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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:07 am
"Show me..." Tangia whispered, dragging her hand across the surface of the water. She remembered being here before, and that the water had shown her the truth. But now, it wasn't doing anything. The toddler was profoundly intelligent, and though she wasn't near old enough to be entirely on her own, she had been running away from the house to be alone. Or at least, in the peace and quiet.
"Why won't you show me..." She said quietly, though despite her frustration she didn't sound angry. Why wouldn't the water show her what she wanted to see? All she wanted to was to know what had happened to Ayame. Lately she hadn't been feeling much from her sister, and it was starting to worry her. She needed companionship, someone to talk to.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:27 am
Riku was taking her little blonde dragonfly child out for a walk, hugging the baby close. "We'll go look at a lake today, hunh? Would you like that, Aurelius?" The baby was so quiet, Riku spent time checking to see if she was asleep as she walked, occasionally taking a moment to check her watch for the time. No, it wasn't anywhere near Aure's naptime, so why was she being so quiet?
They were on the way down the small hill when the guardian finally noticed a little girl with rabbit ears and gray hair near the side of the water. Aurelius, with her mako eyes- such a green, Riku still freaked out a little when she looked at them- was staring at her with the intensity of a hungry tiger. Shifting the girl off her shoulder and staring at her, the guardian of the dragonfly girl shifted course towards the bunny girl.
"Uhm... hello?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:04 am
At first, Tangia didn't respond to the sound, though her hand froze in the water where it lay. After a few moments, she turned to look at them, blank pink eyes following the line between Aure's eyes and Riku's. For a while, she just stared, not showing any real expression. Then, she turned back to the water, twitching her ears a bit, "Hello illusionist."
Well, it made perfect sense to her. She didn't know the woman's name, and from the eyes on the girl, and the fact that they were around here, she must be one of newer illusionaries. Moving to sit crosslegged, the girl busied herself straightening out her skirts.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:33 pm
Riku was starting to feel a little weirded out, but Aure smiled and giggled, so she sat down. "Uhm, I'm Riku, and this is Aurelius... and... uhm... what's an illusionist?" She paused, setting the little blonde girl down and biting her lip when the child immediately set off towards Tangia and cooed.
"And... who're you?" the eldest woman asked uncomfortably, watching Aurelius with a hawk's eye.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:44 pm
The girl seemed a bit detached, watching Aure as she came closer instead of answering the questions immediately. Letting out a soft sigh, she looked back up at Riku, seeming strangely ghostly, "Illusionist... She depends on you." She reached her marked hand toward the girl, showing an emotionless smile. Though she didn't really think her own name was important, she decided it was best to oblige the woman, "Tangia." Her voice quivered a bit, and she showed a slight bit of discomfort with the word, but there was no apparant reason why.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:01 pm
Riku wondered at that for a moment, but offered a sort-of maternal smile at the silver-haired girl. "Okay..." The blonde Illusionary gripped the hand with an infant's strength, trying to pull it down a little. She gurgled for a moment, petting Tangia's hand.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:07 pm
Pulling Aure up toward her, the infant seemed to want to be held after all, Tangia looked back at Riku, watching her for a moment. "You seem... Uncomfortable," she mused, the wish stone around her neck reflecting the light off the water a bit eerily. The smile fading from her face, she turned back to look at the lake, "I am not what you expected, right? When you saw me here?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:20 pm
Yes! This one understood her, not like that crazy Jedi who needed a million hints before she understood anything. Aurelius cooed again, petting the bunny girl's hand and then her skirt. So soft~... The baby smiled as Riku shifted slightly. "Well, I did expect you to be more... childish. I don't know." The scientist looked out towards the lake as well, trying to ignore the creepy reflection from a stone Tangia wore.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:51 am
Tangia nodded, closing her eyes, "Mmm... They always do." It was true, everyone always expected her to break up words and delight in getting messy and playing with colorful toys. But really, she just wanted peace and quiet. Nice calm places where she could think. She might have looked young, but her mind... It didn't seem to agree with her body.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:12 pm
Riku dithered, trying to avoid an uncomfortable situation like the one she felt was brewing as her blonde dragonfly baby continued to pet Tangia's soft skirt. It kind of sucked that she couldn't talk yet. All her efforts came out as childish cooing. "Taaa~" she tried, then pouted when her attempt to say the other Illusionary's name failed. Miserably. "-geee~" she continued, then stopped to pout for a moment.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:41 am
"Tagi is a fine name," she assured Aure, petting the girl's blonde hair, knowing all to well how hard it was to pronounce words as an infant. She had spent a lot of her spare time just practicing words over and over to herself. Looking up at Riku, she showed a faint smile, "How long have you been her gaurdian?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:38 pm
Well, okay, as long as it was allowed. "Tagi," the baby said, sounding impossibly satisfied as Riku looked around a bit nervously.
"About a week?" she guessed. "Her former guardians... one died and the other... isn't a fit parent anymore. So her grandfather gave her to me to care for."
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:52 pm
"That's sad," she mused, giving Aure a little hug to comfort her for something she knew the baby likely didn't understand, "I don't know what I would do if I lost my mother, she'd always been there for me. Like her children, and my sister, but..." She trailed off, giving a little sigh, "I do worry about all of them. I suppose it's things like that that make me."
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:22 pm
Aure smiled, gurgling as she did so. "I don't think Aurie remembers any of it," Riku said, smiling a little. "You must really love your mother and your siblings, huh..." She glanced at her 'daughter'. Hopefully, Kieve would get along with Aurie as well as she got along with Kata.
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:57 am
"I do, all of them," she said, bristling a bit, "I wonder... Do you think she remembers who, or what, she was? I don't remember if I did then, I do now, but... It would be hard." She had a soft spot for the others, they had been brought here by themselves, at least she had had Ayame. Even if they had a stranger past than most.
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