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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:12 pm
Natsumi fidgeted as she stepped inside the center, tugging at her sweater to try and cover the new scales. Her hair was pulled foreward and up int eh back, carefully manuvered to try and look as though parts weren't missing. Her feet were bare, due to the changes to her feet, and her tail hang losely behind her, swaying whenver she stepped.
With a quick survey around the center, she started foreward, limping some in her step. Her feet were still sore, but that was why she was here... Goal in mind, her strange new eyes locked on the spot where she could get some painkillers, good... She'd just grab those, and go hide in her duplex. And with that, she started forward not noticing anyone else that might be around.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:18 pm
The frog Janitor had taken the whole rest of the day off, just now finally making his way to do some janitorial work. He wasn't feeling up for the cafeteria and had come to the conclusion that he really didn't have to that evening. Instead, he had hopped to the center to give a good sweep and mop. He had finished sweeping, and had graduated to mopping, a difficult task when half frog. He was halfway done, and thouroughly engulfed in his work.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:42 pm
Natsumi froze as Newton came into view, not that she reconized him at first. It was just.. someone. However, it only took a second for the familiar jumper to place itself. Afterall.. newt's wasn't the worst change she'd seen.
She smiled first upon reconizing him, opening her mouth to say something only to quickly shut it. Her depression nabbed her for a moment, debating with her wether or not she should try to sneak around him and go unseen. After a second, she shook the feeling. Her teenage will to be friends and socilize took over, besides.. Newton had changed too. Maybe he wouldn't care... Maybe.
She cleared her throat, fidgeting with her hair in fear that her missing ears might get noticed. "Aa.. Ahm. Hello." She started, offering a weak, nervious smile. The mop caught her attention, tryign to figure out why he'd be mopping in the back of her mind. It wasn't a hard one, the uniform and the cleaning along with the unknown word of being a custodian... That must be what that word meant.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:51 pm
In the quiet of the empty center, Newt jumped at the sudden noise, whirling around with a frightened KrrKIT! from the inflating pouches in his neck. He hopped backward, instinctively timid on both species's halfs befor spotting her. Had he met her befor? Not an islander that looked so- but no, the distinct webbing pattern of the feet and the odd bulge to her slight frame in the middle- "Ah... Nuh... nnn... Nasuuu... Nuh-natsumi?" He didn't seem to have ears either, nor the ability to grow hair on the back of his head, apparently, leaving the disk like growths in his skin that had replaced them easily spottable.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:09 am
She clasped her hands together infront of her, blinking some from the croak. It was interesting, a wierd noise... and if he had been significantly smaller and a full frog, she might have found it cute. However, he wasn't and it only brought her mind just to what everyone was. Which, in itself bothered her... She couldn't help but feel selfish for feeling so bad when there were people like Alec, whom had it much worse off.
She let out a breath as he said her name, mentally thanking whatever cosmos that she was still reconizable. She gave a nod of confirmation, "Aa... Yes." Swallowing, she looked over the recently mopped floor that stood between her and her painkillers. Deciding she could wait a bit longer to fetch them, it wouldn't take too long for the floor to dry and she was more than sure her feet would have left little muddy prints. But at that.. she was left with nothing to say or do, and ended up simply smiling at him awkwardly until the breif second of silence forced her to blurt something out. "Do you need help?" she gestured to the mop, widening her smile some.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:21 am
"Y-yuh-you ch-changed again," He said stupidly, blinking at her with his giant froggy eyes. After a moment, he seemed to realize his apparent redundancy and frantically gestured to the pile of things he had brought with him, "I b-bruh-brought myself a muh-meal if... if y-you'd like some! I... I buh-built a dev-device in my ah... home that truh-traps bugs f-for me..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:33 am
Her smile wavered and she nodded, "You did as well." she noted in return, looking over the changes. If it weren't for his jumper she doubted she would have reconized him... She was just lucky it hadn't been someone else in the same sort of outfit. He was losing his hair too... Seemed like everyone was. Her, Thom, Alec...
