asobouyo: (Playing outside is good for you!)
Elicia Hughes • Age 7 ([personal profile] asobouyo) wrote2010-09-22 09:36 pm

4th Teddy Bear [Action][Forward-dated to daytime]

[A relatively normal day, so far. Elicia'd been coloring up pictures of pirates (fire-breathing lions were soooo last week) and was generally relaxing in her new setting. Lots of new friends and happy times! But as she finished up Mr. Pirate's peg-leg, she happened to notice, by chance, something out the apartment's windows...

A
small bird limping across the grass outside!

Well, leaving it certainly wouldn't do... It'll only take a second to go see and it's close by, so it'sokay!—besides, it looks like it could rain in a little bit... She has to make sure the little critter wasn't stuck out during a drizzle...

So Elicia leaves the apartment and rushes down the stairs, slip-on shoes click-clacking all the way. She can see the bird in the distance trying to flap a mangled wing, and runs toward it... which is, in hindsight, a bad idea, because it just darts into the brush. She continues for a few seconds until she's in a little clearing, where soft frenzied chirps meet her ears.

A tree! Over there~!

She climbs its jutting roots and looks into a hole to find baby birds, all chirping and fat... like their mama? Aaah, but that means mama bird was missing! Was it really the one she'd chased earlier? Well, she'll just sit and admire the babies for now while waiting for any sign of said mama birdy, whenever you feel like bumping into her.]

Then she needs pets!

[identity profile] valorandwisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
You don't, huh? Where's the nest?

[He's asking this as he swings his legs around to get comfortable on the branch. It's a lot harder for a boy than a girl.]

[identity profile] nightsofrain.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, I-I like kitties too! They're v-very cute as well!

[identity profile] broken-messiah.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

Well, stay there and don't move. I'll see if I can find it... [and looks around]
catus_carnival: (☼ i'm a airplane)

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[personal profile] catus_carnival 2010-09-25 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[and she's leaping on to the level of the branch Elicia's on in half a second, sticking to the trunk with her claws. Tao holds out an arm to invite her to hang on to.]

Come on, meow!

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[identity profile] applehair.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She quickly makes her way over, partially to make sure that Elicia doesn't fall to her doom, and also because her curiosity got the best of her. She does make sure she's in a position to catch her if she ever falls though, before peering in.] What's this...?

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's heard the term a few times before, and shakes his head with a smile]

No, not alchemy. See, there are spirits here, and if they like you enough, they'll teach you some tricks.

[As he demonstrates by pulling moisture out of the air until a tiny pool of it floats above his hand.]

[identity profile] esper-flight.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow....

[Terra pauses behind her, for a moment forgetting about the mother as she peers at the odd, colorful birds.]

They're beautiful!

[identity profile] esper-flight.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Terra giggles a little at that, too.]

I suppose you're right!

...but we should find the mother with the hurt wing. I can make her feel better.

[identity profile] nightsofrain.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
R-Really? You w-wouldn't mind me coming over to y-your place?

[Is it obvious that she's never had friends that were girls close to her apparent age?]

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[identity profile] applehair.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[How cute.] They probably are. We shouldn't get in the way though, as their mother is probably looking for food for them.

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[The idea of itty, bitty Elicia trying to learn from say, Eferin, who is known for being a hothead... Sanji would hate to have to kick a spirit's ass.]

I think you'd like Nala-chan best! That way if you run across another bird, you can help it yourself next time.

[Heh, a raised brow] Arrows, huh? Your dad okay with that? [Nevermind he's hoping she won't be stuck here for that long]

[identity profile] broken-messiah.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Where? [looks at where she's pointing then goes over quietly] Yes. I see it... be quiet now or you'll scare her away.

/gets the turtles and the fish

[identity profile] valorandwisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
[You know what, this tree's gnarly enough that he's just going to reach up and grab a branch above his head, then pull himself up to stand on it though he still hangs on with one hand. His anatomy is happier that way. And that way he can see the hole over her head.]

Oh yeah! That's pretty cool! [And with a blink, he realizes that, fat though they may be, they're all kind of small...] Huh? Have you seen the mom?

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