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 Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:03 pm
On the mantle piece was a picture, a younger looking Tobi and a very attractive woman, in the picture they were sitting under a tree smiling towards the painter, they were holding hands and obvliously very much in love.
And by the picture another thing was framed, except it was a piece of cloth and a tiny pit of blonde hair, the same color as the girl's in the painting.
Tobi was in the kitchen fixing the tea, he was taking his time about it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:08 pm
Iris got bored feuling her own anger and waiting for Tobi, so she stood up, with the blanket still around her shoulders, and went to find him. Finding him in the kitchen, she noticed the painting and went over to look at it while idly scratching her back. The storm was just about over, but who ever had made the first storm had created a few others and they were all heading this way.
"Who's the girl?" Iris asked, trying to get at the one spot on her back that she couldn't reach.
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:12 pm
He turned to look at her over his shoulder confusion written on his face, "G-Girl?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:25 pm
"The girl in the picture there." Iris said, pointing to it as she still tried to get to an itch that she couldn't reach. "She looks very beautiful, almost a bit like my sister Demeter, except Demeter was more of a dirty blonde than a true blonde..."
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:13 pm
He blinked and had to catch his balance by holdign on the the counter as he looked ovre his shoulder to the painting, "O-o-oh, th-that girl; th-the-that's N-Niah, ss-ss-She was... my f-f-fin-fiance... b-but ssshe... le-left me. Th-then sh-she tri-tried to k-kill m-me, I-I end up ki-killing her..."
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:47 pm
"Oh...sorry I asked then." Iris said, studying the painting. Holding a lock of her own hair before her eyes, the aeromaster looked over the colorless hair. The blue streaks were faded and almost gone now...she had dyed them at first just to make a point. A point she had long since forgotten, but one nonetheless.
Iris felt jealous of Niah's beauty. Niah was so vibrant and full of color...Iris was pale and ghost-like. Who would want a girl who looked icy, frozen, and cold? Who would want someone as strange as Iris?
"I wish I could be beautiful like her..." Iris muttered, wrapping the blanket around her shoulders better. She left the kitchen to go back to the library. Already the first storm had passed, but a second one was on its way.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:37 pm
Tobi rose a brow and the tray with the hot water and the chocolate powder followed him, he hopped into the room as the tray settled itself on the harth, where it was easy for her to reach; "Wh-what a-are you ta-talking a-abo-about? Y-you ar-are be-beau-beautiful."
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:46 pm
Iris was sitting on the cushion again by the time Tobi came back into the room. As she started to mix in the cocoa powder, Iris was stopped short by Tobi's remark. Turning her head to see him, Iris' eyes were large with surprise.
"You...think I'm beautiful?" the aeromaster said, puzzled. What it some kind of trick? All her life, she had had it drummed into her head that she wasn't beautiful, pretty, winsom, or even comely. She had been told that she was ugly, horrid, and disgusting to look at.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:52 pm
Tobi nodded a warm smile on his face and he flopped down, "I-I..I-I do. Yo-you are na-named af-after a god-goddess were you-you not? Ho-how ca-can one who-who car-carries the na-name of a go-goddess but any-anything but beau-beautiful?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:00 pm
Iris felt her cheeks suffuse with blood again and become very hot as a large blush mantled her cheeks, which made her look innocent and very beautiful in the firelight. Both embarassed and extremly pleased by Tobi's praise, Iris turned away quickly back to her cocoa and muttered something incoherent.
He...he really thought she was beautiful? Iris was so embarrased that it made her shy, and it took her a few moments to gather back her voice enough to whisper a hurried, "Thank you."
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:16 pm
He gave a little wink, "No n-need to thank me, a-all I did wa-was state the ob-obvious."
He was very happy to see her 'lighten' up, and he wasn't lieing, dear gods, that blush made her looked more like a goddess.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:33 pm
Iris muttered something again, and took a sip of the cocoa. She was too shy now to even look back at Tobi; as it was, it was all she could to try and appear as if she wasn't embarassed out of her mind and shy to the point that she couldn't speak.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:39 pm
He fixed his self a bit of coco and sipped it, staring into the fire, his green eyes sparkling with dots of red behind his thick glasses.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:47 pm
Still with her back facing Tobi, Iris tried to reach that itch again. Unable to reach it, Iris tried scratching directly on the skin to try and get it, and in the process, pulled up the back of her shirt to show a great deal of her scars. Badly healed whip slashes, burn scars, and even a knife wound or two peeked out from under the fabric, and she still couldn't get the itch.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:50 pm
"tut tut.." he waved her hand away and began to mythodically scratch her back, mindful not to scratch to hard, over the pink criss-crosses.
"Better?"
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