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Post by superdb3 on Apr 26, 2011 14:30:46 GMT -8
Snitch frowned a little, "I don't think I hurt anything, but I'm lost, Mr. Blue Coat said to wait somewhere around here, but I started to walk around, and now I'm here." He said, remembering that Mr. Blue Coat, as he referred to one of the workers at the train yard, had left him by a road, saying he'd be back soon and told him to stay there.
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Post by Kari on Apr 26, 2011 14:38:14 GMT -8
"Someone told you to wait in in a forest?" Amaranth scrunched her eyebrows. Anytime something had been left in her forest, it stayed there. Thunder cracked overhead. She looked up, thinking how nice the moisture would be, then she thought about him. If he was a machine, wouldn't the rain break him?
"Maybe you should come with me." She spoke softly, wondering what Mari would think.
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Post by superdb3 on Apr 26, 2011 14:42:28 GMT -8
Snitch jumped when he heard the crash, "Um, okay. What was that?" He asked, pointing to the sky. He had never heard anything like that before, and he wondered what in the world it could be.
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Post by Kari on Apr 26, 2011 15:20:38 GMT -8
She cocked her head to the side, amused, "You've never heard thunder before?" The first drop fell on her nose. She giggled, grabbing his hand, and leading him off, "Mari should have some food ready, or do you not eat?" She asked, excited now. The last time she found a machine- or as Mari called it, a computer- in her woods, it turned blue when she poked it, and only yelled "BEEEEEEP!" before it turned black again. Mari said it was broken. Amaranth secretly tried to nurse it back to health, but it wouldn't eat, or even respond to her touch. After a few days, she decided to bury it.
A small hole in a tree had sufficed to be a shelter when she first found these woods, so very long ago. Now her tree had grown larger, and her hollow was a comfortable home. Mari was outside, stirring a boiling pot over a fire. "Who is that, Ama?" Her voice was gentle, with a very soft, almost nonexistant undertone that sounded vaguely metalic. "I dunno, I found him today. I think he's a machine-person, like you Mari." Mari's grey eyes turned to him. Another crack of thunder sounded and a few more droplets fell. "Maybe we should go inside now." Amaranth suggested, grabbing the pot. Mari nodded, kicking damp earth onto the flames as she ran a too-stiff-to-be-human arm through the turquoise side of her turquoise and brown hair. "Come on, " she gestured, "the rain isn't kind to those like me and you."
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Post by superdb3 on Apr 26, 2011 15:25:19 GMT -8
Snitch nodded, following her to the inside of the tree. He didn't understand why water fell from the sky, but remembered Mr. Blue Coat would take him inside on a day like today. "What's a thunder?" He asked Mari, a little more comfortable with someone who shared the same traits as him.
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Post by Kari on Apr 26, 2011 15:32:43 GMT -8
Mari smiled, "It's basically a loud noise in the sky that lets you know when the rain is coming. It can't hurt you." She swung the thick piece of bark they used for a door into place as he brushed past her. She felt a pulse of raw, electricity as he passed. "You're not human at all, are you?" Amaranth sat up from where she was laying on her bed, "You mean he's like the computer? Is he going to yell 'Beep!' and die too?"
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Post by superdb3 on Apr 26, 2011 16:12:11 GMT -8
Snitch shook his head, "No, I'm not any way human. But I don't wanna die either." He replied. He honestly didn't think he'd beep and just suddenly keel over, but he had randomly passed out once, but that was only when there was what Mr. Blue Coat called a virus inside him.
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Post by Kari on Apr 26, 2011 16:35:24 GMT -8
Mari giggled, "I don't think you will. The computer she found was broken and abandoned." Amaranth was now behind him, poking him in different places. "Hey, cut it out and eat your soup, silly girl." Mari scolded. She shooed Ama off, "By the way, do you have a name?"
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Post by superdb3 on Apr 26, 2011 16:41:46 GMT -8
Snitch nodded, "My name is Snitch." He said, smiling happily. He hadn't been asked his name in a long time. He knew it wasn't the best name to have, but he quite liked the word anyway.
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Post by Kari on Apr 26, 2011 16:48:10 GMT -8
"Snitch," Mari nodded, "And do you know where you come from?"
"I think he fell out of a tree," Ama whispered in her human ear. "Hush, child." Mari shook her head, handing Amaranth a wooden spoon.
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