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 Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:46 pm
It was amazing, Wing Ting thought, how much a night of sleep could amplify guilt by a million billion times. Granted, while she was talking with Lucrezia, Wing Ting was able to forget her little social embarassment the other day, involving a certain tall albino man and some mud, but once she had fallen a sleep and woken up the next morning, Wing Ting was even more depressed than she had been laying in the mud with her dress ruined. Wing Ting didn't eat breakfast that morning, she was so depressed. Wing Ting didn't even smile that morning, she was so depressed.
Thus, the normal bubbly young girl was sitting off in the (dry) grass behind the Circus tents, sulking, an abysmal look on her face. "Life's a poopie," She muttered, plucking grass out of the ground with one hand and tossing it into the air.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:58 pm
Ankita was out that day on a walk with Sarava, who was off a short distance in front of her, weaving in and out of a straight line, smelling things here and there to see if they were good for eating, until stumbling upon the little girl sitting in the grash. She slowly crouched down into the grass, stalking her quietly, making her way around here, until finally popping out, and staring at her, trying to figure out who exactly she was.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:03 pm
AAAAAAAAH! MONKEY! A MONKEY POPPED OUT OF THE GRASS!
...Lemur?
Lemur monkey?
Monkey lemur?
Who cares! It was big! It was scary! It smelled bad! Wing Ting wheeled her arms in the air, shrieking at the top of her lungs. "OH MY GOD IT'S A SCARY LEMUR MONKEY THING OH MY GOD AAAAAAAH!"
Hey.
It was kinda cute.
Wing Ting blinked. "Hey, you're cute."
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:08 pm
Sarava looked to her Familiar then back at the little girl. What the...
Ankita quickly started calling Sarava over. Why did it seem as though everyone they came across, Sarava had to harass. The critter quickly scampered over and leaped into her arms, looking back at the small child.
"Sorry." Ankita said quickly. "And... she's not a monkey...or a lemur.."
She wondered when exactly anyone would get it quite right before Sarava would end up going on a blood thirsty rampage, stamping the word "Aye-Aye" on each victim's forehead.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:12 pm
Wing Ting blinked. "What's she, then? A...large squirrel?" The girl looked curiously at Ankita, who was also, Wing Ting was dismayed to see, very tall. Wing Ting had never seen anything like Sarava before, and was genuinely curious to find out what she was, though seeing this tall, dark, and rather lovely, apparition of a woman was quite intimidating. Wing Ting found that though her tongue pressed up against the roof of her mouth, she didn't make any move to ask more questions about the nature of this woman's pet.
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:20 pm
Ankita shook her head.
"No.. she's an Aye-aye" she could tell by the voice that this was likely a younger person she was speaking to, and softened her tone a bit. "Do you want to pet her?" She said leaning forward a little and holding out Sarava infront of her.
Sarava wasn't too sure how she felt about this. Little fingers. She fixated on the small hands and twitched a little. Little fingers meant big tugs, or at least that's what history had proven itself to mean.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:54 am
Wing Ting's eyes widened as the woman offered the opportunity to pet the...Aye-Aye? Wing Ting hesitantly raised a small hand (a very small and venerable hand that could easily be crushed by giant squirrel - Aye-Aye - teeth) and stroked the creature between the ears. "She's so soft," Wing Ting whispered, in awe. There weren't fluffy creatures like this where she was from. The only reason she knew about squirrels and such was from children's books. The girl stroked Sarava for a few more moments, and then withdrew her hands. "She's very soft, what's her name?" Wing Ting asked. And then she blinked. "What's your name?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:46 am
Sarava was on edge. Of all the young people she had met in her life, all of them seemed to have a facination with tugging on her ears or tail, something that she'd only really accept from Ankita. But after shutting her eyes tight and being delighed with the gentle touch, she finally relaxed.
Ankita smiled and laughed a little. "Yeah, she's very soft." Her fingers rubbing her between her ears. "Her name's Sarava, and I'm Ankita, what's your name?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:58 am
Wing Ting locked her hands behind her back, shifting her weight from foot to foot. "My name is Wing Ting. D'you work in the Circus? She asked Ankita, though she was watching Sarava with fascination. "Cause, I'm kind of working in the Circus, too, but not really, not yet, I'm just scrubbing floors and cleaning pens and stuff." She said. Wing Ting started scuffing her shoes again.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:06 am
Ankita nodded in empathy. "Been there." She gave a friendly smile.
"I work here, I do fortune telling. And my little baby helps me." She began rubbing her face against the back of Sarava, causing her to coo and almost pur. "What do you want to do, eventually?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:16 am
Wing Ting gazed up at the tall woman. "You read fortunes? D'you do that with magic or something?" She asked curiously, bouncing on the balls of his feet. She watched Sarava purr with a stab of envy. Sarava hadn't purred at her! "Uhm. I want to blow bubbles. But they're really cool bubbles, and they're different colors and shapes and stuff, so they're not boring bubbles." Wing Ting explained. Fortune telling sounded so much more interesting than blowing bubbles.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:25 am
"Well,..." Ankita didn't really like sharing the fact that she had periodic preminitions, and usually wanted to keep it hush hush. But she shrugged, figuring it was a young child she was speaking to, who'd be more amazed at the idea than freaked out.
"If you keep it between just the two of us..." Her voice came to a whisper, "Some of my fortunes do use a little bit of magic. But it's only when I do certain things, everything else just comes to me."
Sarava became lank in Ankita's arms, eyeing the little figure every now and then between the coos that escaped from Ankita's perfect petting.
"Blowing bubbles sounds very fun. I've never really been one to be good at it." Even when she did have vision, she never really got the real grasp of blowing good bubbles, it was either too much blowing or not enogh. And now that she'd lost it, she didn't really care for trying.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:44 am
Wing Ting's eyes widened. Magic! Ha! She was right! That meant that Ankita was obviously some kind of super-cool magical person sorceress thing. "Oooh." Wing Ting whispered, all eagerness and awe. "That sounds so cool,"
"Well, bubbles are fun, but they're hard to do, and it takes so much practice to get it just right." Wing Ting confided. "And plus, my bubble wand isn't something that's exactly common here, cause I'm not from here, you know? So, I dunno what I'm going to do if it breaks or something. It's in a safe place now," She assured the woman.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:55 am
Ankita nodded. "It's got it's coolness, I suppose."
She could only imagine what kind of wand it was that was so special that it couldn't be found elsewhere, or repaired. A few images of some fairly obnoxious looking objects came to mind, but she shrugged them off. She then began to realize that this was a youngling out on her own and raised an eyebrow.
"Shouldn't you have someone watching you..?" She hoped Wing Ting hadn't run away from her parents, since the responsibility of finding them would be a bit hard to take on.
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:59 am
Wing Ting blinked at Ankita, wondering why on earth she would need some one to be watching her. "Well, I just got out of the trailer a few minutes ago, and Lucrezia was in there, but why should I have someone watching me?" She asked curiously. "I'm not a baby or anything," She added, in case Ankita didn't understand that. She wasn't a baby! She was sixteen! She was just a bit shorter than most people who were sixteen. That's all. Really!
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