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Been busy of late... Entered one more coloring contest, last one for a whle, I swear! http://gino.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1337271 ... Well, last one until I spot another contest in the breedables forum with lineart I like, anyway.

I'll be sad if I lose most of the contests... I work hard on the greyscales. The coloring bit is easy, but the greyscale is what has all the detail and it's not so easy. So having completed a greyscale, I can whip out a hundred colored variations easy, but if I don't win the contest... I've created a greyscale for nothing.

But enough about that depressing fact. I was playing with Kasha earlier today, I think she tried to say "Kancho!" I distinctly her her go "achu." And not in a sneezing way! She's such a little ray of sunshine, really. Still working on those brothers for her!

Kancho's finished moving in. I gave him space in the wall between the bathroom and the living room, they way he has easy access to both the balcony and me and Kasha. Max might come by for a visit, too.

Aiyah, I moved out of the main house, but the main house seems to be moving in with me!

Oh, oh, and let me not forget the biggest news! I GOTS A SIGIL!!1!one Sigils are these incredible creatures... the two I've seen so far, at least! They must be seen to be believed.

http://rufus.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=903527

Corvus is wary about the creatures. They seem to be naturally dark, which he likes, but he's worried about what might pop out of the scroll and harm me. Silly Corvus, I'm too powerful to be harmed by a little imp, and the darkness just perfectly suits us both! I know I'll get along with whatever my scroll reveals. After all, if I can get along with Corvy, I can get along with anyone! <g>

Oh, yes, and tonight Corvus and I are going to see Puchi in Oliver. Should be fun! I'm certainly excited about it! REMINDER TO SELF: have roommates tape Stargate.

There are SO many updates to make...

Most amazingly, Kipestshin gave me the Kymaera I'd bid on from the auction! eek I named hir Chedem. Shi is so incredibly beautiful and unique. Shi really turns heads. ^^ Corvus was speechless when I brought her home, this towering creature that looks like nothing else on the planet. Kancho was nonplussed, since he's used to dealing with aliens, and appearances don't matter to him. Chedem is amazing! She poked at Telrik and was very curious about the apartment.

Unfortunately, I don't know what I'm going to be doing with her. She's hardly my smallest pet... and then I got an idea. A long time ago, we had a sort of shrink-ray device that could miniaturize living beings. It's only a temporary thing, but for now, Chedem is about Corvus's size. A bit bigger, actually. Like a feien-sized ostrich. Corvus could ride her. She's quite tame and friendly. She'd probably let him. He weighs next to nothing!

Of course, Corvus's pride wouldn't let him do something like that, though at the moment he can't fly. He hasn't been able to use any magic since last night. He was so exhausted, he conked out and slept well into the afternoon. He's asleep again now, curled up in his drawer with Griswald at his side.

I just peeked in there. The Piffle egg is there, still nothing from it, though you'd think a dust bunny-ish creature like a piffle would probably enjoy being in a dusty little corner. I hope so, anyway.

But back to updates. Here's a big one! Kasha is now a kid! Kancho's so pleased! She's talking in full, if short, sentences and calling him "Kampa." She's so cute and sweet! She likes me, too, but you can tell it's Kancho she prefers, following him around and stuff. He had to go bring down a small bed so she can sleep in the room I made for him. It's really just an emergency cot on the floor with a comforter on it, but she likes it just fine. She had dozens of questions for Corvus. I might have to bring her by the shop.

She is so spoiled. ^^

I've also acquired a Bloomling named Snapdragon who was abandoned. She's so gorgeous! And she's blue! My favorite color. ^^ At first, I put her in the hallway, thinking she'd have lots to interact with there, but then I remembered the cats have a nasty habit of going in any potted plants on the floor, so I moved her to the serving counter in the kitchen, which is where my roomie keeps her plants, and also where the feien plant is. Snap is very intelligent and sweet. A bit nervous about her new home, but so far she seems to be liking it. She and Kasha talked for a bit.

One of my Tahra'i is up for auction. Cool. I hope it gets a good price! http://rina.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1412717

I know I said I'd stop, but... new coloring contest I've entered: http://rufus.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1416422

Additionally, I made it into the final round of the Ava Raji voting, but I have no chance of winning against the popular Bliz. Still... http://gino.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1411762

And the March birthstone dragon auction has started! I'm so going to win this one! http://edmund.go-gaia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1420726

By the way, what's with the new servers? Edmund? Whozzat?

I went to the shop to collect Corvus very late, since he hadn't come home. By the time I got there, the shop was deserted, no one in sight. And then Corvus popped out in front of me, teleporting again.

