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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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 Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:49 pm
Snow still covered most every surface in Gaia's central park, evidence that spring hadn't quite hit in true force yet. The day itself was (relatively) warm and bright though, making for excellent weather for a walk around one of the towns or the park.
"N' I'ma gonna pilot a Firefly!! Jus' like Wash, mm!" Cheshire enthused, gesturing enthusiastically to his mother as he walked.
Chao watched her energetic son with an patiently amused look, keeping an eye out for any trees which he might accidentally walk into. Who would have thought half an episode of "Firefly" would do this to a toddler?
"And where are you going to get the Firefly, hrm?"
"Ah..." Cheshire paused, looking up to the bright blue sky. Where was he going to get a huge ship like the Firefly? "Mmm... I'll hafta find it," he murmured, trailing his glove covered fingers in the snow.
Chao flicked her wings, flapping them for half a beat, stirring up a little snow in their wake, and stepped forward to ruffle Cheshire's hair. "Hmm, well, don't worry, we've still got the park to explore, space can wait a bit, can't it?"
Cheshire looked up, thought about his mother's suggestion for half a second then nodded, "yah! Lessgo!" he cried and charged forward, bounding through the snow as fast as he could.
Which wasn't very fast at all, considering it was up to his knees.
Chuckling Chao followed after him.
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:53 pm
Elshiva plodded carefully through the snow, her frilly dress pulled up around her waist, displaying her white bloomers. She watched her steps carefully, not wanting to trip. This was, after all, just frozen water. She didn't want it melting on her.
Ivy followed, watching her daughter curiously. Her antennae flickered at the sight of a vaguely familiar woman not so very far away...
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:06 pm
Cheshire, who was now humming loudly to himself as he pushed forward, was wholly ignorant of the other Passenger nearby. Had he looked around he might've stopped, but, for the moment, he was in a tunnel vision state of mind, looking straight ahead and charing forward.
That state of mind died when, half a minute later, when he managed to trip on a piece of unexpectedly hard snowy-ice and fall on his face in the snow.
Chao barely managed to stifle a laugh at her poor son's expense. Honestly, how was it that every member of her family seemed to be a clutz when none of them were blood related?
"Chesh, honey, you okay?" she asked, leaning down.
"Mmtsmmwet," Cheshire replied through a mouth full of snow as he sat up, sporting a large amount of snow on his head which Chao immediately began to dust off with a small smile.
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:09 pm
Elshiva gasped. THE WATER HAD EATEN A BOY! She rushed forward, her knees rising up comically as she ran. Only when she reached the boy and his mother did she drop to her knees and place a hand on the boy's shoulder, silent and serious.
"Ooh! Oh, Ellie, dear! Oh my..." Ivy stumbled after, having quite a bit of trouble in the snow herself, "I'm sorry. Come on, Ellie. They don't need our help."
The toddler looked up to her mother. Of course the boy needed help! He'd just been eaten!
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:33 pm
Cheshire blinked, feeling slightly stunned from the snow, and stared, rather vacantly, at the new people who seemed to have appeared from nowhere.
It took a second to process that, not only were the peoples, but one of them was a person his size, at which point he smiled brightly and batted away his mother's dusting hands.
"Hallo!" he greeted Elshiva warmly.
Chao snorted as she was forcefully beat off and backed off. Looking over to Ivy she smiled in a sympathetic comrade-in-arms-'isn't-raising-a-bossy-toddler-great?' sort of way, "mmhmm, we're fine. But, it was very nice of you to come running to my son's aid like that," the second part of the sentence was directed toward the little girl.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:04 pm
Elshiva didn't so much as twitch. She continued to watch the boy, trying to tell if he had been possessed or irreparably damaged by the evil water.
"Ah..." Ivy trailed off, itching the back of her neck nervously, "Sorry about this. She's a bit...mmph...over-zealous at times. Ellie, say hi, honey."
Elshiva glanced up to her mother, and then back to the boy.
"Hello."
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:01 pm
Chao chuckled, "ah, no need to apologize, really. Toddlers will be as they are, n'suchwhat," she shrugged.
Cheshire tilted his head, curious about the curt and formal greeting.