A meal? She blinked, nodding some. A meal sounded more than good... Chocolate, breakfast bars, poptarts, and the bugs gathering in her trash had barely been keeping her full. Pluss.. Trash bugs weren't exactly the best. "I would... If I am not bothering you that is." Her smile widened once more, and her tail gave a tiny twitch as a light blush hit her cheeks. However it was unnotticable under the already reddened markings covering her. She found herself rather impressed that he had managed to build somethign to catch bugs.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:40 am
"Ah... ah... n-nuh-no.. I sh-should tuh-take a break anyway..." He smiled weakly, laying his broom down befor he managed to hop clumsily over to his stash on all fours without it. He sat in a crouch against the wall, lifting a paperbag that he had rolled shut and waved at her to come join him.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:56 am
She watched as she frogged his way over to his things, a bit suprised and disturbed... However, he was waving her over. It almost reminded her of highschool... Except highschool had more people, no one was turning into animals... Atleast not physically, and she wasn't about to share a meal of bugs. Okay so it wasn't much like highscool at all, but still the socilizing bit remained.
She walked over, settling herself across from him, legs tucked up underneigth her in the traditional way of sitting for Japanese. Setting her hands in her lap as she waited patiently.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:24 pm
He crouched, looking awkward as he opened the bag to let her reach in for her own selection. Since becoming amphibious and insectiverous, he had found the tropics to be an utter paridice. His human mind and memories seemed to be the main source of awkwardness at certain things- or so he had convinced himself in order to daily live off of nothing but insects. He was rather proud of the ever improving contraption in his duplex. It might not have looked like much, but he was sure someone like Natsumi would appreciate it.
Unfortunatly, he was too shy to bring it up outwardly. "Help yuh-yourself?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:05 am
"Thankyou." She nodded, reaching foreward to get a handfull and quickly stuff them in her mouth before she could reconize what they were. She chewed quickly.. though not as fast as she had when Alec caught her. She swallowed, deciding to try and strike up some sort of conversation, and went to the thing that had been on her mind last. "What did you build?" And she was actually rather interested in that one... so it worked well.
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:28 am
"Wuh-what...? Ah... Oh! M-my... ah.. er... y-yes, w-well it's... um... s-sort of a truh-trap- an eff... an effuh.. ef-ffective trap," He managed, eating just as quickly and self conciously.
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:31 am
She took another bite as she listened, managing to finish by the time he finished through his stuttered sentance. "Oh?" She said simply in a way that urged him to continue "How does it work?" she added for good measure, taking another bug to pop in her mouth and eat as she listened, her stomach thankful for the meal.
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:07 am
"It... ah..." He fidgeted self conciously, "I... ah... w-well... insects are... atruh-attracted by swuh-sweat and sticky and guh-guh-garbagy th-things, right? I ah... m-made a concoction- r-rather I'm... s-still wor-working on a con-concoction th-that works well... It's ruh-rather luh-luh-lovely! Th-they f-fly following the sc-scent and g-get caught in the gruh-grill- and I suh-siphon them out into a huh-holding ch-chamber I m-made- the sm-sm-small ones c-can escape, but the luh-larger, b-better ones get stuck you see-" He prattled on, ethused over his little busy project.
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:21 am
Natsumi listened intently, even stopping her chewing of the crunchy bugs so she could better understand and hear him. Though it was difficult to place the sentance due to second language issues and his stutter, she managed just as well. Atleast the stutter gave her some in between time to figure out what the words were. "Aa.." she noted, smiling as he spoke. "Maybe... When you get the right..." she paused breifly to remember the word he had used "concoction you could maybe make me one too?" she offered hopefully, it really was a pain to try and get her own. She wasn't exactly a bug expert... She'd done everything in her life to keep them away from her, not draw them closer so she could eat them.
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