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.]

[identity profile] broken-messiah.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Of course you can. You can come visit sometimes too. Some of the patients feel a little sad and lonely being at the clinic and he would be nice to have someone help cheer them up a bit.

[identity profile] esper-flight.livejournal.com 2010-10-03 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blushing a little more. She's not used to such compliments.]

Well, I'm glad you think so.

...I was going to the bakery. Do you want to come? Or...where is your father? I don't want to worry him.
Edited 2010-10-03 16:01 (UTC)

[identity profile] esper-flight.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, solemn.]

Oh, I see. Then I'm sure he'll be missing you.

[identity profile] esper-flight.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay!

[She beams.]

I'll see you later, Elicia!

[identity profile] broken-messiah.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure the patients would love to receive them. Hopefully, your father will let you come.

[identity profile] valorandwisdom.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
By showing them, of course! They show them how to flap their wings and hover and fly longer and longer every day.

[His own wings quiver just a little on his shoulder blades at the thought.]

[identity profile] valorandwisdom.livejournal.com 2010-10-06 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it is! But we can't do it, you know. We're not birds, so our wings don't work that way.

[He's trying to make a "serious" face at that to impress upon the kid the absolute truth of the statement - and comes out looking pretty silly.]

[identity profile] valorandwisdom.livejournal.com 2010-10-07 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhhh...

[Oh great, how to explain the harsh realities of this world to a five year old.]

Umm, the people that used to live here, they all had wings. And the people who live outside this town, where we can't get to, they've all got them too, but theirs are different. So I guess the guys who bring us all here think we should, too.

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like... eeeeh.... [Give him a second, he's not used to this part of the whole Big Bro package]

Getting used to something you didn't have to before. Like you're adapting to being in Luceti, aren't you?

And that mama bird adapted to having a broken wing.

/sobs. FEEL FREE TO TELL ME TO STOP REPLYING SO LATE

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-10-18 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
... [He nearly stops walking, at that. Whatever he's feeling... he keeps to himself. There are some issues the mind of a child doesn't need to be burdened with]

Until she gets here, you can be a big girl and wait for her with us, right?

8Db

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-10-18 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
That so? [Giving her hand a squeeze, and chuckling as she goes off on what's probably one of her favorite subjects]

Then I can't wait for her to get here either! And I bet she'd be really proud of that pie you made the other day.

[identity profile] oda-hates-me.livejournal.com 2010-10-18 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a really good mama to me.

[He pauses - well, uh, ABC's across worlds is a messy business. >_>]

My ABC's? It's been a while since I've thought about 'em. [cough] But of course, I wouldn't forget something like that!

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