He stared at Elshiva for half a second before suddenly breaking off and rummaging through his coat. Whenever people met and said formal things there were presents involved, weren't they? That was what happened on television.
Well, sometimes. Other times there were cows and kidnappings and sword-fights and men who repeated their names twice in different ways.
After a few seconds he produced a piece of paper and speedily folded it into a crane, which he presented to the girl.
"Nice to meet you...!" he said slowly, making sure he got out all the words right, then grinned warmly and reverted to normal speech. "M'Cheshire, who you?" of course, he knew her name already, but his mother had told him ten bahjillion times that it was rude to announce someone's name before they told it to him, even if he'd already heard it.
Why, he had no idea, but he didn't want to be lectured or get the promise of cupcakes later to be revoked.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:07 pm
Ivy half-smiled and nodded. This woman was certainly taking a random assault better than anyone had thus far.
Elshiva's eyes widened at the paper crane and she took it gently in her hands. She stared, looking on in absolute wonderment.
"I'm Elshiva," she said, her hard exterior broken through. She actually smiled slightly, "Thank you, Chesh'uh."
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:33 am
Cheshire positively beamed at Elshiva's reaction.
"Welcome, El-shiv-ah!" he replied, breaking up the name so he could feel it better (and have less of a chance of screwing it up).
Eyes bright he grinned at the girl brimming with excitement, "wanna play?"
Chao eyed her son with a small smile then looked over to Ivy, "well, since introductions are going around... I'm Chao, that one's mother," she nodded her head towards Cheshire, "it's nice to meet you miss...?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:45 am
Elshiva carefully folded the crane so it was mostly flat and held it up to her mother, waiting patiently.
"Ivy," the green-skinned woman replied, nodding slightly and smiling, "Just Ivy. It's a pleasure to meet you." She then noticed the bit of paper being held up to her and took it from the child.
Elshiva brushed herself off daintily and then nodded to Cheshire.
"What woul' you like t'play?"
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:00 am
Cheshire paused, looking at the snow and Elshiva considering, trying to think of a good game. The snow would make tag really hard .... "umh... oh!" grinning suddenly he smiled at her, "wanna play pretend?"
Chao regarded the two children for another moment before she became aware of the fact that icy water was starting to seep through the bottoms of her jeans. Shivering she looked around and smiled when she saw a small playground, complete with benches and the like.
Looking to Ivy she gestured towards the playground, "I don't know about you but my pants are getting cold and damp, want to head towards the playground? There are benches and a junglegym, great places to sit," she added brightly with a warm smile. "And, you know, things for them to crawl on," she nodded towards the kids.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:11 am
Elshiva said nothing. She simply nodded, clutching her now-dampened teddy bear to her.
"Sounds good to me," Ivy nodded and smiled, "C'mon, kids. We're gonna go over here where your mommies won't be all wet."
Elshiva looked up to her mother and simply followed her gesture, starting off toward the playground.
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:20 am
Cheshire tilted his head at Elshiva's quiet reaction before looking up at Ivy. Giving the green skinned woman a bright smile he chirped a warm "'kay!" before bounding exuberantly after Elshiva.
As soon as he fell into step with her he quirked his head and, smiling, asked "what's Elshiva wanna pretend play?"
Chao smiled and headed off after them.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:22 am
Ivy gave her wings an irritated flutter, antennae blinking, as she brushed off a mostly-cleared bench. She sat then, hands folded primly in her lap.
Elshiva shrugged at the boy. She had never played pretend before. It had just...sounded like fun. SHe honestly had no idea what she was doing.
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chaoticdivinity Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:33 am
Chao made a beeline towards the monkey bars which were situated not far from the benches. She pulled herself up on top and slowly stood up, snapping her wings out for balance as she walked towards the middle and, after toeing away the thin coating of snow, sat back down, beating her wings once before tucking them around her shoulders for some extra warmth.
"I'm queen of the world," she chirped, smiling over at Ivy.
Cheshire hummed to himself, pursing his lips in concentration, "we coul' plays... Princessies? Or dragons and nights? Or Space pilot? Or... all three," he noted consideringly with a slight gleam in his eye as he thought about the potential of space dragons.
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