He looked so utterly terrible. His eyes were red and puffy and his nose was red and he was covered in dust and smudges of dirt. There were a couple of scrapes on his body and a few splinters sticking out of his arms and legs. He looked at me with the most pathetic look on his face and sneezed, and then he just dropped forward and latched onto my shirt. I didn't complain, even though he was *cough* latched onto my boob, really. (Hey, they're fairly big, and quite cushiony, so that's kind of what they're there for...)

I didn't ask him what was wrong since he didn't seem to want to talk about it. Instead, I took him down to Margaret Pace Park. At night, all the lights are out and the sprinklers are on. I was careful to avoid the sprinklers because the last thing a beat-up, sneezing, sniffling dirty feien needs is to be soaking wet.

As usual, the wind was coming off the bay. Giant gales. I love the wind. If I didn't have a darkness fairy, I've have a wind one. There are these incredible giant chairs in the park, real works of art, that look out at the bay. Whenever I'm having a hard time I like to go there and sit in them. They're probably about twenty feet tall and seat two. Because they have high sides and backs, they protect you from the wind a bit. To backstep a bit, I let Corvy ride inside my shirt since it's so incredibly windy out there and I didn't want him to be cold.

So we sat there for a while and didn't say anything, Corvy tucked warmly inside my shirt, looking out at the bay. It's absolutely gorgeous at night. It's dark, but we're in the city so it's never pitch black. Even at night you can make out the whitecaps of the waves quite easily. The water looks a purplish black. Across the bay are a thousand tiny dots of light. It's so beautiful. I absolutely love living in the city.

After a while, Corvy started to cry again, because apparently he still had a few tears left to shed. And me, being the big sap I am, cried a tiny bit too. I always cry at the movies and things like that. Of course, i was just crying because Corvy looked so sad... He was crying because he was sad.

Eventually, he started to talk. He said a lot of things, how everyone hated him and Arturo was a b*****d. When I asked why, he explained that Arturo kept talking like he knew everything, and he didn't, he just didn't. Only from the way Corvy was reacting, I'd guess Arturo must have known what he was talking about. If he didn't, Corvy wouldn't be so upset about it. If you know someone's wrong, it's easy to ignore them.

After Corvus seemed to have calmed down, we headed for home. There I took the tweezers and picked out the splinters and wet a tissue and wiped him gently down. Apparently he was inside the shop wall again. It's a real mess back there. Then I used an antiseptic wipe to wash his cuts, which made him flinch quite a bit, and applied some salve. Finally, I made sure he had a good drink of water and some food. Have to worry about dehydration when someone's cried that much, and it was pretty obvious he was exhausted. Teleporting seems to do that.

I think he probably would have liked to sleep next to me, but I'm too afraid I'd roll over and kill him in the middle of the night, so I put him down in his drawer on his tissue bed. Griswald curled right up next to him and started purring. I'll have to change the bedding tomorrow thanks to all the salve he's got on him, which is fine.

I asked him if he wanted to write about it, but he said no. Maybe we'll talk more tomorrow.

I'll also have to give the general household updates tomorrow; there are a bunch!

So, as I said yesterday, I needed to explain what happened when my new Pixacat got here. His name's Colin. As in Colin Creevey. From Harry Potter.

There had been an auction for a group of Harry Potter Pixacats, and my heart was stolen by that cute little fluffball Colin. He was so adorable! So I bought him and took him home. He chattered the whole way home. When I finally got to the door of my room, I told him to shush, there were some important people for him to meet, so he nestled down in the palm of my hand (he is TINY). "Corvus!" I went.

As normal, Corvus was rather grumpy, so replied with a dark, "What." He looked like he fully expected me to announce yet another new pet. (He's noticed that I've been on a roll lately.) "Guess what I got?" I said anyway.

"A new pet," he answered.

"But not just any new pet! A Pixacat!" And I held out my hand.

"Hi!" went Colin.

And Corvus jumped two and a half feet into the air.

After a very confused minute or two, I put Colin down in Corvus's drawer next to Griswald.

Colin: "Hi, I'm Colin."

Griswald: "Griswald."

Corvus: <-- too shocked to speak

And then Corvus got really, really mad. See, Griswald's never spoken to him, and he had no idea Griswald could talk. He said as much to Gris, who replied, "You never asked."

Poor Colin had no idea what he'd gotten himself into. He meant well, I know, but Corvus just started yelling at everyone within earshot and then flew out the window. I told Colin not to worry about it; that's Corvus for you.

But Colin does talk a lot. Eventually, Griswald asked him to be quiet. I fear Colin's not going to last in Corvus's drawer, so I moved him to Snapdragon's pot. He's much happier there, digging around in the dirt and talking to her and Marius.

