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Post by yamamoto on Oct 19, 2008 18:41:03 GMT -5
Andol was just sitting on the egde of the Weyr bowl aginst a wall and clutching Jenit to his chest. His eyes were rolling around looking in every direction. The look on his face was one that was emotionless really. Until his eyes came to rest on Leaf who looked up at him and chirped to him. He did not really react. Though Leaf never really epected her pet to do so. She sometimes just did it to make sure he was still there. Becuase when she did he would look at her for a sec and then his eyes would wonder in anthoer direction.
Andol lost himself in his mind for a moment and then looked at Leaf and said " The grass is green too." He then looked down at Jenit and said " It is quite pretty. Do you think it is pretty Jenit." Andol nodded and said " That is what you said last time that asked you if somthing was pretty."
Andol then though for a moment as his eyes looked up and he then looked back down at his stuffed dog and asked in a bored sounding voice " Why would they find me differnt?" He then thought for a second and siad " That is a silly reason. I think I am normal." Anyone listining in would only really hear Andol talking to himself. Becuase of the fact that was what he was actually doing. Leaf looked up and around as though she hoped someone would come in and she could get her pet to talk to somone that was alive and not the stuffed creature held in his arms. Topaz then landed beside Leaf and chriped at his pet.
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Post by franny on Oct 19, 2008 19:42:03 GMT -5
Helka stared at the poor boy who was talking to himself. IT was quite absurd feeling to feel sorry for someone that talked to themselves, but maybe it would be the right thing to do, to go talk to the boy. She smiled and said, "How do you do? I am Helka, and who are you?"
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 19, 2008 19:51:03 GMT -5
Andol immdanilty stopped talking to his stuffed dog and looking at the girl. His bored facal experrsion did not change. Then his eyes began to wonder all over the place looking up then looking to side and then back at her and he looked at Topaz and " Bronze is such a pretty color. It is my favorite." Though he said this in a voice that sounded distant and as though he was thinking outloud more than talking. He then looked back at her and said " Andol that is my name." Though he siad this while looking at Topaz. He was talking to Helka and he wasn't talking to her. It was more like he was answering her question though was directing those answers toward his firelizards without paying her any mind. He then looked back at Helka as though he just noticed her with his blank stare.
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Post by franny on Oct 19, 2008 20:06:00 GMT -5
Helka stared at the strange boy and said, "Who are the flits?" She could at least try and talk to this strange boy who obviously had something a touch wrong in his mind and she wondered why he was even a candidate. Weren't candidates supposed to be sound of mind? Well, maybe he was and he was just a little off... or reclusive. She then said, "So are you a candidate here, and what to you hope to impress?"
Mentally she corrected herself on calling him a boy in her mind, he was obviously a young man who was just a touch odd.
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 19, 2008 20:14:06 GMT -5
Andol then for no reason pulled a pieace of paper out and sat there for a few minutes drawing on it and he then reached over to Leaf who took it and flew up and landed on Helka's shoulder and was trying to give it to her. On it was a picture of the two flits and it was clearly marked which flit was which and there names were listed. He then stared back at her and thought for sec and siad in that disconnected voice again " Blond. That is a pretty color of hair." He was though talking about Helka's hair and then he siad looking at his stuff dog Jenit and said to it " Yes Jenit I am a candidate. I think that was what she asked me that I was. So the answer is most cernaitly yes. Though I think blue is a pretty dragon color don't you agree."
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Post by franny on Oct 19, 2008 21:16:52 GMT -5
Helka was weirded out by this young man but she was determined to have a conversation. Smiling she said, "Leaf and Topaz are pretty names for flits." She was determined to reply to everything he said so she replied to his comment on her hair with a simple muttered, "Thankyou." Her evil long hair was not her favorite subject. Her mom was so obsessed with her "rare" hair. Why, she would rather have red hair than blond, but she would not ever say that because she would be called an ungrateful girl probably. She then pretended that the stuffed dog was a normal dog and said, "Is that your dog? What happened to it? It is nice to meet another candidate." Maybe the dog had once been real. Maybe theis would giver a look into why this man seemed kind of strange. She did feel pity for him.
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 19, 2008 21:32:26 GMT -5
Andol looked at Topaz who had settled himself on his pets shoulder and siad to it " You hear she said you have a pretty name." He then looked back at her. Though at the mention of his what happened to his dog Helka had treaded on Andol's illusion that this was Jeint and the lie he had created and was being question about what had happen to him. Andol began to breath quickly and then all of a sudden as though he was going to be hit he covered his head and ducked alittle. Topaz and Leaf immdeatly came to his side. They knew what to do when he did this. Topaz rubbed his head aginst Andols cheek as both flit did there best to reasurre him that the person who had attacked him was not there. Andol then looked back up and clcuthed Jenit to his chest and said absent mindedly as though nothing jsut happened " No I don't remember anything happening to you Jenit. Do you remember anything happening to you?" Andol then looked at his stuffed dog and said curiously " Of course I am not thinking about what happened to you to much." He then sighed and siad " I guess you are right is better to not think about anything." The words Andol said revealed quite alot about him and why he acted strange if one knew how to read bettewen the lines. The look on Andols face went back to the one that seemed like a blank stare of someone think about nothing in paraticular.
