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 Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:02 pm
Pales walked along quietly with a small worried glance to the boy at his side. He didn't say much if anything at all, he got an "Armel." out of him and "Water."
Other than that the strange lad seemed content to keep quiet for the while. When Pales offered Armel his hand to go walking to the park, Armel wouldn't have any of that. With some bargining though Pales got the boy to at least hold on to a small bit of his jacket and they walked that way, though the lad still seemed offended by this.
Armel didn't seem too keen on the park, but again, with some coaxing the boy grudgingly nodded his head. Though while glaring up into Pales' eyes. Pales began to wonder if that was Armel's common expression or that the boy was possibly plotting to kill him in his sleep at some point for any transgression made. He got Armel to leave the hammer at home too. Goodness knows what would happen with that.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:07 pm
"No!" Came the forboding half-scream as Udell found himself being dragged in a bodily manner by the pipsqueak who fancied herself a faerie. Struggling, Udell tugged on his arm, although Tia held him firmly.
"It's for your own good, Delly-boo! You need to meet someone your own age." The pastle pink haired woman would light up almost immediately when she saw Pales, with a young boy. "Look! See? There!" She urged Udell as she waved her free hand, "Pales! Yoo hoo!"
Hanging his head, hissing at the 'Delly-boo', Udell struggled once more, but found himself being dragged towards the man and boy.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:35 pm
Again, the doe had the pleasure of escorting Vidya to her currently favourite place in all of Gaia: The Park. Now where was Enoh? Getting ready for her wedding, of course! The shapeshifter felt terrible about not spending enough time with Vidya, and she promised lots and lots of time after the wedding. Luckily for her, Vidya understood...Or at least seemed to. The tale was more than content with holding Mieke's hand as she was escorted to the park, and was happily skipping alongside the somewhat pregnant doe.
That was, of course, until she spotted the park itself. Her white eyes widening in pure excitement, the blue child dropped Mieke's hand (who was expecting this, and let go in the same second), and ran over towards her favourite place: the Monkeybars! She waved happily towards the black-haired boy as she passed him...and made a note to go back and say hi once she tagged the bars.
Hearing a woman call out to someone, Vidya lifted her head and looked behind her, thinking it was Mieke calling her back for some reason...and thus, she was distracted from watching where she was going--
--and toppled into the struggling, brown-haired boy.
"...OOF!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:46 pm
Pales barely registered the fact that he was being called upon until he noted who was seemingly looking at him and trying to get his attention. He recognized her right away, as there are not many girls with pink hair that he knew of, "Tia! Hi!" He noted her struggling charge with a faint blink, "Something..new?"
Armel noted the 'charge' as well. Narrowing his eyes in a sort of a studying behavior. He barely noticed the blue girl streaking by, though Pales kind of did a double take after noticing the girl run past waving at ...Armel? My she was friendly and very blue. Pales glanced back to see who was caring for her and made note of it nodding his head to the pregnant looking figure. Was the blue girl hers?
Armel watched the girl then went back to studying Udell. Though he seemed a bit startled when the girl came running back and soon made a collision with Udell.
"..." Armel just blinked while Pales gasped.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:51 pm
Tia grinned at Pales, starting to open her mouth when she felt a sharp tug on her arm, the arm she was holding onto Udell with. Letting go and looking down she blinked when she noticed the pile of Udell and a blue girl. Blink. Blink. Blink. Tia dropped to her knees suddenly and started to try and sort the pile out. Trying to help them the best she could.
Udell shoved the offender away roughly, "Stupid.. Bloody.." He began before Tia's hand clasped over his mouth and smiled at the girl. He narrowed his eyes at Tia, sinking his teeth into the soft flesh of her palm, smirking as she squealed and yanked her hand away. Getting back to his feet after pulling away from Vidya, Udell looked between her and the boy by Pales side.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:27 pm
Vidya didn't remember running into the boy, nor did she remember hitting the ground. The instant she had ran into him, Vidya's senses seemed to shut down, the pupil disappearing from her right eye...though it was doubtful that anybody else would notice. The missing right pupil returned once she blinked, and the blue child found herself on her feet.
Her time standing was severely cut short as she was shoved, the girl letting out a squeak of surprise before stumbling back and falling onto her butt. By the time Mieke had ran to her side, Vidya was staring at the boy in utter confusion.
