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Sika stood in an aisle of the toy store, a fairly colourful cd in her left hand, and a fairly verbal child tugging on her hair on her left side while gumming a piece of stringed cheese. With her eyes narrowed towards the CD she sighed a little and turned her gaze towards the child, who greeted her with a sharp pull of her long, blonde hair.

By now she had already been getting used to his tugs of her hair, and his squeals of excitement whenever he happened to tug any strands from her head. She had kept her hair long, even after many warnings from experienced mothers that it would be her famous last words. It kept him happy, so why should she care? After so many tugs and bites, you finally just stop feeling anything.

Now as far as the CD goes....Well the small child, Elazu, had grown fond of yanking CDs off of displays and connecting them with Sika's temple until she grabbed it from him. Had it been merely for her reaction, or if he actually wanted the CD, she was never too sure. But he didn't always do it, and whenever he did they were always similar in genre, classical or rock. So after a while she finally started to look the CDs over, no matte rhow colourfuly sickening they were, and then put them in their shopping basket to take home. As it was their current basket was already starting to near the top, it seemed that Elazu had caught on.

" What am I going to do with you Elazu," she questioned the blubbering child on her hip. He answered with a smile and a garbbled answer from around his stringed cheese. She sighed and smiled softly.

Sika looked up from her reading and turned toward Smerdle and smiled in response.

" You get used to it, " she said as she hefted Elazu higher on her hip and turned him closer toward the other pair.

Elazu giggled as he waved his free hand at Smerdle's wiggling fingers. Then he caught sight of the other boy who in a sense could be considered his inverse. Elazu tugged closer to Sika as Shye approached, not afraid but weary. He was fond of checking things out slowly, not getting them thrown at himself. He let out a quiet whimper as he tugged Sika's hair again to get her attention.

Sika sighed and placed the cd she held into their already overflowing basket then reached to comfort Elazu.

" Deffiantly handfuls," she muttered as she tried to calm him down. It didn't take much, a few coos and promises of blocks of cheese when they get home, and he was fine.

She hefted him higher on her hip again and smiled as he returned to sucking on his stringed cheese, keeping a careful watch of Shye.

" Don't mind him. He gets upset if things happen too fast." She smiled as she turned back toward Smerdle, extending her free hand to the other girl.

" My name's Sika, and this little devil, is Elazu." Elazu squealed at the mention of his name, somehow knowing he was being introduced.

She smiled and nodded, " He loves music mainly rock and classical from what I can tell. Oh and cheese. As to why, I have no idea," she leaned her head against Elazu's as she spoke, giving him some comfort and hoping for him to grow some courage to actually interact with Shye.

Elazu giggled as he continued to stare at Shye, then suddenly offered the other boy his half eaten stringed cheese. Sika laughed with a surprised look on her face and turned him closer toward Shye.

" Elazu hasn't really met anyone else his size," she mused out loud. " Well except for the twins at home, but they are shy compared to your boy." She smiled at Shye and leaned in toward him. " Who, I might add, is a very handsom little man."

Elazu watched Shye with caution, but he did not cower away this time, but freely gave his new friend the gift of cheese. Elazu smiled softly and giggled as she snatched a lock of Sika's hair giving a great tug in order to get praise for being a good boy.

Sika smiled down at Elazu, barely even wincing when he pulled her hair, but absentmindedly started to pry his semi visible fingers from her hair.

"His hands are indeed interesting," she mused as she patted him on the head, finally getting her hair free. " It really depends, when I felt them for the first time, they felt like any other hands. But there are times where I wont be able to grab a hold of his hand at all, he'll even drop things without notice, but his hand will still be cupped as if he didnt even know it had happened." She shrugged and hefted him higher on her hip again, his constant squirming and jumping made him slide slowly down her hip. " I don'tknow what to think of it really," she frowned a little and looked up at Smerdle. "I mean I dont know whether its some ability or somethign thats just taking effect slowly? Its a real mystery, especially when he can't explain it to me."

As if sensing Sika's confusion, Elazu cooed and cuddled closer to her, petting her hair with his cheesy fingers. Sika smiled and kissed his forehead, then looked back up at Smerdle.

" What about Shye? i see his interesting outfit, can he actually fly with that?" Sika wasn't too keen about flying machines or flying abilities, so it was always somethign interesting to find out.

" Yes it is very weird. He does get frustrated whenever he notices that he dropped soemthign though. Its cute and sad all at the same time," she snickered as she said this and kissed Elazu's head again.

Elazu cooed and stared at Shye as he ate the cheese. The other boy had eaten his food, the food he had offered him. A sudden giggle escaped Elazu's mouth and he tried to wiggle his way closer to Shye while still staying in the safety of Sika's arms.

" Well a flying child could deffiantly b a problem. I have one of those at home, with hooves, and he likes to land on just about anything, tear things up and bumping into things." She sighed, thinking of the mess she would more than likely be going home to.

(( this is waaay late lol and Shye has grown...so i dunno if you'd liek to continue,, or just continue later once Elazu has grown aswell in a different setting? lol i'll just go with the latter and end it DX i'm sorry i took forever DX))

" Yea, he's a hand full." She smiled at the thought of her other kids at home. The thought suddenly made her curse under her breath. She had told her eldest son that she would only be gone for a moment or two to get Elazu some CDs.

" I would love to! Unfortuneatly I cannot. I promised my eldest I woudl only be gone for a little bit so he wouldn't have to watch the kids for too long. Raincheck?"

Hefting Elazu higher on her hip, she quickly used her free hand to fish out a card from her inner jacket pocket. She held out the white business sized card toward Smerdle with a smile.

" Thats my home phone number and my cell. We should hang out again when I have the time to let little Elazu actually have some fun." She snickered to herself then bent down to pick up her basket of CDs.