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Leo
Five thirty. Silvia stood in the kitchen doorway with most of her hair still in a loose braid and a comb in her hand. The wild curtain of curls nearly hid her puffy, red rimmed eyes.
“Good morning, Sis.” Leo whispered and set down the spatula. “Didn’t get much sleep?”
She shrugged and shuffled over to fill the tea kettle. Leo turned back to his frying pan.
Six o’clock. The pan of sausages was set to keep warm in the apartment’s tiny oven. Leo left the rest of breakfast up to Silvia, who now had her hair pulled back into two braids. Quincy needed to be got up, which meant going back through the living room to the small bedroom the two brothers shared.
“Rory?”
The boy didn’t stir under the comforter. Leo flicked on the lights and opened the window shade on his way by. He left the bedroom door cracked open behind him.
Six thirty. Quincy was babbling about some dream he’d had while Leo buckled his shoes on. The boy’s blond hair was already rumpled after a good combing, framing sleep flushed cheeks. He’s need a hair cut soon.
Leo set the boy down and reached for his hand. “Now, let’s go wake up Rory.”
Quincy giggled and took off for the door with a cry of “Roror!” Leo darted after him, barely catching him in time to keep the wriggling mass of five year old from planting himself in the middle of the couch.
“Monkey, no!”
The little boy’s giggles turned into full fledged laughter. Leo scooped him up and settled into the opposite chair, tickling as the boy tried to climb onto his shoulders.
He chuckled. Whatever good that combing had done was lost on the blonde fluff.
First Grand Historian of Arreth and the Lesser Realms (aka Kitty)
Fork the GorkRory
A sound stabbed into the peaceful blackness, dragging Rory back to the world. A the next moment he had spun to his feet, tripping slightly over whatever was tangled about him. He threw out a hand to steady himself and almost fell. “Yes sir, here sir,” He said hurriedly, before grouping for his gun.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
Rax and Ben
“Nice to meet you Syph.” Rax saw the look on the small persons face, it was one of discomfort. “Would you like to go on my shoulder so that you’re more out of the crowd?”
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#AnduthForever (Lord Willing)Leo
“Whoa, kid, don’t knock yourself out.” Leo got to his feet, setting Quincy down in the chair behind him and reaching to steady the comforter entangled boy. He caught Rory’s flailing hand. Dazed green eyes turned to look at him. Confused.
“Rory, sit back down.” He offered gave a gentle smile. “I don’t think you’re fully awake yet.
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Fork the GorkSypher
He looked up at this Rax person less than two feet taller than him and frowned. “I’m a little old to be riding shoulders, but…” a smile darted across his face. “If you wouldn’t mind my following you, I could use a wave breaker just about now. You know, follow in your wake. I’d be much obliged.”
He stuffed his hands into his sash with a hopeful shrug. This whole place was getting too crowded.
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Fork the GorkRax and Ben
Rax found Syph’s terminology quite amusing, he smiled. “Ready? Three, two, one.” Rax hoisted Syph onto his shoulder with ease. “How does it feel up there?” Rax smiled up at the blue man/person/thing that Rax didn’t know.
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#AnduthForever (Lord Willing)Oh gracious. I’m trying to visualize how this would work/look like. XD
BTW, Sypher looks and acts pretty much like a 14 year old (he’s marginally older as his people have a slightly longer life span than most people) just a 4 1/2 foot 14 year old. I don’t remember if I said his age…XD
Sypher
The world spun in a cacophony of color and noise. He went ridged from his core to his toes with a two toned screech.
The air around him surged onto a fountain. He felt himself flip with a fishlike grace to land, crouched and upright, some five feet in the air. On the youth’s shoulders. He gasped for breath. Shoved the wall of water to scatter and disapate.
“Sir friend, I – ah -” He coughed and eyed the ground below. “Thank you for the fine offer of your shoulders. But, although they are certainly broader than my own, I don’t believe they were made to serve the both of us.”
