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 Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:35 am
"I'm hungry."
"I gave you three cheese doodles. By all means, that should've filled you up. You're miniscule."
"I don't LIKE cheese doodles," Rubidium said defiantly, trying to get comfortable in Andy's breast pocket and failing. "And there's something sticky in here."
"Don't eat it," Andy said, peering into his pocket. Rubidium looked back up at him with a frank expression.
"I'm not stupid," Ru said, poking his head out of Andy's pocket like a prairie dog, looking around alertly in all directions. "Hey, go over there! There's a hotdog stand!"
"No. Absolutely not."
"I'll scream and people'll look at you and wonder why you have a screaming pocket."
And so Andy went over to the hotdog stand, easily cowed.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:42 am
On the edge of the Hot Dog Stand awning there were two tiny figures taking refuge. One was a gorgeous faerie with golden earrings, red wings, and red striped markings. She had an airy smile on her face and she seemed uninterested in most of the world around her.
The troublesome one was Gallium. The mirrored mendel half-hung and half-dripped ovver the awning. Her silvered eyes were wide and she was sporting a wicked grin. Whatever she was up to, it wasn't good.
"Hot doooogs." Valsharess, the faerie, talked softly aloud in her unique way. "They aren't dogs at all. No no no. That is why they are so good. Or are they? I don't know I never ate one. Hee. All this time and never a doggie for me."
Gallium groaned, "Val. Shut the hell up! You'll give us away!" She was lowering a string with a needle tied to the end down to the condiments. Stealing?! STEALING PICKLES?!
She didn't seem to care that anyone wanting to get a hot dog might get a needle in the eye...
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:21 am
"Two dogs please," said Aster, holding up two fingers on a wrist with a thick snake bangle that... almost seemed like it was peering at the food with a scrutinizing expression.
"Pickles or -- ow!!" She exclaimed suddenly, dropping one of the hotdogs on the ground to clutch her eye.
Titanium tightened his grip around Aster's wrist at the unexpected lurch, reaching out with his arms to steady himself. "What the devil was that all about?" he asked, none too pleased at the abrupt movement.
"I got something in my eye," she said, uncovering the eye after finding a... needle? Well, that explained the poking. It did not, however, explain why a needle had a string attached.
Ti decided the best way to find that out was to pull on it, and reached over Aster's palm to give the string a firm tug between his dino-fingers.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:35 pm
"Hey, that lady just got poked in the eye with a hotdog-needle," Rubidium said worriedly, ducking back into Andy's pocket. "I don't want to eat things that'll stab me in the eye, Andy..."
"You shouldn't want to eat hotdogs anyway, you know how many bugs and scrap animal parts go into these things?" Andy said, ignoring the vendor's scandalized expression. "It's pretty much healthier to eat the stuff sucked out of a pool skimmer."
"That's gross, you're gross, and now you look like a loony 'cause you're talking to your pocket."
Andy flushed slightly, covering his pocket with his hand. Shoot. He still wasn't used to discreet conversation; and indeed, a few passerby were looking at him like he was talking to thin air.
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:33 am
Gallium, of course, had seen Aster walk right into the needle and even though a grown woman wasn't her intended catch, she couldn't help but cackle in glee when it happened. Of course her cackling stopped as soon as the string in her hands started to get yanked.
"Oh ********!" She got half pulled off the awning before she yanked back.
"Hee! Fight! Fight!" Valsharess giggled and grabbed a hold of Gallium's ankle when she thought her mendel sister would be pulled from her perch. She got goo between her fingers, but she wasn't the type to be picky.
Instead of having a tug of war Gallium finally let go, slumping onto her behind before she rose up, stared down at the invasive Aster (and Ti) and let out a string of curses that would make a sailor blush.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:16 pm
"Good lord you're everywhere. Should I just check for you to drip in from now on?" Titanium said, coolly handling the rain of expletives,"And how did you become more foulmouthed than you used to be? That has to be some sort of accomplishment." He didn't make a move to head up any higher, just returned Gallium's staring with a flat stare of his own.
Rubbing her eye furiously, Aster couldn't really help overhearing Andy and Rubidium. Blame it on years of listening for small voices talking to her, both in and out of her brain.
"It's not nice to bait people into looking stupid," she said, looking down at Ti for a second, before the notion rattled into her head that the tiny voice speaking had a completely different pitch. Some frantic looking around results in her noticing Andy. He's rewarded with some uncomfortable staring.
"Um, you weren't the one talking in that mouse-sized voice just now, were you?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:45 pm
Andy froze, looking like a deer caught in headlights.
"Uh. Er."
Brilliant conversationalist, he was not.
"HALLO!"
Rubidium had heard mention of something vaguely pertaining to himself, and took the opportunity to pop out of Andy's pocket like spring daisy. He beamed even as Andy gave a scandalized curse and tried to hide him, batting the shielding hand away.
"I'm Rubidium and it's really really REALLY nice to meet you you're my size and that's AWESOME."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:28 pm
Gallium made a face at Ti, "You'll never escape me!"
Valsharess was more interested in the newest tiny person to join their gathering. She hovered up above Gallium, zipped past Aster and Andy's face, and stopped in front of his pocket.
"Hello. You are red.. I am red too! It's a lovely color. Like roses.."
"Or blood!" Gallium snorted. She was now stuck on the awning since her ride was more interested in someone else. "Who're you?!" She screamed, unnecessarily, down to the new arrivals.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:15 pm
Oh, well there you go. Just another tiny person in a pocket. This was Gaia, she should have known better by now.
"Hey there Rubidium, and... fellow poor soul," said Aster, uttering the last part pretty quickly, "I'm Aster, and this is Titanium." She held up the wrist Ti was clinging to show him off. Unfortunately, she forgot to tell Ti his world was about to jolt suddenly.
"Do you say that to all the men you haunt, or am I just special?" he asked, feeling fairly sassy until he was suddenly waving his arms to catch his balance from Aster pulling him around.
"And this is Titanium."
"Charmed, hello," he said, after giving Aster something of a piercing glare. Squinting a little at Rubidium, he inquisitively asked,"I take it you're new?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:19 am
Rubidium squirmed out of Andy's pocket and took a swandive right onto the vendor's cart, landing gracelessly but popping up unharmed. He scooted right next to Titanium, looking fit to burst from excitement.
"I am, I am," he chirped, looking up at Ti with something close to deference. He looked like a cobra. "You don't have legs."
"RU."
"Well he DOESN'T."
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