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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 18:01:31 GMT -5
Ande sat on a bench with nothing more than her jeans and t-shirt on. She smiled as she watched the three white Eevee that accompanied her tussled in the snow, kicking it up. The Laerion sat beside Ande's feet, her expression unreadable as she watched her younger siblings play. Ande's white wings floated lazily in the slight breeze behind her.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 18:29:29 GMT -5
Derek leaned up against a tree, in his police uniform, sipping his much needed coffee.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 18:31:30 GMT -5
Ande looked up, sensing him, then smiled and went back to looking at the sky. One of the Eevee tumbled over and bumped against Derek's shoe and squeaked.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 18:43:52 GMT -5
Derek looked down at the fuzzball. "Hello there."
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 18:45:24 GMT -5
The Eevee ran back to Ande and hid behind her legs, shivering. The other two followed suit. The Laerion eyed Derek cautiously, but Ande put her hand on the Laerion's head. "Peace, Leta."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 18:49:54 GMT -5
Derek raised an eyebrow.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 18:52:10 GMT -5
"She's protective of the younger ones. Their mother died giving birth to them. Leta was the only one to stay with their mother as she grew up. The father of the younger ones abandoned them after the mother's death," Ande explained.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 18:56:05 GMT -5
"Oh." He knew all to well how it was to be abandoned.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 18:59:21 GMT -5
Ande looked up at the sky again, her wings extending a little bit. "We were drawn to each other, Leta, her siblings and I, because we've all suffered greatly. Leta, a mute that her father thought would never get anywhere. I, a bastard halfbreed whose parents didn't want her."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:02:03 GMT -5
Derek nodded. He jumped a bit as his phone went off. He opened it and found a text telling him to pick pick up diapers and more formula after work.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:03:08 GMT -5
Ande blinked and looked at him, her blue eyes piercing. She looked away after a moment, her hand resting on Leta's head.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:08:47 GMT -5
Derek threw out his coffee cup. He removed his cap, combing his dark hair back with his fingers. A small lock of sky blue hair poked out a bit before he put his cap back on.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:12:19 GMT -5
Ande caught a bit of her snow white hair that had been floating freely in the breeze and put it behind her ear. "'Days come and go, never to return. Lives pass by as flower petals on the wind. The snow, ever falling, muffles all.' Tondri Aerasha, 186, Pocatae Maecia." Leta eyed Ande, a little wierded out. "You should know I quote Aerasha much by now, Leta."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:15:11 GMT -5
"Yet new lives bloom to replace the old." Derek said, smiling at the thought of his own family coming to be as the one with his parents fell apart.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:17:21 GMT -5
Ande smiled a bit, though bittersweet sorrow stained her blue eyes. "And those lives form new bonds to begin the cycle anew. Forever shall these bonds circle till the Cloak of Eternity decides to silence all."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:22:21 GMT -5
Derek nodded. He looked at the powdery snow to his side and with a slight movement of his finger he made it swirl with a undetectable breeze.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:23:18 GMT -5
Ande raised one of her eyebrows slightly and folded her wings against her sides, making it look like she were wearing a coat made out of giant feathers.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:26:53 GMT -5
Derek looked at the sky with his blue eyes.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:28:00 GMT -5
Ande sighed, flaring her wings out and shuddered a bit, then shook it off.
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:29:15 GMT -5
"You cold?"
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:30:00 GMT -5
"No. Just memories."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:36:50 GMT -5
Derek nodded.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:42:55 GMT -5
"One gets used to the cold of the outside while grappling with the freezing inside."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:44:49 GMT -5
"True."
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 19:45:43 GMT -5
Ande sighed and Leta pushed her head into her leg. Ande smiled a bit and looked up. "Not even the freedom of flight takes them away. The cold air just numbs the memories for a time, but they never truly freeze."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 19:50:30 GMT -5
Derek nodded.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 20:03:22 GMT -5
Ande sighed. "So alone I soar, trying to find my place. A bastard halfbreed not wanted anywhere."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 20:05:53 GMT -5
"You will find your place." Derek said. Just like I did.
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Post by Kiki on May 4, 2009 20:09:10 GMT -5
Ande shook her head, then looked at the sky. "The sea, the air, the mountains, the grounds, the caves, the plains, the desert... I've found nowhere. More than four centuries of searching..."
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Post by UmbreonGal on May 4, 2009 20:10:34 GMT -5
"400 years?"
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