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Post by franny on Oct 19, 2008 22:25:00 GMT -5
"Why do you think it so much better to think about nothing? Jenit seems like such a good dog. Doesn't thinking about nothing mean you can't think about her, or your two beautiful flits?" Helka said, trying to get some more out of Andol. She had seen his reaction to her asking about the dog, and she didn't want to totally turn him into a freak out state, which she had been surprised to see. So, she turned to nonsense chatter. Maybe nonsense chatter would get more out than anything serious.
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 19, 2008 22:50:54 GMT -5
Andol then said absent mindedly " He. Jenit is a he." For once he was answering in a direct and not in his usal indirect manner. He then about said somthing and he sudden looked down at Jenit and siad " What do you mean don't answer her question." He waited a few sec and said " Why won't I be happy if I do." He waited a few more and then said to Helka in his disconnected voice while is eyes seemed to wander all around " I think some. About the things you spoke of. Though Jenit says it is best not to think about it to much." Though the it he was talking about was what had happened to Jenit. Though one would have to listin carefully to pick that up.
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Post by franny on Oct 19, 2008 23:13:43 GMT -5
Whmm, roundabout, and Jenit had been a he, a male dog. Helka was starting to realize that he thought the dog could talk to him. Okay, so this man was really pretty messed. Something had happened that caused him to "hear" things. Well, she could play along. "Not many people can talk to dogs. It must be an amazing skill to be able to talk to your Jenit. Is it? He looks like a nice dog."
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 20, 2008 0:01:05 GMT -5
Andol looked at her curiously. Though his mind was going nuts. She was traping him in a corner with these statements. He knew that the stuffed aniamil was not real. Though for his lie he had conivced himself of it. It aslo ment that he could not think to much nor could he admit to his doll of Jenit not being real. Though here questions would froce him to do that. Topaz could sense his pets great distress and he stood bettewen him and Helka and began to hiss at her fiercely though Leaf stood in front him and sqwaked at Topaz. Andol then reached out and put his hand on Topaz and the bronze began to calm though you could tell that her statment had greatly unsettled Andol and then he said in a very disconnected voice to both Topaz and Leaf " Please don't tell him. It is my fault he died. It is all my fault. I was not paying attention. He got away and he was killed. Don't tell my dad please." Andol was talking as though Helka was not there. The two firelizards chirped there reaplys to him as the reason he acted so strange had come to light. Then Topaz moved out the way and Leaf chriped at Helka. She was the first person to make Andol admit to what he had done and problery now had the best chance of anyone to get the rest of the story. The firelizards wanted her to talk to him. Andol then began to cry and he clucth the stuffed animal to his chest and siad " I am sorry Jenit. I am so sorry."
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Post by franny on Oct 20, 2008 21:57:25 GMT -5
"Its ok Andol. Did you ever think that maybe is wasn't your fault? Things like that happen all the time. I am very sorry about Jenit. Everybody is careless at times. My family doesn't like what I am because I am not 'normal' to them. I like running and so I am automatically crazy to them." Helka hoped that this would make Andol feel better. He obviously believed it would be the worst thing in the world to have his parent's find out. Her statement about herself made her realize that she was still in the boys clothes that she liked to run in. Oh how her mother would not approve of her being around another person in boy's clothes. She then added thinking of her own family, "and you are away from your family now, they are what is part of the past and unchangeable."
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 21, 2008 12:23:35 GMT -5
Topaz moved quickly to his pets side and for once Andol dropped the stuffed dog and picked up the bronze firelizard and cuddled him close. Topaz did not sqwauk or anything and just made a soft croon as he rubbed his head aginst Andols chest. The bronzes motherly side that rarely came out only when Andol needed him was showing at this moment. Andol then looked up at Helka and the dissconted sound in his voice was gone and he siad " That is not it. I understand I was careless. The point is that I have lied about what happened this whole time. I told my parents that someone had attacked me and that was how he got away. That is what I am worried about my dad finding out." Leaf was sitting in Andol lap. She had picked up Jenit and placed it in Andols lap next to her and she curled up protectivelty around the stuffed dog. Becuase it was her pets most prized possaion.
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Post by franny on Oct 21, 2008 20:13:04 GMT -5
"Maybe your parent's will just be happy that you aren't lieing anymore. And anyway, your parent's aren't here, you are free they have no control on you anymore," Helka siad quietly but fiercely. She was glad to be out of parental control. She had no more lectures about being a proper lady now. Well, at least Andol was starting to leave his disconnectedness and come out of the shell some. She was glad it had happened quickly because she wouldn't have been able to stand him long if it hadn't. "So what are your favorite hobbies?" She asked, turning the subject in hopes of not making Andol shell up.
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 21, 2008 20:42:20 GMT -5
Andol nodded his head as he looked at her and cuddled the large bronze to his chest. It was obvious by Topaz's reaction to this that he was used to it becuase Andol would usally hold on to the bronze rather than the stuffed dog when he was really sad becuase Topaz was alive and Jenit wasn't. He then looked at her and figured that he need to tell her somthing. " If you ever see me acting the way I was before around you when others are around don't say anything. People make me very shy and it is hard to talk to them directly so I do it indirectly. It is much esiar for me. Though if we are alone like that I will talk to you normally like I am doing now. Ok." He hoped she would understand and not try and force him out of his shell faster than he was ready to be. He then answered her question and siad " I like to draw. I like to read and I like to run and do other various of pyshical activite though I mostly run."
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