He coiled to vault back to the puddled pavement, but caught the looks from several thoroughly drenched students and straightened. He rolled his eyes to the cloud strewn sky and sighed.
“Then again, the present circumstances do offer certain advantages. Shall we proceed into the building?”
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Fork the GorkRory
Rory blinked slowly and looked around him. Where was he? what had happened? For a moment a shock of terror tore through him. Had they caught him:? was this…. His eyes found Leo’s and slowly the events of last night slid back into place. His shoulders relaxed and he looked down. “Sorry.”He glanced at Leo from the corner of his eye. “Uh…. so what am I supposed to do. As… as your apprentice…” he bit his lip, wondering if he had spoken too soon.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
Rax and Ben
Rax laughed, “Don’t worry about my shoulders. I have lifted much heavier things than you. Now, hold onto my head and I will hold onto your legs.” Rax did so, wrapping his arms around Syph’s legs. Rax looked at Syph and then at Ben, “Ready you two?”
“Ready when you are master Rax.”
I have sagely sageness everyone!
#AnduthForever (Lord Willing)Leo
“Well…” Leo dragged out the word into a verbal smile. “First things first, you’ll need to get cleaned up for the day. I have some extra clothes you can have, and most of those bandages need changed too. Then breakfast. If you need help with anything, please let me know. I’ve been knocked about a few times before. Leaves you a bit stiff and all that.”
Leo was almost to his bedroom door before he turned around. “I’m afraid I don’t have a pair of crutches. Never needed then on the ship. Please try not to put too much weight on that knee.”
And he vanished into the bedroom to return a minute later with a set of clothes.
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Fork the GorkSypher
“Master Rax?” Syph propped one elbow atop the youth’s head and twisted around to squint behind him. But this felt almost too secure a position. Too controlled. He hummed to himself, resting his crossed arms on his makeshift table.
Still, there were advantages to being this high. He didn’t have to crane his neck to study the arches and fonts surrounding the door. A strange word in even stranger script curved along the arch. Destina…or something like that. He stared, almost forgetting to duck as the entered the building.
Inside the crowd seemed considerably less as students filtered out of the main, high domed room into branching hallways. Some very loud adult voice shuddered over a speaker, reading off some kind of behavior code with half the heart of a dead trout. She sounded exhausted.
Syph frowned and blinked up at the vaulted ceiling. Forget people. The stonework was stunning.
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Rax and Ben
”Yes that is what he calls me.” Rax began to walk inside. “I saved him in the arena where I’m from. He’s called me ‘Master’ Rax ever since.”
Ben stopped and facepalmed. “I am so sorry! I forget you don’t like being called Master. Please forgive me Master Rax.”
Rax chuckled, still walking to keep up with the crowd. “It’s alright Ben, don’t worry about it.” He looked up at Syph who was studying the architecture, “You enjoying yourself up there?”
I have sagely sageness everyone!
#AnduthForever (Lord Willing)Sypher
“Oh, precisely.” Syph responded to the question without hearing. Arenas. Masters. Toadstools. He blinked, refocusing on the ceiling. Then slipped up to stand on Rax’s shoulders. He reached out to touch one arch. Such a strange choice of patterns.
“You’d think a pixie’d built this place with as many leaves everywhere.” There were rather a people of one idea. He frowned with hands on hips and shook his head. “Too many leaves if you ask me, but it does create a pleasant outdoorsy feel.”
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Fork the GorkRax and Ben
Rax himself began to observe the building. He agreed that it was a beautiful building. He had stopped walking so that Syph could stay balanced. Ben looked around as well. All three were standing around in awe of the beauty and magnificence of the school.
After a while, Rax beckoned Syph down, “We should head to our class, at least, I think that’s what we need to do.” Rax had only hard a little of what this school was like.
I have sagely sageness everyone!
#AnduthForever (Lord Willing)You could head to class…. or burn down the school and fight agents. which would you prefer?lolololololol.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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