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[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy nodded and yawned into her hand.

She lightly murmured something about drawing 'him' when she got up, and yawned into her hand again.

She dropped onto her given bed and covered in the sheet, letting her muscles relax as her eyes drooped.

If they watched closely, they would see her exhale so much air that she seemed to deflate, and she looked small an insignificant all at once.

"Night Guys" and with that she drifted into a dreamful sleep.

((when's she gunna get her name?))  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

((OOC: Likely sometime in the "next day", though it's actually been like two weeks already. XD Also, shoooort poooooost. Sorry.))

The other three watched her fall asleep and glanced at each other. They didn't have to say anything - they all knew what had happened. And they understood.

Naïvete smiled a little bit, quietly, and squeezed Reticence's hand for a second. She was beginning to recover, and Curiosity had hope that he wouldn't have to worry much longer.

He and Reticence studied each other for a second. Then Curiosity smiled and dipped his head. The two males rose and left together, neither speaking - presumably on their way to their own room.

Naïvete curled up under her blankets once again, and gave a small, catlike yawn.

The next waking period would come soon enough. That thought in mind, she drifted off into a silent grey dreamscape, where she could finish putting herself back together.  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

((pfft, your short posts are like my long posts lol))

Maxy dreamt of things she'd never seen before, that night. Odd shaped plants that she thought might be flowers, poking up from a gray flat landscape that was neither flat nor bumpy. She felt like she was looking with her eyes closed.
After a while she felt trapped. Like her body was stuck sanding there dead to the world, and she could do nothing to move it. Her insides screamed an her mouth smiled.

Her body looked up and she watched herself be surrounded by keshvals. Her master was there, and reticence was next to him.
Curiosity looked sad, but Naivete was smiling next to him. Something growled an she couldn't figure out what it was.

The planet shook beneath her feet and a cave rose before her.
Sparkly, like the one back on earth.

She looked down at a small keshval girl sitting in the opening of the cave. The girl's skin was gray and her eyes matched her charcoal hair. Her lips were pale and her cheekbones were high. She opened her mouth to speak and a high pitch noise came out so loud that it woke Maxy with a start an she nearly fell from her bed. Panting, she looked around.

How long had she been asleep? It felt like forever.  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

Though at first it seemed that Naïvete still slept soundly, after a little while she began to shake her head and whimper. "No," she said softly, her voice full of sorrow and longing. "No, you can't. I'm sorry." She quivered once, then let out a long, soft sigh. "No, you can't."

Then she shifted, curled a little more into herself, and seemed to go back to sleep.

~

Reticence had remained awake after Curiosity went to sleep - he rarely felt the same weariness as the other two, and he had a lot to think about.

Who was his mother? Did he have one? It might have felt like a silly question, but until today he'd never known anything about his past at all, and it was just as likely that Marcelius had somehow grown him out of a test tube or something. But if he had done that, where had the other half of him come from? Why choose a human when he could have created a full Keshval, one who wouldn't be an embarrassment?

The boy had a lot of questions, but Marc had shown a distinct aversion to giving him answers. And that was a problem, but it didn't really matter - he'd find his own answers. Somehow.

He tilted his head up and smiled when he felt that soft, questing presence. It wasn't something he talked about, that presence - the one that felt like a part of him and yet something else, something other. It just was.

It came and went as it pleased, but he was always happy to feel it when it was there.

"Hello, little one," he whispered into the night. "Back again, are you?"  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy watched Naivete for a while before getting. She used a scrap if cloth to tie it backing a pony tail. She felt like she needed to bathe. She missed the feel of water against her skin.

She rolled up her given pants so that they were shorts and started out the door. There was no good in laying around if she was already up.

She was a slave, so wouldn't there be chores for her to do or something? Anything to fill the space.

Going into the hallway, she was hit with the urge to explore again.
And, soon enough her feet were moving whether she meant them to or not.

So many rooms to check!

There was a skip in her step, and she hummed softly as she turned random corner after random corner, noting that she passed the boy's room as she went.
She figured if she got TOO lost, the others would know how to find her. They always did, after all.  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

Maxy would, after enough wandering, eventually find her way to a bathroom of sorts. It wasn't anywhere near as simple as the one that had been on Marc's ship - this one, like everything else, seemed to consist of strange statuary that turned out to be actual appliances.

The rooms she'd looked in along the way would all be extremely different - Marc's decorating style was eclectic, to put it kindly.

