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Post by Kari Muffin on Jun 13, 2011 17:43:11 GMT -5
Gigi gave a small shrug. "Cute things can be scary. Like... cats. They're cute and then they aren't." The girl frowned as she tried to figure out how to elaborate without sounding "completely crazy." Something fluffy darted in the corner of her eye, she involuntarily flinched. Maybe she should get back to walking.
Her eyes widened slightly at the coyote's smile. That was quite wide and filled with quite a few teeth. She shifted a bit on her hooves with her eyes as wide as dinner plates. "You do have sharp teeth," she said warily as she decided to start walking again. She had never seen someone with a mouth so wide or a set of teeth so sharp. That's what she got for being related to mostly bird's, she supposed. There was that wolf she had saw but his mouth didn't go as far as Ginger's did.
Walking. Walking. She should just keep focusing on getting back to everyone. "Is this a normal place for kids like us to um... be?"
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Post by Lucca on Jun 15, 2011 9:13:06 GMT -5
Ginger considered this for a moment, eyeless head tilting in a motion that may have looked cute on a normal Coyote pup, but ended up looking vaguely strange on her. Then she eventually nodded. "I think I know what you meeeaaaan. Caaaaats have sharp claws," she pointed out almost proudly, tail wagging a bit. She moved her paw to scratch below Blobby's head, where the chin might be on a normal animal. It burbled quite happily and tilted its head further back, her paw following and adjusting for the new angle.
She slipped her paw off it as Gigi started walking, cheerfully taking up the lead again. Her ragged tail wagged at a fast beat and she left a black footprint in her wake. She darted down an alley to take a shortcut that she'd been told about. Globby followed at a slower pace, now more or less ignoring Gigi. Ginger wasn't going to forget about it, it now knew. Ginger paused when the new question was asked, and her flaming eye turned in a slow circle, taking in the dirty street.
"Noooooooot really," she admitted with a shrug. "Buuuut it's the best way to take."
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jun 15, 2011 17:04:14 GMT -5
Her hooves clicked with each hesitant step through the alleyway. It wasn't as clean as the other places she had been, and now that she knew she wasn't supposed to be in the place she felt far more apprehensive about the entire situation.
Gigi eyed the blob with a frown on her muzzle. The giraffe wanted to make friends since the girl was nice, but the blob thingy wasn't.
"Okay..." she said in a half whisper. "Well um, is the fast way like this the entire time? I mean... a little creepy?" She was doing her best to engage in some form of conversation. That's what people did. They chatted. They asked questions. They felt awkward the entire time. Well, the last bit wasn't exactly right, it was just how she felt.
"Is there any place to play around here like... um a garden? I don't know what it's called in the city, but where I live there's a nice place where we all play. I got stuck in a tree once."
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Post by Lucca on Jun 18, 2011 7:57:39 GMT -5
Ginger was rather used to places like this, and it didn't really cross her mind that other children might not be. Creepy was a word that, honestly, wasn't even in the girl's vocabulary. With her family and the way it was, all of them could be considered a little creepy by the outside world, and she had heard them described as such in the past. So she'd never been clear on the meaning of the word. Her eyes continued to turn in a slow circle. It settled on Gigi and the flame flickered a bit.
"What do you meeeeaaaaan?" she asked, honest curiosity in her voice. She went to keep walking, then, paws getting a bit dirty in the alley, but she didn't seem to care so much, or even to notice. Blobby followed, a silent companion but for the splorching noise it made.
At the next question, Ginger thought it over. A garden? She'd seen lots of gardens, but she wasn't allowed to play in them. So that meant... "You mean the park?" Her tail started to wag. She loved the park! She didn't get to go there with the frequency of other kids, but it sure was nice to have a chance to mingle with other children. She just felt a bit bad that Sally could never come with them. "Yeaaaaaah, there's one around here!"
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jun 19, 2011 22:47:17 GMT -5
"I mean it's... scary and dirty. W-what if someone attacks us or something?" The giraffe jumped slightly when she saw a cat dart across her path. She knew they weren't "real" to other people, but they were real to her, and they seemed to enjoy these alleyways, which just made her more jumpy than she needed to be.
Ginger didn't seem to be bothered by it though, so maybe it wasn't bad? Maybe she was just sheltered. She had been told that once.
"Oh! A park! That's it!" she said when she heard the word. The change of subject was a good thing, she was starting to dwell on her fear. "So the city has parks. What we have back home is a garden. I've never been to a Park... is it on the way to the place I need to be?"
Even if it wasn't she kind of wanted to investigate. Ez had said that they could go there and play for a bit, but now that she was lost he probably wouldn't let her go. She should get back as soon as possible.