On Snapdragon and Marius: They're both Bloomlings, sure, but they're not two personalities that naturally mesh well. They're cordial enough to one another, but no deep friendship. Marius seems to prefer Kancho and Rikard. Rikard's really acquiring quite a few pets... I think he's a bit lonely since Meepo left him for Aervwen. He really liked having that little goblin around.

Talos and Caligula are going to come for a visit soon. Talos mentioned some sort of problem.

I was an absolute fool to think it, much less even try. So no one likes me best, eh? That's fine. We'll see who's laughing when all is done and said.

I have no idea when Corvus came back last night, only that when I woke up he was sprawled across the pillow beside me. Thinking this was just another morning, I poked him to wake up.

He did wake up. But it wasn't a typical morning.

It took a good two pokes before I got a response out of him. He sat up groggily, rubbed his eyes (he is NOT a morning person) and then stared at me darkly. "You touched me," he said.

"So?" said I, equally as tired if not more.

"You TOUCHED ME."

"Wehh?"

He leapt to his feet (he's rather fast) and pointed at me accusingly. "Don't ever touch me again!" he ordered.

At this, I was muchly confused. Sure, neither of us likes touching very much, but we've never minded each other all that much. Still, I mumbled a sleepy, "Sorry," and went to get dressed.

While I was dressing, Corvus fluttered over to his drawer. I was kind of wondering why he hadn't slept there. Griswald and Colin were still sleeping. Corvus scowled at them both a moment and then kicked the side of the drawer. Really hard.

This resulted in two things. First, Griswald and Colin woke up. Second, Corvus uttered an oath in Rhea so strong that Kancho, who IS a morning person and had been brushing his teeth, stormed into the room and began to tell Corvus off (in Rhea).

When Kancho tells someone off... he really does a job of it. Most of what he said won't translate, but suffice to say he's well-informed when it comes to Corvus's shortcomings, particularly those shortcomings Corvus feels the most insecure about.

And in case you're wondering, the swear Corvus said applied not only to Colin and Griswald, but also to my desk and me, which is what got Kancho riled up. It takes a lot to make him flip out like this. That, and Kancho hadn't had his coffee yet, so was a mite grumpy.

I was too shocked at the two of them to object to the tongue-lashing. Kancho was being rather loud, though, so naturally Kasha wanders in from the other room, very sleepy, and Tarpeia gets up from her bed on the desk, and then, to top it all off, Saisai had been in the apartment making coffee for himself and Kancho, so HE comes in, too, and Snapdragon's on his tail...

Currently present in the room: me, Kancho, Kasha, Colin, Griswald, Saisai, Tarpeia, Snapdragon.

Which is seven presences too many for Corvus, who flips out.

"It was supposed to be just you and me! Only you me!" he starts off saying as he flies up to me.

"I'm sorry," I say back, once again rather shocked.

"I didn't ask to be living with a dozen other people! I didn't ask to share my home with anyone else! Why the hell do you have to invite all these other people here? Am I not good enough company for you??"

For the record, I have been sharing my home for as long as I can remember. My home is always open to those who need it. I pride myself on this. "I-- of couse not! But they're my family--"

"They're not MINE!" screams Corvus. "I have no family! I have no friends! I have nothing!"

"Corvus, calm down!" I protest. Kancho moves forward to try and assist, but Corvus is too quick and rushes up to the area of the ceiling, outside of our reach. Saisai makes an offer to "catch the little b*****d" which I quickly dismiss. I continue, "I can see you're upset. Let's have some breakfast, things will look different then."

"I don't want any breakfast! I want you all to die and go away! All of you!" he replies, but it's pretty obvious he's talking out of anger, since when he gets this angry he trembles and looks like he's about to cry.

Well, if I won't give Saisai the go-ahead to catch Corvus, Kancho will, and does. Saisai picks up the nearest piece of laundry (just a large t-shirt, thank the gods) and jumps into the air, netting Corvus easily. (As a note, Saisai is not only the tallest among us but also the most physically in shape.)

"It doesn't matter, he can teleport!" I say to Saisai, but that fact doesn't seem to make a difference, as Corvus is quite thoroughly caught. I order Saisai to hand Corvus over and dismiss both him and Kancho. (Which is both presumptuous and perfectly in line at the same time; depending on the situation, I am sometimes considered their superior. Normally, Kancho gives the orders, because even being retired he still outranks me militarily.)

Anyway, I now have a shirt full of struggling, cursing, violent feien. I manage to get a hand around Corvus so I can extract him.

He is behaving like a two-year-old. Not only does he pummel away at my hand (rather uselessly; my right hand is stronger than him, honest), he's crying and throwing a tantrum the size of Cleveland. "Corvus, what the hell is wrong?" I ask, to no avail.

I know if he'd been able to, he would have teleported out of there in an instant. Thankfully, since he'd used up his magic at some point, his escape was rather out of the question.