"I'm so sorry...she's usually more careful...Vidya, apologize!" The doe's command was laced with confusion. Normally, the tale would have been smothering the other child with apologies...but this time, Vidya was staring at her now, as if questioning what she had done to apologize. Mieke noted this, and quietly spoke her next few words with the intention of clueing the child in. "Vidya...apologize for running into him."
Vidya blinked her blankly staring eyes, turning her attention back to Udell. She ran into him? Leaning her head to the side, she looked down at herself. Her chiton had a bit of dirt on it, and her knees were scraped a little...maybe she had? "M'sorry...did'n mean to..."
She was so confused, she hadn't remembered her upon-meeting custom...for now.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:12 pm
Armel just blinked at the chaos. He mostly stared at the boy who bit the woman who covered his mouth. He was an interesting bloke. A bit nippy if anything, he thought. He narrowed his eyes in a studying manner again making him appear a bit shrewd before his gaze turned to the blue girl and her current caretaker. Interesting skin color. The boy was a bit pale too, not that Armel could tell the direct difference just yet. After all Armel didn't have enough to base that sort of comparison on anything. The blue girl, Armel thought, was a bit of an airhead, but then assuming such things would get him in trouble. For now he stayed silent though there was nothing much he could say at this point. His speech seemed somewhat limited after being brought into the world. Such was the price of rebirth, not that Armel was aware of this fact.
Pales blinked and looked at Tia upon the squeal, "Are you okay? Did he bite hard?" He looked at the boy with a furrowed brow and a worried look. He certainly seemed violent, and foul tempered, but then again Armel seemed pretty foul tempered too at times. He then looked to the being that rushed to Vidya and made her apologize, "It is okay..I think.." He smiled at the blue girl but he looked mildly perplexed. Did it just so happen that the two children came from that Stationary Shop? Perhaps not..It would be far too coincidental and freakish.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:46 am
Tia looked up at Pales, rubbing the palm of her injured hand (with the thumb of her other) in soothing circles. "I'm fine, hes just.. testy.. right now." She slowly looked around at the congregation of six, standing around akwardly, or at least she seemed akward.
Udell brushed a set of long, pale digits through his hair, and the strands that had gotten out of place complied, falling nicely back into their uniform style. Crossing his arms over his chest as Vidya's older companion tried to get her to apologize, a smirk snaked out to firmly plant itself on his face, that was until Tia spoke her peace.
"Your turn, Udell. Tell.. Vidya is it?.. that you're sorry for knocking her down." Tia prompted him as she rubbed her hand, casting an apologetic look at Mieke and Vidya.
Glowing, amber eyes narrowed as they turned to look up at Tia in defiance, staying silent - he wouldn't apologize to that girl. When Tia finally turned away from the stare, he looked over to Armel, a scowl darkening his expression when he noticed the way he was staring at him.
"I'm sorry for him, unfortunately he doesn't seem to have come equipped with any sort of manners." Raising a hand to rub her forhead as the children stared at each other in mostly silence she looked at Mieke and Pales, "Want to grab a table?" They might as well, since well.. why not?
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:32 pm
Vidya's sidewings twitched as she looked around. This was definately very, very odd...and somehow, she was in the centre of it. Blinking a bit, she then crawled onto her feet and slowly dusted herself off. With an usual silence, she looked from the boy with the ram horns to the one she had apparently collided with. Vidya had never seen them before, sooo...she now took this chance to find things about them that she liked.
The blue child turned her attention to Udell first, the boy she had ran into. "Hiya...M'Viddy...n'...you gots pretty hair. S'like...all sorts of brown colours." She offered this, completely brushing off the fact that she might or might not have ran into him. She really did like his hair though...multi-tonal anything, even if it was tones of brown, was always fun to look at.
Next she turned towards Armel, the one who'd just been staring at them, up to this point. "N'you gots horns. Viddy likes! N'pretty braids...Like Jiro's, only all...fire like! I have a braid too, see?" She smiled proudly, drawing her single-braided, blue-streaked white hair over her shoulder.
With a very uncharacteristic shyness over her complete black out moments before, she quietly slipped a few steps back to Mieke once she had finished what she wanted to say, leaning against the kneeling doe and holding her arm. She'd never felt so silly in her entire, if not short, life...
