?
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:56 pm
Arafel blinked, suprised she hadn't really noticed the child sooner. Ofcourse the sight of children in a park where almost like looking at scenery... They were just expected.
The woman supressed a laugh as the child spoke, smiling warmly. She was a sucker for kids. Expecially cute ones like that.
She slowed her swingnig, "Thankyou. Her names Ilori. And you are?" she smiled more, whispering to Ilori to say hi.
Ilori blinked, smiling a bit. She knew what pretty was! She was pretty? yay! The toddler giggled, giving a wave. She awkwardly peered up at Arafel, pointing to the pink haired girl. "ssee too!"
Arafel smiled toard Ilori "Yes, she is pretty too." she gave a tiny ruffle to the girl's white hair, receiving another giggle.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:26 am
Oh, goody - the woman was smiling. That was, in Shouko's somewhat limited experience, a good sign.
Smiling happily in return, the young girl absentmindedly began to braid a small lock of pink hair.
"Ilo..ri?" trying the name out, the pink-haired Eden decided that it was, indeed, a fitting name, "I'm Shouko,"
Waving back at the toddler, Shouko grinned slightly - there was just something so infinitely beautiful about the toddler. Normally a toddler was cute, but that just didn't seem to cut it for Ilori, or at least in the other girl's opinion.
Blushing lightly as she too was deemed pretty, Shouko looked down at her dangling feet in flustered silence.
"Thank you," her voice was muffled, but nevertheless seemed to radiate a certain happiness.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:33 pm
"It's nice to meet you, Shouko." Arafel smiled to the pink-haired eden, though completely oblivious to the fact she was... Her features weren't quite as obvious as Ilori's were. However there was a notice for the part-werewolf of a distinct smell of the child. A nice one, but she hardly paid any heed to it... Shampoos often smelled like that too.
Ilori watched the girl, giving a tiny giggle as she flustered. She peered crosseyed at her own hair falling infront of her face, reaching up to try and mimic the act the other girl had been doing. Curious to figure out what the point of it was... However her atetmpt at braiding only got as far as pulling the strand of hair into seperate peices, only to create a veil over her face. A tickly one at that.
The girl frowned at it, immediatly trying to shove the hair away as it tickled her face and made it itch. She looked at the other girl once more... Her own hair didn't even seem to come close to what she had done... A mystery.
Arafel blinked, looking back to the toddler in her lap as she started furiously rubbing at her face. She smiled, gently brushing a few strands away as well. "Shouko, would you like me to push you on the swing?" She smiled a bit, in her experience kids rather liked that. And she knew her first experience on a swing had been rather awkward... The things were hard to get going! Expecially when you were just learning.
Ofcourse she had been an adult when she first met this contraption... But it was still hard.
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:59 am
"Nice t'meet you too," mumbled, but nevertheless able to be heard.
Biting her lip to keep in her chuckles as the younger girl tried to braid her hair as well, or at least seeming to be doing something in that general direction.
Blinking as the woman offered to push her on the swing, Shouko contemplated the offer for a few moments.
"I'd.. like that," when had she become so shy? The girl couldn't remember, but for some reason her personality had become a mystery to even herself.
Having dangled her feet quite a bit and not getting anywhere, the child decided that she might be getting somewhere if the adult helped her.
"I've been on a swing before you know, I'm just not very good at it," she felt the need to defend herself.
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:11 am
Arafel smiled, moving to her feet. She set Ilori down on the swing she'd been on, making sure the toddler had her balance before she moved behind Shouko. She took hold of the chains, pulling the girl back a few feet then letting go, giving her a tiny boost as gravity returned her. Arafel would start out slow, and go higher until the girl seemed to be content with a certian height. "I'm sure you're fine. I didn't even learn how to swing until I was..." she paused, her real age had allways been a mystery. She hadn't ever kept track, though they knew she wa sover 100... And telling the child she hadn't learned to swing until she was 100 didn't exactly sound good. "Well. Until i was an adult." She nodded, pleased with her finished sentance.
Ilori blinked as she was left to the seat, immediatly she grabed hold of the chain, her snake half coiling around the swing. With a firm grip on things, she let herself relax and watch the interesting action of swinging beside her.
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:29 am
Giggling madly as the wind ran through her hair and the swing rose, the young, pink-haired girl relaxed and closed her eyes.
This was how she imagined it would be to fly, anyway.
Cracking open an eye as the woman stopped mid-sentence, Shouko craned her neck so she could watch the older person.
Turning back as the person in question had said she hadn't learned it before she was an adult, small wrinkles appeared on the girl's forehead.
"You didn't swing on swings when you was a kid?" curious indeed - Shouko had never met someone (or at least she didn't think she had) that hadn't swung when they were a child.
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:42 am
Another push, Arafel smiled at her. "Nope. I didn't live near any parks." Nor towns for that matter... She vaugly wondered if swings had eve existed when she was younger. She'd have to ask her brother... he'd often wander into the human villages and get them in trouble... maybe he'd seen one when he was there?
She shurgged, giving another push as the girl came back. "I did climb trees alot, and swim. And I got to dig in the dirt all I wanted." She gave a laugh, most parents forbidded that act... hers would have too probably. "But no swings." Arafel couldn't help but smile at her odd childhood, though it might seem sad to someone else, to her it was just a different childhood.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:19 am
Giggling as the air whooshed past her yet again, Shouko thought herself rather fortunate to have met this woman and her child. It wasn't everyday a nice stranger offered to push you on a swing, and did it as well as this one did.
"Where'd you live then?" the child was having a hard time imagined a place where there wasn't any parks; granted she hadn't been outside the city much, but it had been her general impression that parks were omnipresent.
Nodding at the woman's words, Shouko contemplated the idea of climbing trees. It had never much appealed to her, despite her mother's insistance that it ought to, and she really didn't see the point in it. You were where you were, weren't you?
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:17 am
Arafel smiled, giving a slightly harder push... years of taking care of children had given her a good control over swing pushing... after all, what kid didn't like swings?
"Well. Me and my brother lived in the middle of the forest... We were allways moving, but it was allways in the forest or mountians.. anywhere far far away from other people." She nodded, wonder how that might come off... she certiantly wasn't a crazy mountain child. Or atleast not the crazy part...
"But now I live here, right next to all the parks and fun things. And I take my kids to them."
Ilroi watched in awe as the girl slowly went higher and higher. Basically ignoring the conversation between the two... Afterall, what toddler cared about the living habits of her mother?
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:45 am
Letting out a squeal as she swung even higher, the girl clung to the rope of the swing.
Enjoying the swinging, Shouko waited until the swing slowed down a bit before answering the woman.
"Why not live in a city? It's nice with people around," voice inquisitive, the Eden child tried to focus on keeping herself on the swing.
"Does Ilori like swings?" a good question, the pink-haired girl decided, as she glanced at the toddler in question. She certainly seemed interested enough.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:57 pm
Arafel smiled, giving a few pushes less of a strenght, allowing the girl to come down a moment before pushign harder again. Just to make sure she didn't get too high. Wouldn't look good to go flinging small children off of swings.
"Well, when i was younger people weren't as nice as they are now." She said cheerily, looking to Ilori as she gave another push. "I guess she does, this is her first time on one." She gave the toddler a smile, looking away once more so she wouldn't get a facefull of child-on-a-swing.
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