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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:34 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:49 pm
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Naïveté blinked a few times, then smiled hesitantly. "Oh," she said softly. "Is that...fun?" She supposed it must be, because why else would Maxy have brought it up?
Her eyes flickered over to Curiosity, as though seeking some sort of reassurance. She was a little bit nervous about this whole thing. "Could you...tell us more about it?"
Reticence had caught Maxy's sidelong glance at him when she had suddenly sagged down in her chair. His eyes went cool, a little bit of weariness showing through the sudden chill of temper. He wasn't any different than he had been, damn it. Just because she knew a little bit more now, what the hell was he supposed to do about it?
It wasn't as though he could help it.
"I'm going to go to the workroom," he said quietly, getting to his feet. "I have some things to see to, and the master will want to speak to me soon."
Naïveté looked up at him with shock in her eyes, and Curiosity went still. When the master wanted to talk to Reticence, it meant something very bad was usually about to happen - often to the boy himself.
Didn't know fear?
Reticence knew the fear better than any of them.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:25 pm
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Maxy sighed, giving up. She offered them a fake smile, "forget it, I guess it's not that fun, anyway." she waved her hand dismissively. Now, she supposed, she was just being insensitive to the others that had spend such a long part of their lives in hiding.
She didn't know any meaning being Reticence's words, not having been there long enough to. She simply nodded good bye and cast her attention back to the others. He didn't seem like he wanted her attention, anyway, it was no matter to her.
She munched on her breakfast food, but her appetite was gone, and she was suddenly afraid that she would lose herself, while she was there.
Manic turned her vision with tints of blue depressant and she rested her chin on the table. She never thought she'd actually miss earth at all.
Her insides gnawed at her, driving her to grab her own wrist under the table, and squeeze until she was sure her nails were embeded deep into the skin, releasing the tension that she knew no other way of getting rid off. The marks would not stand out too much against the multiple scars that clearly said this was not the first time it happened.
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:39 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:08 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:17 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:11 pm
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Curiosity looked a little surprised, but more markedly, he looked relieved - like he'd been afraid she'd say no and insist on staying in the house. "Oh. Okay. I mean, that's great. Let's...let's go." He turned away, heading towards the courtyard.
He led the two girls through the maze of corridors until they finally reached a small, creaking door. In front of it, he paused and looked back over his shoulder at them. "Well, here we are."
Naïveté shuffled her feet nervously. "Yes."
Curiosity took a breath and opened the door, shooing them both outside hastily before closing the door - there might have been a faint sound, like a muffled cry, but he'd shut the door too fast to be sure.
Their version of 'outside' really was nothing like any outdoors found on Earth. That smooth black stone extended across the open area in the centre of the house, at least where it wasn't covered with a large amount of dusty brown needles - they seemed to have fallen from the small, stunted trees, or maybe they were bushes, that rose here and there. Small creatures that resembled birds only in that they had wings looked up from where they nestled among branches. One of them let out a high-pitched shriek and aimed for Naïveté, landing on her shoulder and beginning to nibble at her hair and ear with its sharp teeth. The girl giggled - actually giggled - as she reached up to pet the monstrosity. "Hi, sweetheart," she crooned.
Curiosity drew a long tube-shaped machine out of a cleverly hidden panel built into the outer wall. "We have to clean up the needles and feed the pets," he explained to Maxy. "Well, I guess we don't have to, but it doesn't seem to get done if we don't. Want us to show you how?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:59 am
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:48 am
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Curiosity hauled on the tube, which gave with curiously little resistance, until enough had slid out that he could walk from one end of the courtyard to the other without difficulty. "Okay, so it's pretty easy," he explained. "We usually just hit these buttons here," he pointed them out, "and point the tube at the needles. It sucks them up and turns them into...something, I'm not sure what, but we use it to help the trees grow."
"What about feeding the pets?" Naïveté asked. "You should tell her--"
"We'll keep doing that for now, unless one of them takes a liking to her," said Curiosity firmly. "We'll start with this."
He offered the long tube to Maxy. "Want to give it a try?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:06 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:27 pm
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Curiosity smiled, looking markedly relieved. "Yes," he replied, "just like that." Sometimes the hose would spasm and try to swallow the one working it, but for now it seemed to be behaving, so he thought he'd just keep that tidbit of information to himself for now.
The birds, meanwhile, were observing Maxy right back. A few of them chirped and chittered, but mostly they were silent, examining this new addition.
After a few minutes of silence, broken only by the whirring and hungry champing noises of the hose, one of the birdlike creatures cheeped once and flew across to land on Maxy's shoulder.
"My feeder!"
Its little voice sounded high-pitched and gravelly and rusty and generally unpleasant, but also as though it were curious.
"Mine!"
"Oh dear," murmured Naïveté. "That one likes you."
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:17 pm
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