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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 2, 2009 21:49:21 GMT -5
Hit with belts? Get scars on arms?
Was that really what her father was like? She'd heard of people like that, who hurt others without reason, but she'd never actually met one. Maybe her father hadn't been so bad - at least he'd never hit her. She'd never understand people like that. Who would want to do something so horrible to someone else, especially a little girl like her?
Nieke forced another smile, trying not to show the sudden rush of sadness and anger she felt. "Yep! I'll protect you from him, I promise!" She assured.
What was she saying? Sometimes when she got wound up she lost control of her mouth and actions. She'd just promised to protect the girl - did that mean that she would have to stay with her now? She wanted to help her, but...
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Post by Ruko on Nov 2, 2009 22:00:01 GMT -5
Protect her? That thought made Anya smile, putting a stopper to any remaining tears. No one could protect her... It was a nice thing to say, though. She liked her new friend, and her funny, impossible ideas! She let go of Nieke, and then wiped off her face, getting rid of the tearstreaks, though her face was still puffy. "You don'ts have tos! Don'ts worry!"
Anya smiled, grinning up happily at the older girl. Really, it was just nice for someone to say it. She couldn't, and didn't have to protect her. "I cans protects myselfs! Don'ts worrys, okays! Don'ts needs any protections! Besides, Daddys only hurts me REALLY bad onces, so I'm okay. I justs got scars, so notin really bad."
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 2, 2009 22:20:42 GMT -5
Scars were bad enough...but she had to admit being slightly relieved that Anya hadn't taken her promise too literally. She was known as a strong fighter amongst her friends and neighbors, but, even if she didn't really like to admit it, that was all just a game...going up against someone like her father...would be different... Still, she would do what she could if she had to. Even if Anya didn't want her to worry, she knew that someone her age would be defenseless. But hopefully she would never have to deal with her father again - it sounded like she really had made the best decision in running away.
"I see, but I'll back you up if I need to!" She decided, forcing on another carefree smile.
"Oh!" She suddenly added, as a thought came to her. "Are you hungry or anything? I have some food and stuff with me, since I was taking it back home."
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Post by Ruko on Nov 3, 2009 21:36:01 GMT -5
"Well..." Anya smiled mischeiviously. "I was eatin' my lunch, whens I saws you come downs the road. I was gonnas play a trick on yous, buts then I fell outs of the tree." Her smile changed to sheepish. "I probabs shouldn't have tried to scare yas."
Her stomach growled slightly. "So thens, I mights wants to finish, otherwise..." Her stomach growled once more, and Anya sighed. "Before the parts of lunch I ates, that was the firsts I ates all day..."
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 5, 2009 3:45:44 GMT -5
Nieke gave a slight smile as Anya's stomach growled. "I'm hungry too!" She remarked. "I was going to stop a little ways further down the road, but maybe I'll have my lunch now too, then."
She reached back down for her bags, digging around in them before pulling out a package of ham, as well as a bag of oranges and bananas that she'd bought from the market. Hopefully her mom wouldn't mind. She was actually supposed to wait until she got home to eat instead of cutting into the supplies she'd bought, but she'd forgotten to pack her own lunch that morning... Oh well. She'd gotten hungry from the trip and had already decided that she was going to stop and have just a bit soon.
She plopped down on the grass and set the fruit down beside her. Lacking a knife, she took the ham and ran a finger over the packaging, piercing it with a cat-like claw that appeared on one finger just long enough to break the seal before quickly disappearing again. She set it down beside the fruit, taking a slice of the meat herself. "You can have some, if you want." She offered, before eagerly biting into her piece.
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Post by Ruko on Nov 5, 2009 15:52:32 GMT -5
Plopping down next to Nieke, Anya opened up her pack, pulling out some dried meat, and turning back to the older girl just in time to see her open the packaging of the ham. "How'd you do thats? I always have troubles with thoses." asked Anya, surprised. She was never able to open those when Daddy used to get them, and she had to use a knife.
Munching on her own dried meat, Anya decided not to have any of the decently fresh meat. She wasn't a big eater of meat to begin with, but she made herself eat the dried meat, because it would make her grow bigger, and strong. Milk and cheese would do that, too, but Milk was hard to carry around. She had some cheese, though, but she'd get that out after she finished eating her meat. What she wanted right now was some porridge. That was always good and yummy.
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 5, 2009 18:53:55 GMT -5
"Oh." Nieke started, quickly licking the juice from the ham off her fingers before turning back to the younger girl at her question. "I'm a thing called a +anima." She answered casually. Most of the other people she knew already knew that, so she wasn't used to the question anymore, but of course Anya wouldn't know. "I guess you could say I'm part wildcat!" She explained proudly, making her claws appear on her fingers just briefly to show them off before making them disappear again. "It definitely comes in handy sometimes." She grinned, before grabbing another slice of meat.
She wondered what Anya would think. Some people thought she was a bit strange, but she didn't mind, she figured that a lot of them were just envious anyway. It'd been a while since she'd shown anyone new, though. Distractedly, she finished her second piece of ham, reaching over and peeling one of the bananas next. She had to admit that fruit wasn't her favorite thing to eat, but her mom said that it was good for her - she needed to eat something besides meat, and her mom wouldn't like it if she finished all the ham now, anyway.
