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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:21 pm
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((OOC: Going to bed so I don't fall asleep in my lab tomorrow. Goodnight!))
Katalina, if that was possible, looked more concerned. "Is he a good person, Joshua?" she asked quietly. Normally, she'd think that any friend of Joshua's was a good person, but there were more pressing issues to consider right now.
Her eyes kept tracking back to Tianara while she talked, and if he were paying the slightest bit of attention, Joshua would easily be able to figure out why she was asking.
She hadn't heard about Adrian from him, after all.
And she was asking if she should be worried.
"Tell me quickly," she said, still keeping her voice low, "because I think Tianara will be done one way or the other any minute now."
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:32 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:10 pm
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Katalina growled softly under her breath. "I was afraid of that," she muttered. Her tail flicked unhappily, and she looked at Tianara as she murmured, "I'm afraid our girl's going to have a very rude awakening. Take care of her, Joshua. She's young to have her heart bruised so soon, and we can't afford her obsessing over a first crush right now anyway."
She couldn't interfere. She wouldn't interfere. The lives of their humans on land were out of the merfolk's control. Tianara had to make her own mistakes, both in life and in love; Katalina couldn't shelter her from everything. No matter how much she wanted to.
Tianara chose that rather inopportune moment to rejoin them, her dark blue eyes still overbright from tears though she wasn't crying anymore. She looked a little pissed, a lot upset, and like she was going to bite the head off the first person who talked to her.
Katalina, deciding that now was the time to retreat while she still had a chance, looked at Joshua. "Keep me updated," she said briefly, and vanished into the shallows.
Tianara stared after her for a long moment, then took a deep breath. "Looks like it's just us now," she said, her voice a little raspy and rough.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:35 pm
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Katalina spoke one more time, in Joshua's head. "I know. You always do try so hard. If she won't listen, let her make her own mistakes. Just don't let him--" a brief flash of a violent torrent of feelings, of something too horrible to name, then back to her voice. "...hurt her."
She was out of range shortly after.
Tianara looked at him with anger flaring hot in her face, then looked away, back out to the water. "Oh yes, I'm staying," she said flatly. "All it took was making my mother cry. Again."
Now didn't seem like a good time to mention that her mother clearly wasn't the only one who'd cried.
She sighed, and her shoulders fell forward. "Sorry," she murmured. "Sorry. I shouldn't take it out on you. It's not your fault. I'm just a terrible daughter."
Running the back of her hand over her eyes quickly, she looked over at him again. "So what were you and Sorry talking about...?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:34 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:26 pm
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Tianara gave him a weary smile. "You're right," she replied. "You probably would have." There was no sting meant in the words, and she'd have been surprised if someone had told her that they might hurt.
She looked at the water for a moment, a little colour coming into her face when he mentioned Adrian's name. "Hmm," she said noncommittally. "Seemed a little intense."
After a few moments of that hanging on the air, she elaborated, "The storm. Didn't give much warning for one that left that much damage."
She let her fanciful side take the reins for a moment as she wondered if the sea-spirits were punishing humanity for their treatment of the merfolk. But only for a moment, and then she was back to business.
"We should go up the cliff again," she said briskly, trying not to show that she was hating herself for saying it. "Check to see what the rock gnomes did and how many we can fit in the space they've given us."
She put her hands in her pockets and cursed in her own bubbly tongue when the movement pushed them down a good few inches. "Also, you said something about a...a belt?...earlier? Do you have one of those?"
It grated on her to have to ask him for everything, but she had nothing of her own yet. And she couldn't risk having one of the merfolk or one of the ocean children take her into town. So for now, she had to depend on him.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:05 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:35 pm
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Tianara was looking back out at the water, and wouldn't have noticed even if Joshua wasn't deliberately trying to hide it. She glanced back at him and smiled. "Yeah, that would be good," she said, tugging ineffectually on the jeans again.
What he came out with was not the clip or magic tie of her imagination, but rather a simple strip of cloth with metal at either end. Curiously, she took it once he'd finished explaining.
She tucked it through the loops, awkwardly, and nearly hurt herself trying to turn enough to see the loops at the back. But once she had it hooked up, she looked rather pleased with herself. "Is this right?" she asked, checking the buckle again surreptitiously. Now that the belt was on, she looked a little more comfortable in her skin.
"Okay," she decided at last. "If it'll stay, then we should go to the cliffs now." She looked at him out of the corner of her eye as though hoping he would disagree, and tell her that there was really no need to go.
Even though she knew there was.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:54 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:35 pm
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