I think.

He starts going on about how I should stop touching him some more. Now I'm starting to get upset, protesting that we'd always been okay with each other, so what's different now? To which he replies I clearly like everyone else better than him.

"Corvus, I could never like anyone in the universe more than I like you, except perhaps Kancho and Talos. And that's a very tight crowd."

"See? See? Even you don't like me best!"

I sigh. "If Kancho asked me that question, or Talos, you know what I'd say? I like you both better than anyone else in the universe except perhaps for each other and Corvus. You can't ask me to compare you like that! You three are my favorite people! I like you each in a different way, no better or worse than the others."

"You don't really love me!" he accuses.

Ouch.

But even though that hurts, I swallow. "Yes, I do, Corvus, more than ever. You're only saying that because at the moment, you don't like yourself or see how anyone else could. But we do. We love you a great deal, and nothing you can do or fail to do will ever change that." I am, of course, repeating a speech Kancho once gave me -- verbatim. I can't come up with stuff this wise on my own. "If only you could see how beautiful you look from here."

Okay, so maybe doing the speech verbatim wasn't the greatest idea. Corvus is a lot of things. "Beautiful" is not usually one of the words I'd use to describe him, though.

"But you don't know!"

Time to make up my own speech. "It's like art, Corvus. The artist alays thinks it's crap and can see all the flaws. The viewer sees the great things. That's why the gods put six billion other people on the planet. To figure out the good stuff we can't see in ourselves."

"Just let me go, leave me alone, don't touch me any more," he says, clinging to his despair. That, of course, only makes me want to hug him. Someone once said that the time when you want a hug the least is the time when you need it the most.

"Do you really want me to do that?" I ask.

"Yes. I want everyone to leave me alone. Forever."

Even though this is probably one of those yes is no situations, I relent. Because I always relent to the other person's will. So I release him.

The first thing he does is fly into the closet to my dressed. There's a large scrap of black cloth in there that's leftover from a pirate costume I wore. Corvus took it and wrapped it around himself. He wrapped and wrapped, like a toga meets a sari with too much material all around. A few quick mends and the thing was permanently fixed to be a very haphazard piece of feien clothing. He looked more like a winged rag than anything.

A winged rag that quickly flew out the open window, and I just watched.

You know, I never did get around to explaining Tarpeia's arrival. I was lucky enough to win a wonderful Chalcedony Gryphon in an auction. She's s gorgeous! Black and red markings! She reminds me of Rikard a bit.

In any event, I brought her home several days ago and completely forgot to note it! *facepalms* She's small -- think of a gryphon a feien could ride. She immediately took a liking to the couch I sleep on and ym feather comforter. Unfortunately, I don't let pets sleep there usually since it's small and hard to fit both oneself and a pet. So instead I made her a nest on my desk.

She spends her time crooning at everyone (she's spoilt rotten by the lot of us) and jumping around, playing with Alderaan and Cooper (the cats). She's very adventurous. I'm afraid to leave the window open for fear she might try to jump out. But then I have to leave the window open in case Corvy comes back.

Back when Corvy first met Tarpeia, I didn't think he minded her. He seemed to find her fairly interesting. But ever since he left, I've been thinking he probably doesn't really like her all that much. Maybe she'd be better off with Rikard, Telrik, and Voldemort. I know Rikard likes her coloring; he commented as much when he saw her. And her coloring is incredibly awesome.

Talos and Caligula have been meaning to come over but keep getting delayed. Tomorrow they will be here, no matter what.

I alos recently acquired a Lunaqua and a Hatoryuu, both of which are aquatic creatures. I always resisted aquatic creatures on account of the fact I have no real place for them. The pool is chlorinated, the bay stinks, my roommate showers often so the bathroom is out of the question. Then I had the brilliant idea to ask about fountains around Etoh and Fianna's castle. Of course they have them, and of course they'll be more than happy to house some aquatic creatures. They hope the Hatoryuu and Lunaqua will help give Marcel a connection with Gaia. So Nietzsche and Teiorath will have very happy homes.

OMG OMG OMG!!!!

Oh, still no sign of Corvy.

But my Sigil scroll opened! I stopped by the raffle today, and Tera and Trio were there, and they let me play with their goops, and my Sigil came out! O_O

And recently, I've been listening to Lemon Demon, so... MEET LEMON!



Is she not GORGEOUS? She loves crawling on my head, intwined in my hair. Thankfully she's quite light, so she doesn't hurt me or anything by doing it. She also loves to makes these little crooning noises. "Kroo!" she goes. She's the cutest thing ever and I love her. ^^

I'm worried how Corvy will react to her, though. Assuming he ever comes back. I'm starting to think I might want to send out search parties. I'm getting really, really worried.