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Post by Ruko on Nov 6, 2009 17:40:31 GMT -5
Anya's eyes widened. "Woah!" She sat up straight. "That's so cool! Yous... I mean, yours claws... Woah!" There was nothing else she could say. It was so cool! "You're part Kitty-Cat!" That was the best way she could put it. Strange... but yet so cool at the exact same time! Imagine, being part Kitty-Cat! It would be so cool to have claws like that!
"How'd you... How'd you get like that? Were you born part Kitty-Cat?" Anya asked, eyes wide with wonder as she looked up at the older girl. She wanted to be part Kitty-Cat! That'd be so much fun! "Can I get part Kitty-Cat?" she asked, adding another question to the mix.
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 6, 2009 18:22:54 GMT -5
"Hmm..." Nieke thought for a moment - it'd been so long ago that she'd become a +anima that she couldn't recall the story real well. At the same time, though, it probably was the most vivid early memory she had. "I wasn't born like this...I became a +anima when I was really little though. It was when me and some of my friends were attacked by a mother wildcat after we accidentally disturbed her kittens."
"And umm..." She continued, in regards to Anya's second question. "I suppose it's possible - but I don't think it could happen on purpose! I've heard that it can happen anytime you're in danger and there's an animal around - you can become part of that species." She explained as best as she could, hoping that it made sense.
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Post by Ruko on Nov 8, 2009 8:54:14 GMT -5
Oh, so you had to be in danger for it to work? That was no fun. "So you're like Mr. Magical Otter..." Anya realized, settling back down in her seat. "I'd likes to be a +Anima, buts I don't wanna bes in danger. Agains." The little girl sighed. "Why does everythings thats fun hafta bes dangerous?"
Munching on her dried meat, and then pulling an apple out of her back, Anya chewed thoughtfully (XD). "So, if you were swimming, and you were gonna drown, you'd become part fishies?" the young girl asked, trying to figure out this whole +Anima deal. It wasn't completely making sense to her, so she had to ask questions.
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 9, 2009 1:36:27 GMT -5
Mr. Magical Otter... Nieke pondered over the name as she took another bite of her banana, finishing it. What was that? Maybe it was something from some kid's story. She hadn't heard of it before, but decided not to ask. A slight smile came to her lips, though. Everything fun was dangerous, huh? Maybe. From her experience playing it safe was indeed always a bit boring.
"Yeah, that's right!" She answered as Anya continued talking, using the example of a fish +anima. "Like, if you fell and there were birds nearby, you might become a bird +anima, or if you were being chased, you might become some fast animal like a rabbit if there was one close to you." She added, trying to clarify it further. It was a bit hard to grasp at first. When she was younger, she'd had a hard time understanding the concept at first when people had tried to explain it to her too, even though she'd just become one.
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Post by Ruko on Nov 10, 2009 21:55:27 GMT -5
"Hmm..." Anya thought a little bit, processing Nieke's examples. So if she was in trouble, she'd get powers from an animal to help her. What if there were no animals nearby? Or if none of their powers would be useful? Like if she was falling off a cliff and the only animal nearby was a dog? What would happen then?
Keeping a control on her tongue, and deciding to begin vaguely at first, Anya began to talk once more. "What if there were no animals nearby? What would happen then? Or if their powers wouldn't help yous at all? Like ifs you was falling, and the only animal nearby was a puppy? What then?" Realizing the control on her tongue was slipping, Anya stopped talking.
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 11, 2009 19:34:38 GMT -5
"Well..." Nieke thought for a moment. "I guess then you'd be out of luck. I don't think you'd get a +anima from something that wouldn't help, but you wouldn't get a helpful one if a helpful animal wasn't nearby, either. I guess you just kind of have to hope that there would be a useful one nearby if you got in trouble..."
Having finished the banana, she reached again for another piece ham. Hopefully her mom wouldn't mind her taking just one more piece.
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Post by Ruko on Nov 13, 2009 22:50:22 GMT -5
"Oh..." Anya processed that information, thinking, before a thought occured to her. "Then, because of the war, why aren't all the growns men walkings around half animals?" she asked, thinking it a good question. After all, if you were going to die in the war, wouldn't you get some sort of power? After all, there were horses in wars, and they were certainly useful enough.
She put away her stuff for lunch. She was done eating.
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Post by TearsOfNightfall on Nov 14, 2009 0:02:19 GMT -5
Nieke briefly pondered the thought. "If I remember correctly, I think someone told me once that you can't become a +anima once you reach a certain age...once you start becoming an adult I think it's too late." She hadn't remembered that until Anya had asked the question, but now she seemed to remember hearing something like that. It had to be - otherwise there probably would be many more +anima than there were. "Sometimes a +anima can go back to being a regular person when they get older, too. Sometimes it disappears, sometimes it doesn't, though - apparently it depends on if they still need it or not. I'm glad I still have mine, though." She smiled, feeling like she needed to add in the fact that someone who becomes a +anima might not be one forever. She hoped that she wouldn't ever lose hers - she couldn't imagine what it would be like without it now. She supposed in that sense, she did need it.
Seeing that Anya was finished, Nieke decided to put away her food too. She probably could've eaten a bit more, but it would probably be best if she stopped eating the food she was supposed to bring home, anyway.
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