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[prevenge]

[What ho Paradisa. If you are the lobby now, you might find a somewhat unusual sight: three kids - well, two kids and one young teenager, really, the teenager conspicuously naked and sprawled out on one of the lobby couches. The teenager has long blue hair and is filthy. The kids are relatively clean, one of them - the older boy - graced with a crown of pale blond hair, the other a smaller little girl wearing a traditional robe and black pigtails. There's a journal nearby of course, and it picks up a voice which might sound a bit familiar:]

Hey... person! Hey! How come you're naked?

[Then the younger boy:] Because he's got no clothes, stupid.

I'm not stupid! [That seems to rile the little girl up; she gives the boy next to her a push.

It looks like this minor ruckus is enough to wake the third boy anyhow.] Whuh...?

[What do, Paradisa?]

[ooc: Yep, starting this loss a tad earlier than planned; tagging pattern will be something of a clusterfuck. There is no particular order planned; if you'd like to discuss any details, ping Stick on AIM at teamtoques, Red at LostBlueHeights, or Senri at Sushiflop.]

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[fishy_go_byebye]

[Del is not good with babies. As proven by her continuing to receive one, however, she's not bad with them either.

But she is looking at these three with a vague curiosity.]

[beforepride]

[yeah you know, he's finally getting around to looking at things that aren't the other kids, maybe to see where he is so that he can WHOA THAT LADY WHY IS SHE SO MANY DIFFERENT COLORS.

stopping and staring. just.

staring.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Del holds her hand out, and gestures lightly with her fingers - beckoning.]

Come here, little Tick. You're not you enough to have a Tock.

/snags Rin into this thread

[beforepride]

[he sort of... looks at those fingers, then looks over at the little Rin who's latched onto him as if her seven-year-old self had any more expertise in this particular matter.

SHOULD HE WALK TOWARDS THE WEIRD LADY? he doesn't know. ;;

but he does look back at her eventually, with a frown on his face.]

Are you a fairy?

[prevenge]

[Rin latches onto his hand and stares at Del, fingers raising to press against her mouth. It kinda looks like she's contemplating sucking her thumb, but she doesn't. She says nothing.]

Why's your hair like that?

[fishy_go_byebye]

[The flash of a laugh over her face is fast, even as a cat walks over her eyelid.]

They'd get very mad if I said yes. It's because they think they're special.

[beforepride]

[....what does that even mean. he leans over to Rin and whispers.]

I think she's magic. I'm gonna go look.

[prevenge]

She's got things on her face. `[Quiet in return really. She clutches his hand harder, but she'll go if he goes.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Del settles on her haunches after taking off her shirt to hand to the boy. Fishnets were more than she really needed, anyway.

The cat skittered down her arm, clawing its way over nails and to her palm even as a snake twined around her neck.]

[beforepride]

Oh. [now he thinks she's a witch, but he's not gonna say that, because that really makes people scared. and he doesn't need Rin getting freaked out.

so he'll tug away from her hand and walk up to the weird lady. :|]

[prevenge]

[Rin crowds up to him but follows, still clutching stubbornly onto his hand. She stares with enormous eyes at Del.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

Little Tick~

[beforepride]

What does that mean? I'm not a bug.

[he's just standing in front of her. looking at her. NO FEAR. mostly just quietly trying to figure out what she is.]

[littleharbinger]

[WELL HEY she has this kid's attention pretty damn fast. She doesn't... feel like other people feel, and it makes his eyes go wide.

Just staring, maybe blinking a little against the way that she shows up something like a lensflare and feels like a hiccup in his mind]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[Her other hand extends much more loosely to Blue, almost careless in the way it gestures near the floor.]

Do you hear me still? I'll keep the order maybe somehow, no invasions.

[littleharbinger]

[the handwave sort of toward the floor is at least on the less-threatening end of familiar. And the women here were mostly weirdly helpful, from what he sort of vaguely remembers.

So... he shuffles just a little bit closer, unsure of how to answer her]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[She starts to tug her large, baggy shirt off over her head. He is naked, yes? She can fix that. It is what people do, when children are around. She's fairly sure.

She holds the shirt out towards him, still low to the ground, top half clad only is ripped fishnets now.]

I promise not to ripple.

[She promised to try not to ripple.]

[littleharbinger]

[if this was his first visit to the castle, there would be the whole huge wrestling with himself struggle to even take the thing from her without being directly instructed to. But, with the feeling that he's already gone through this whole routine once before without trouble, he... gets himself to reach out and very tentatively take it from her.

But, even after a halfway paranoid glance over his shoulder, he still can't just assume that he should put it on. So... looking back up to her, hesitating, questioning]

[fishy_go_byebye]

I used to keep treats in my pockets, but he said it made me smell like bacon gone trash and wouldn't let me anymore.

[She traces the floor with a finger before gesturing for him to put the shirt on.]

[littleharbinger]

[oh, well. She's crazy, it seems.

And, not ever remembering there being a rule against taking things from crazy ladies, he complies. Balling up the short lengths of chain hanging from his shackles into his hands, he shrugs his way into the shirt... already feeling marginally better about things.

Also, since she's crazy, it's easier to take that potentially rude step and speak up]

...Who are you?

[fishy_go_byebye]

'M Del. And you're Blue. Little Blue. Hello hello~

[littleharbinger]

[big yellow eyes blink a little]

Hello.

[fishy_go_byebye]

[He wasn't quite hers yet. Only just starting to find home, it seemed. It would be rude to take him early, yes?

Yes. Maybe. Probably.]

Back again?

[littleharbinger]

[oh, the foundation bricks are there at least, and they run deep deep deep...

and, ah! something that he can answer with confidence!]

[he nods] Yes. I don't know why, though.

[fishy_go_byebye]

Because Paradise Lost stole you away.