Mieke shook her head slowly in Tia's direction, mouthing 'I really don't think she even remembers that.'..Hopefully the woman could read lips. Why have the boy apologize for something Vidya obviously didn't recall? With a soft purr, Mieke reached over with her free hand to pet her charge in a comforting manner.
"A Table sounds rather nice...If you want, I can bandage that for you, miss." She offered politely, holding her free hand against her somewhat pregnant stomach and slowly getting to her feet. Vidya's grasp loosened, and her arm eventually fell back against her own side.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:57 pm
Armel's attention became distracted between the two young ones. The adults didn't interest him as much at this point no matter who they were, how weird any of them are, or what they looked like. The children were his concern. What were they all about. He watched Vidya compliment the brown-haired boy, who was glaring at him. A thought crossed his mind and that was to stick his tongue out at the boy but he didn't do it. He was above that or so he felt, so he just narrowed his eyes a bit more at the boy in a faintly challenging manner. When it came his turn to be spoken to by the girl he blinked. He never really paid much attention to them, or his horns. Who was this Jiro person anyways? Pah, unimportant. She gave a name, what was his again?
"Armel." The ram horned boy replied to the girl. What was the other word? To show he appreciated her compliments? Oh yes...Pales said it once at some point, "Thanks." It was hard to tell if he carried any accent at all, he seemed a bit new to the whole speaking thing though he dared not admit it to anyone. Especially won't admit it to the boy who glared at him. Despite the boy's transgression of a glare he'd give him another 'chance' to make up for it when the time came.
Pales blinked at the exchange amongst the children for a moment before looking at the other adults, and with himself included he used the term lightly, "Ah, yeah sitting would be nice. Wouldn't it, Armel?" He addressed the boy. Armel peered up at Pales with a faint squint before peering at the children again.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:11 pm
Tia nodded to Mieke, giving the appearance that she had understood the words that were mouthed to her, when she in all truths didn't. Heading over to a nearby table, she shook her head. "No, it's alright, the skin isn't broken.. just.. indented, it'll be fine - Just have to get my rabies shot again." She joked playfully.
Udell rolled his eyes when he heard the others introduce themselves, "Udell." he informed them in his soft voice. He could definately begin to agree with the boy, although the girl would take some further examination to see if she was compatable. He lacked the desire to compliment the other two, so he simply didn't - instead he let his eye draw away from them and sweep the park. Something tightened in his chest when he spotted a fledgeling tree and he seemed to just stare at it over Armel's shoulder, ignoring the rest of the happenings around him.
Tia rubbed her forhead with her unbitten hand. "To your question earlier, Pales. Yeah, something new. La says she found him in a stationary store, I think that's cute, don't you?" She giggled, "I think she adopted him, but didn't want to tell me she did because she kept telling me over the years that she didn't like children. I mean, children just don't show up randomly in stores." She obviously hadn't been in Gaia long.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:34 am
"Armel....Udell" Vidya repeated to herself, looking down at her hands for one reason or another. Figuring she had their names alright, and also figuring she'd remember them (which she always did, but considering the earlier blank out; that might change), she leaned her head back to look up at the adults...or rather the doe that was now moving towards the table to take a seat. The blue child looked over at the other two tales.
"Uhm...Viddy'll be back." She waved her fingers, then ran after Mieke, throwing her arms over the teen's knees once she reached her destination. "Dun wanna sit down, 'eke...C'n Viddy play? Please?"
"Oh...well at least it isn't serious...there are some kids who can draw blood." Mieke flinched at the thought of Damien, her mate's half-demon nephew. When Vidya came running over, the doe was smart enough to brace herself for getting flopped on, and once the child was infront of her, she tugged lightly on the girl's sidewing. "Sure...go play if you want. Just be careful, and don't go too far, alright?"
Her ears then twitched at the mention of a stationary store. So those children over there are tales! Mieke turned to face the other two after Vidya had ran off again. "A Stationary Store? My Mom found Vidya there...and my Dad found Adonis there as well." She giggled, recalling the stories both of her adoptive parents had to tell. "I didn't believe it at first, either!"
"Lets play, lets play!" Vidya urged the two with a giggle once she reached them once more. Earlier shyness? What shyness?
