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Elicia Hughes • Age 7 ([personal profile] asobouyo) wrote2011-06-23 01:53 am

25th Teddy Bear [Voice/Action][TWO DAYS]

[[Nighttime; June 23rd]]

[Elicia had had a tough week.

Shuffle, shuffle—the sound of turning blankets and small feet moving back and forth through them. She's been rolling in her sleep for a few minutes now, flipping her hidden journal into a little book tepee, while it records the buzzing air and soft incoherent murmurings of a child dreaming. They're not happy dreams, after a while, and it takes but a moment before she's wide awake and horrified and crawling under her blankets with her mouth in a shaky near-crying line. The journal. That's right.

She reaches over and opens it up all the way, unable to see anything in the dark. Her voice is watery and lined with a sort of innocent, hurt desperation when she speaks.]


[Voice]

Please tell me a story. I wanna hear stories, if anyone... wants to talk... I like them a lot. I—I promise I'll go back to sleep, but I just wanna hear one...

[Pretty, pretty please...

But despite stories, sometime in the night, she rises up from her bed and patter-pitters quickly into her parents' room. Scary, they're too scary—and they could be real. Because she's seen scary real things like it before. And the last thing she wanted was a blue-eyed woman slowly creaking out of her closet, like she kept imagining, over and over and over again...]


[[Daytime; June 24th]]


[It was a cold snap, today. Elicia wore her poofy pink jacket for the occasion. Truth be told, she's had a very tiring night of trying to sleep, and she'd failed at it fairly well. There were a mesh-up of things. Scary things. She didn't want to draw any of them, so she decided on focusing her attention to playing. By the end of her short-lived playtime outside, she's laying on her arm on the front steps of her house, the fake pink sword Law gave her still clamped in her hand.

A good nap. There was nothing scary... Just good. That was important. It's a good thing children bounce back well enough, even if only for a while, because she's got a content air about her later on in the day. Anyone who wants to visit, now's a great time to; she'll be drawing funny circles all over the ground outside with a stick. Clapping her hands and smacking them. And nothing happens. :|

But she sure as hell is pretending something's happening.]




Bam!! Now you can't stand against my dirt alchemy!! [throws dirt up with her hands at her big teddy bear >:^(

HA, screw you, teddy, you've got dirt on your head!]

You'd better give up soon, or else I'll have to use my water attack next!!

[AND THEN YOU'LL BE MUDDY!!!]

((ooc: Just make it clear which day you're replying to and all that. I have faith in you. |Db))

[identity profile] shoutsgeronimo.livejournal.com 2011-07-14 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[he settles back and waits for her to do the same before beginning.]

Once upon a time, far in the future, there lived a little girl in a big house with too many rooms. Every night, she would stop and ask out loud for someone to come to help her, for a monster had come and taken away her parents, and now lived in a room that the little girl couldn't see.

Now here there should have been a hero, who would come and save her from the monster and take her away from the house with too many rooms. But sometimes the hero of the story is someone you don't expect. The should-have-been hero was wizard, and wizards are often late. This wizard was late by many years, and the little Girl Who Waited for him grew up, with only a little boy to talk to. The little boy couldn't stop the monster, but made the little Girl Who Waited laugh and played games with her so she wouldn't be afraid. The two friends did this for many years, until one day the wizard finally came. He shut the monster away and took the little Girl Who Waited away from the house with too many rooms in his magic ship. Though they traveled to faraway stars and had lots of adventures, the little Girl Who Waited missed the boy who had been her friend for so many years. The wizard, being rather understanding and possessing excellent fashion sense, went back for the boy so that they could all have adventures together.

One day, after a long adventure with the stars, something terrible happened. The monster who had lived in a room the Girl Who Waited couldn't see came back, and this time he took the boy and forced the girl to forget he had existed. But he did not make the wizard forget, so that the wizard would always remember and know that the boy was gone because of him. If the wizard had taken care of the monster properly the first time, he knew, none of it would have ever happened.

Sometimes the Girl Who Waited would cry and never know why. The wizard, ashamed and sad, would never tell her. He would try to take her to beautiful places with exciting adventures, to make her forget her sadness, but it always came back...

...Until one day, they met the boy again.

[His voice is a good voice for storytelling, and he is careful to take the right tone in the right places. For the moment, he holds his dramatic pause, smiling at the camera and watching for Elicia's reaction, making sure she's still settled down under the covers]