((OOC: Feel free to dictate some of the stuff in the house, if you want - I really am not that possessive about settings. XP
Also, extremely short post - I'm sorry. I'm kind of shoving one in while I try to write essays and quizzes and s**t. >.<))  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy closed the door behind her and poked around at the equipment. Needless to say she could not have been happier when a shower-like stall popped outbid the wall at the push of a button. Push another button, and the water popped on.

She hits. She scores!

She looked both ways carefully, and nervously.
It would be worth it.

She stripped quickly and got into the warm water. It felt so nice!

She scrubbed at her hair and skin, washing off the sweat an grime.  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

After about fifteen minutes, there was a creaking in the open wall - someone else was coming into the room. Reticence entered shortly afterward, glancing absent-mindedly around. He thought he'd heard water running...?

But then he glanced in the direction of the shower stall, and went pale. The smoky glass-like substance was mostly opaque, but he could still see...

Going even paler, he hastily retreated from the bathroom and went back down the hall. He was just going to stay in here. And not leave. For at least another half an hour.

He knew he was blushing, but couldn't figure out why. It wasn't like he didn't know what women looked like. It wasn't like...well, it wasn't like he hadn't seen it before. But still.

Awkward.  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy was nearly done in the shower when she thought she heard something, but by the time she turned around there was nothing there.

"Hello?" She tried to see through the steamy glass, but it just looked like the bathroom.
After a moment she shrugged. Oh well.

She continued to wash for around 5 more minutes before she fiddled with the button that had turned on the water. It works and she finally got it off.

Instead of looking for towels that weren't out in the obvious, she waited for a little, letting her body air dry in the little stall.

Only after ANOTHER 10 minutes, did she pull the slave garments back on and search around for something to pull through her hair to get rid of the tangles.
Her wet hair dripped down her back, givig her spine a chill.  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

Reticence spent the next twenty minutes or so curled up on his cot in a ball of embarrassment and irritation. He'd just walked into the room at the wrong time, that was all. It wasn't that big a deal, it really wasn't. It wasn't like he had known that someone was in the shower.

Curiosity had woken up while he was muttering to himself, and a quick grin had crossed the blond male's face briefly. For that alone, Reticence could probably have cheerfully strangled him.

"I'm going to go check on the girls," Curiosity said finally. "We need to make sure Naïvete eats."

Reticence just nodded, his face still hidden in the cot, and waved a hand for him to go ahead. Looking puzzled but amused, Curiosity wandered out.

If Reticence wouldn't tell him what was wrong, he'd just ask the girls.  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy found her way back to the room, running her fingers through her soggy hair, which was already lacing a large wet spot on the back of her shirt.

Stretching her arms above get head as she entered, she asked,

"Hey, Naïveté, do you have a comb or brush I could borrow?"

She sat on her cot and watched the other girl.  

[SilentShadowDreamer]

Naïveté didn't even look at her from where she was curled up in a sleepy bundle on top of her blanket. "Mmm," she mumbled obscurely into her cot. "'n cubburd. Y'know, tadraar."

If Maxy correctly interpreted this as "In the cupboard. You know, the top drawer," she'd be able to find a fine-toothed black comb hidden in the back of it. It kind of brought up the question of why the girl had had such tangled hair when they'd first met - although probably by then, looking after herself had been one of the last things on her mind.

It was the kind of thing you stopped thinking about after a while.

Naïveté was still apparently half-asleep when Curiosity poked his head in. "Oh, there you are," he said cheerfully. "We should all go get food. C'mon, Naïveté."

"Go 'way."

Curiosity ignored her mutterings, grinning at Maxy. "I don't suppose that either of you know what Reticence is so flustered about? He came in muttering to himself and refuses to leave the room." His cheerful smile dimmed slightly - had the other male cracked under the strain after all?

No, it hadn't seemed like that.  

[iiGypsy_Jazz]

Maxy only half understood what naïveté said, but after digging around managed o find the comb to run through her hair.

"oh hey!" she greeted Curiosity with a large smile, as she pulled the comb through her raven locks.
The red stood out much more when it was wet.

Thinking about what he said, she tapped her chin. She'd thought she'd made such great progress. She wondered if it was the same thing that had upset him before. His new 'secret'.

Not knowing if he'd told the others she suggested, "Maybe I should go talk to him. Y'know... Talk him into eating with us." she smiled in a way that she hoped was reassuring.

Of course, she didn't realize how wrong she was, but how could she know? She didn't suspect a thing.

Since things between her and Reticence were pretty much cleared up before they'd gone to sleep, it wasn't really too 'out there' of a suggestion.