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:11 am
Pales blinked at the mention of the stationary store, "That is where I got Armel..." He shook his head, "Weird coincidence if you ask me, for us to meet like this..." Then he listened to Mieke as he began to move to the table which wasn't all that far. Armel had long let go and stood stationary, Pales didn't seem to notice. Though the young man probably did, "Vidya? Adonis? Vidya is the cute little one with you now right?" He was horrid at remembering name. He'd probably had called her something like Vivienne or something if Mieke hadn't said the name again. Pales glanced at Tia after a moment, "I'd still like to meet La, oneday." He nodded then looked at Mieke, she had no idea what his name was, must remedy that, "Sorry for my rudeness, after the chaos it sort of blew over my head. My name is Pales D'Arcy." He said to Mieke.
Armel watched Udell for a moment, what was he looking at. Paint a picture, it lasts longer, at least that is what he thought to himself til' he bothered to try and see what the boy was staring at and thus glancing slightly over his shoulder and saw the cause of the stare ... A young tree. Sure something stirred in Armel too in some fashion, but probably not as much as it did in Udell. He barely noticed the blue girl running off before she came back and asked if himself and Udell wanted to play thus causing him to look at her and forgetting what he was feeling. He wasn't sure if it was dislike, adoration, or just the feeling of oh, it's a sapling, how nice.
"Play?" He raised an eyebrow. What is this playing thing. It's something Pales went on and on about. Put toys in front of him and told him to just play. Unlike most children the playing instinct didn't seem born in him. He almost said no, but then it would be a good way to see how the girl 'ticked'. So Armel's mouth twitched slightly, a smile? Maybe, it tried to be a smile, "Yes." He said simply.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:20 am
Tia's mouth turned into a small 'o' when she heard the other two talk about 'getting' their children at the stationary store. That ment that La still didn't want children? What about Udell? Shifting from her obvious discomfort at the idea, she instead focused on the introductions. "Tia Amlin, pleasure to meet you Mieke." Taking a moment to think about Pales request to meet La, she chewed her lower lip, "Maybe soon then. She has this weekend off. Plus.." She hazarded a look towards the two tales that were decidedly not female, and smiled. "I think it'd be good for Udell to make friends, no?"
Despite the unnerving feeling that being watched brought, Udell wasn't shaken out of his revere until Vidya and Armel started to chatter about playing. Blinking once or twice, his posture relaxed and the tight set of his jaw loosened as he looked between at the two of them - trying to deny the nagging feeling that overcame him."Play what?" He asked warily, a hint of curiousity colouring his voice as he allowed Vidya to reach for him, although if she started to drag him that'd be it - Udell had had enough of being dragged around. He looked at the tree again, but tore his eyes away from it to look at the other children.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:26 am
"Yes, that's our little Sea monster." Mieke giggled, conferming what Pales had asked concerning the child's name. "And Adonis belongs to my Dad. He's Vidya's little brother, and he's a tale as well." In all honesty, Mieke hadn't really noticed that they hadn't introduced themselves yet. Really though, they hadn't had the time to do so, considering the run-in a few minutes earlier. "Oh! Nice to meet you then, Pales, Tia...if its alright to call you that. I'm Mieke Odim for now...I'll be Mieke Love soon." She smiled sweetly, figuring she'd give both of her names, just incase. She figured her last name would change along with her Mother's.
Curiously, Vidya eyed the tree both boys were staring at. Trees were very pretty, and she loved trying to climb on them...but it was any form of water that caught her fancy, obviously. But hey, at least they admired nature, right? That was always good!
Her white eyes moved towards the other two again, as one agreed to play, and the other inquired about the game. She gained a rather pondering look, looking around the park. "Play..." Tag? There was a lot of room for that. Hide and Seek? Whoa, the park had so many hiding places! On the monkeybars? Climbing was fun. Duck Duck Goose? Doesn't work with only three. Make-believe? Vidya somehow doubted they'd be into playing pretend.
Gah, so many things to choose from! She'd have to ask them what they wanted to do...
"Lotsa games to play! Uhm...Hide n' Seek, Tag, Pretend...uhm..." She relayed her ideas to them, still looking around the park. Her gaze then fell on the ground. She hadn't realized it when she had fallen, but the ground was damp from a previous rain. And that meant that there was mud around. "Mud fights.." She spoke quieter than before, as if it were an afterthought. Shaking her head, she turned her body to face the two boys again. "Viddy c'n't decide...all so much Fun! What you two wanna do?"
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