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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:05 am
Sayuri peered out of her door, looking both ways before venturing outside fully. She had remembered to bring the key, and as the door clicked shut behind her, she stuffed the fob into her obi.
'Ichi, ni, san!' she giggled to herself as she managed to walk three paces without falling on her face or behind. Well, it would be shameful if she fell over, she was only wearing geta and they were nowhere near in height to those torturous okobo. She wasnt in earshot, or sight of her onesan and so she had decided to wear something easier. Besides, she was still woozy from banging her head.
By now she had wandered a bit away from the Duplexes and she turned round to look at them, breathing in the Island air. It really was pretty here..but did they all contain Maiko like herself? That really couldnt be, why would her Danna-san need so many? Well, thoughts like that confused her only further. She would enjoy this freedom before her lessons started anew, and with this thought she slowly wandered away from the buildings, walking without much aim, the breeze catching her long sleeves as she went.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:17 am
Newt, meanwhile, had been hopping along the path of the duplexes towards the cafeteria. He wasn't going to *into* the cafeteria, of course, rather the dumpsters he knew they kept behind, and the lunch he might find swarming around there, drawn by the smell of the other islander's left overs. He had gotten a lot better at hopping over his time in his new body, and was growing more comfortable in his amphibious state. His mind kept trailing back to Natsumi, though, and Thom- What a delemma.
That was when he spotted a flaire of kimono and had to swirve his tragectory, tripping over his ownlarge feet to stumble and tumble in the dirt nearby with a startled cry. He was getting better, but still not a natural just yet.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:27 am
Sayuri first heard an oddish sort of noise, a shuffling flopping along the ground. When she saw Newt however she stopped dead, a hand fluttering over her open mouth.
'Are you alright?' Sayuri rushed to help the fallen man. Of course! He had to be in a costume. She had seen a kabuki or two, knew about theatre but hadnt quite seen anyone this elaborately costumed. But that's what it had to be right? She fell to her knees right beside him, having caught her skirts in a geta, her hands getting grazed, and one of the wooden sandals sitting on the ground behind her.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:31 am
"Ah- oh! I'm suh-suh-sorry! I... I d-duh-duh-duh-didn't hit you did I? Y-you sup-sup-suprised me!" Newt managed, looking over her strange makeup and dress with his unnaturally large froggish eyes. Masks didn't blink, nor did costume-shoes wiggle their toes as he tried to pull himself back upright into a froggish crouch from having fallen onto his rear. "Ah-" looking her over, it was startingly easy to tell that she was still human under her makeup. Oh dear.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:37 am
Well he obviously didnt know her language and so she slowly answered him;
'It ok. I fall over shoe,' she pointed to her lonely geta on the path.
'I am sorry,' she bowed her head to him, pressing her hands into the dirt and then sat up again. When he moved though...she shuffled back on the ground, the weight of her kimono preventing her from moving away fast.
'What are you!' she squeaked through a suddenly dry mouth. Her heart raced as she beheld this..frogman!
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:41 am
He had heard that language befor- like Natsumi! Was it chinese or japanese? He never could tell. The bow was certainly strange... At her sudden alarm, though, he shifted back away from her in his own alarm, "Ah! D-duh-duh-don't- I... I'm human! Wuh-was human! Ah... d-don't b-be scared it's nuh-not ah..." Oh snap! she was new wasn't she? That just made things all the better. Internally he gave a worried groan.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:56 am
Through the mangled words broken up by his stutter she managed to hear his declaration. He was human? How could that be? Sayuri was utterly terrified of his appearance - and at the same time it was probably the strangest and most exciting thing she could recall in her life. Fleeing wasnt an option really; she wouldnt get 10 yards without falling again, and he seemed more terrified of her then she of him. Which was a new experience for her. Now that she looked at him properly, straight at him, she wondered how she could have mistaken his form for a costume.
'I sorry. You scare me, I'm really new. I not see thing like you before.' she said.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:02 am
Thing like you- Newt's head dipped down as he swallowed deeply, "Ah... I'm... I'm... nuh-not... th-that um... s-strange... com-com-compaired to... to... m-most things on th-this island...." He managed, trying to keep his word choice simple for the foreigner. And it was true, wasn't it? "I'm ah... r-rather... er... com-com-common, in fact..." Was he going to have to explain everything toher? He supposed it was better him than one of the more... bitter islanders who might give her the impression that the place was *evil* or something.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:08 am
'O-thers?' she asked, the worry coming back. Here she thought she had been sent here to finish her training and be close to her Danna-san. Her forehead wrinkled as she tried to digest all this.
'Can I?' a hand had emerged from her kimono sleeve and she reached out towards Newt. It was probably bad of her that she wanted to touch him to see what he felt like, but her curiosity was overwhelming her training at that moment.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:12 am
He instinctively flinched back, his throat suddenly swelling up with air befor he gave a frightened croak. Once it was out of his system, he settled slightly, holding his ground if she still wanted to see how slimy the janitor really was.
"Ah... th-the... others on the i-island? Th-there's... um... y-yes... others... luh-like yuh-you and muh-me... duh-different... animals..." He hoped he wasn't scaring her too badly.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:50 pm
Her outstretched fingers shook, betraying her nerves. Sayuri had to do this though and she brushed his arm, her fingers pushing into his squishy skin. She pulled them away again, holding them up to her face and rubbing her fingers together, the slight slickness made her shiver a little.
'I not here to be an-i-mal,' she said, wondering why he had included her in his 'others'.
'I am here to be with Danna-san,' she nodded.
'I am sorree..sorry for you, but I not like you.'
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:58 pm
He swallowed. Where was Natsumi when he needed her? She could have explained much better in chinese to the woman- or korean... or japanese... whatever language it was they both seemed to speak. "Ah... n-no... ah... I... um... " He gave another nervious croak, straightening up and looking embarassed as she examined his amphibious slime. "Er... th-that is to say... th-this island... puh-people are truh-tricked here. It's puh-part of... how th-things woo-woo-woh-work here... b-but... it's... it's nuh-not a b-bad th-thing!" He was terrible at this explaining thing, wasn't he? Ease her into it. He'd be a good employee, they'd see. He'd explain and this woman would understand and be a good subject just like him.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:59 pm
Sayuri had pulled out a tissue from her under her obi, wiping her hands before balling it and putting it to one side.
'I do not know your meaning,' she said, finally standing and grabbing her geta before slipping it back onto her foot.
'I am here to be with Danna-san,' she repeated firmly. Anything else was just some trick being played on her. Her mama, or her onesan had to be in on this, seeing whether she would crack or falter when away from the hanamachi and okiya.
'You may be trick, but I not trick.' she tried to look crossly at him, for his false words but he just looked so funny to her now. Not scary - just like a travelling performer who performed tricks and pretended to fall over for a few yen.
'What is your name trick man?' she asked, her english coming easier the more she spoke and recalled.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:11 pm
He blinked at her, not quite understanding her broken english, "I... ah... Nuh-newton, miss..." He swallowed as a dragon fly swooped by, flitting about the japanese girl's kimono befor his tongue suddenly shot out to end it's life in a terrible snap and crack under his teeth, the wings poking out from between his lips as he chewed.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:18 pm
'What you do Newton?' she asked, before getting stunned into silence at his actions. What travelling performer had ever been able to do that? She felt a little dizzy, her head starting to ache again along with her arm.
'You eat fly??' she asked, trying not to sway on her feet. Sayuri really felt that she should lay down. Maybe sleep. She blinked a little as Newton danced before her eyes, then there were two Newtons and then one again.
'Ohhhh..'
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