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Post by Lucca on Jun 28, 2011 9:46:56 GMT -5
Scary and dirty? Ginger's eye turned a slow circle to take in the alley. Dirty...yes, it was, a bit. She could feel the dust under her paws, but really, the central market street was pretty dirty, too. The air there always smelled of rotten fruit and cooking meat and there were bits of trash everywhere before the workers came to clean them up. Scary...another one of those weird words. But this one, she thought she knew what it meant. One time, Ginger had been walking home from school and been caught in a sudden rainstorm. Her eye had fizzled and burned with the water falling on it, and Ginger had been so very, very afraid it would go out.
But why would that sort of fear exist here? If it did she should really take Gigi somewhere else. "No one is heeeere," she replied, and then, "yeeeeees." After all, the park was really close to where they were now, if the little Coyote remembered correctly. And if Gigi was scared then they shouldn't stay here. Ginger changed direction suddenly, darting out of the ally and between two buildings. As soon as they emerged back onto the main street, a patch of green would be visible up the road.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jun 28, 2011 17:40:26 GMT -5
The giraffe squeaked in surprise slightly when the coyote suddenly picked up the pace. She was still nervous about everything, but she should honestly get used to being terrified. It was going to happen often until she understood the world around her. Which Ez said was probably going to take an extra long time.
That was discouraging, but the brightly colored grass in the distance gave the girl a cheerful perk. She liked grass. It was soft and felt fantastic, and most of all it made her feel safe. So she picked up the pace a bit so she was in line with the Coyote girl.
The park wasn't as fancy as the garden's that she had frolicked in back at the Court of Diamonds, but it was still nicely taken care of. It seemed to have a few things for children the climb on, along with a bench for sitting. Most everything wasn't built for her awkwardness, but she could live with that.
"This is really pretty... thanks for bringing me here," she said as she shuffled towards one of the odd things that seemed to be for climbing.
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Post by Lucca on Jul 4, 2011 14:41:50 GMT -5
Ginger's tail was wagging frantically as she got to the park and gave into the urge to just roll around in the grass like the puppy she was. Her eye stayed floating above her, even when she was upside down, so as not to set anything on unfortunate on fire. She'd done that before, and it had never really turned out well. As she jumped back up, fur stained in green and brown and tongue lolling out of her mouth in contentment, she saw her new friend walking away.
Ginger's head tilted in confusion, until she realized that Gigi was just going to play! Oh, that was great! Her tail wagged. "Heeeeeey I'm so happy you like it!" she yipped, and bounded after the long-neck, tail wagging. She'd been here several times before, and it was always fun to run around and climb the various structures in the park. Her paws tended to slip and slide a bit on the metal, and she couldn't properly grip a lot of the bars, but there were usually alternate ways up for those children who had only their animal forms.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jul 4, 2011 21:53:26 GMT -5
The giraffe gave the girl a hesitant smile as she poked at one of the mental bobbing contraptions with a hoof. Could she even sit on half of these things? The world wasn't built for someone as odd as her. Her sight wandered around the tiny park before her gaze paused on a sea-saw.
"What's... that thing?" she said as she walked towards it. When she was close enough she reached out and gently tapped the high seat. It bobbed down for a bit before snapping back upwards, the giraffe gasping and jumping with surprise. Why didn't they have these things at the palace? They looked really interesting.... maybe they were part of the books that she was supposed to be reading. Then again she had piles and piles of stuff she still had to learn.
The sudden realization that she should know what a lot of things were made her blush a bit. She didn't like the feeling she got when she was embarrassed. "Sorry... I um... don't get out much."
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Post by Lucca on Jul 9, 2011 10:12:06 GMT -5
Gigi seemed so confused about everything here! It was like she'd never seen any of it before, almost. Ginger's tail wagged in excitement, of being able to show someone how to do something! That made her kind of like the older sister, for once! Usually she was only the youngest sister, and everyone else was showing -her- how to do things or what something was. In a brief moment of rare clarity of thought, the pup was reminded of her sister, Sally, who could never experience any of this. The thought brought her tail to momentary stillness and made the smile on her wide mouth tilt down a little.
But in the next moment she noticed Gigi playing with the see-saw and she bounded eagerly over, flaming eye sputtering a bit. "That's a seeeeeeee-sawwwww." She giggled and said it again, because it was fun to say! "Seeeee-saaawwww. You get on one side and I get on the other one!" Tail wagging up a storm, she perched herself on the opposite end from the one Gigi was near. The side instantly hit the ground, having nothing to balance it.
Left behind, a little black blob oozed its way towards the park, grumbling a bit under its breath,
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