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Post by Spiffy on Jun 25, 2011 15:25:14 GMT -5
Kailin was at first confused by the Jazz Hands egg. The projected disappointment initially surprised hr and she nearly withdrew her hand, disheartened, but then the teasing happiness, threw her off kilter and she stayed her hand.
Ha, it was worried about Hero? Well hero would do to be a little more friendly if it were to make any friends. She glanced back at the egg, seeing Jadore with her hand on it. Pfft, curiosity killed the cat. She turned her mind back to the egg at hand. Yes, it was a cheery little thing, but... slightly disturbing in its own right. There was something else there, a sense of all is not as it seems, as if this little egg was hiding something.
Uncertainly she withdrew her hand, fingers curling up unconsciously. Then she turned, seeking out another egg which she had not yet touched. There were few left now.
She tried the Call to Action Egg. She didn't think she'd touched that one yet.
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Post by Evadne on Jun 25, 2011 20:12:01 GMT -5
Jadore reeled. No matter the composure she prided herself on, the way she was able to maintain a smile in front of Lords and criminals alike, the force of the Hero's Call Egg's anger caused the woman to sway on her face. The color that she'd gained from turns spent laboring in the sun left her face, leaving her skin chalky and grey.
In the wake of the blood leaving her head, anger poured in. Not a matching anger but certainly formidable enough to keep her on its feet.
By that time, the foreign fury had ebbed but she ignored that fact. Staring down at the egg, she narrowed her eyes and directed a tight beam of icy disapproval back at the creature inside. It was a look that had made courtiers quail before and she wielded it like a surgeon's scalpel, slashing at that confusion, trying to hasten the retreat with a ruling lady's imperious disdain. Fine? Fine? It was not fine.
Then she broke the connection before it could retaliate, pulling her hand away and turning her back on the egg. Control must be kept but it was a fine and delicate thing. Better she withdraw while she still held the upper hand. One more, she thought. One more and then she would withdraw to ponder what all of these communications meant.
The Lurking Stare Egg caught her roving eye. Jadore walked to it. The pretense of carrying earth to the eggs had been discarded. This time she didn't bother, simply studied the pale-streaked shell before flattening her hand against it.
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Post by lithle on Jun 25, 2011 21:29:57 GMT -5
For Kailin:
Touching the Call to Action Egg is a bit like drinking an extremely potent energy drink, drive sizzling through the contact and bubbling under Kailin's skin. Yet it's fairly clearly that, for whatever reason, this egg doesn't like her much. It wants her to go and do! And it doesn't want her here, touching it.
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Post by nozomi on Jun 25, 2011 22:29:56 GMT -5
For Jadore:
Jadore is no more safe from Lurking Stare's Egg then she would be from a tan after walking in bright sunlight. If the egg disapproves of most everything else, it all but sulks in Jadore's direction. If she was going to try to do something, why isn't she doing it for them all? What a lazybones. Go do something useful! Keep the eggs warm, or the shells hard, or something that didn't require such a useless bit from touching this egg.
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Post by Spiffy on Jun 27, 2011 14:05:36 GMT -5
Kailin shivered unconsciously as the bubbling energy from the egg ran up her arm and up the back of her neck, tickling almost. She held back a giggle, which quickly turned to a frown of mild indignation. She leaned back from the egg, though her hand was still laid firmly on the shell.
"What would you have me do then, egg," she muttered, "exercise? Hunt something? Build another net? Cure firehead? What?"
She snorted, taking her hand off of the shell. Fat lot of luck she was having with this lot of eggs. Most of them outright disliked her. Except what, the Holland's Pride egg, which seemed rather mire relieved that she existed amongst the insanity than any potential like of her as a rider. Golden starburst had sympathised but not exactly liked. Widow's Veil had cowered. That was about it. Maybe Jazz Hands hadn't been all that bad.
Ah well, there were still a few more left. Maybe she would have more luck with those. Shrugging, she went over to the pale Whirlwind Romance Egg, recognising it as the one Bella had stolen.
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Post by nozomi on Jun 27, 2011 17:57:35 GMT -5
For Kailin:
Cheerful greetings rise up from the Whirlwind Romance Egg for Kailin. She isn't overly crazy, after all, and it guesses that's okay. Other then that, the egg has no strong feelings to her one way or the other. That's good, isn't it?
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Post by Spiffy on Jun 28, 2011 8:04:45 GMT -5
Oh, a happy egg! Maybe this clutch wasn't as bad as she'd been thinking. But... still no feelings for her either way. That was... mildly disappointing, if she lied to herself. If she didn't, well, it was a little more than mild.
Sighing, she gave the egg a gentle pat and stood, looking around for any remaining eggs that she hadn't yet touched, bag of dirt now forgotten.
She spied the Fresh Perspective Egg in the distance and made her way over to that. The dull coloured thing seemed to be hiding amongst it's fellows, leaning on close behind a couple of them even though it was bigger than most. She knelt down next to it, fingers tracing what may have been a face in the patterns of brown and tan.
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Post by lithle on Jun 28, 2011 12:34:09 GMT -5
For Kailin:
Oh, another one! Will Kailin tell the Fresh Perspective Egg where it is? Please? The egg is clearly trying to rein in its curiosity and not invade her mind quite so aggressively as it did the last who touched it. But it wants to know! This isn't where it was, and it's curious.
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Post by Evadne on Jun 28, 2011 15:27:22 GMT -5
And that was about all of the abuse Jadore felt like taking today. Obviously true leadership ability and a keen fashion sense were not appreciated around here. She yanked her hand away from the egg and straightened up, schooling her expression into something cool and distantly amused. Delegation, darling, she thought, delegation is the key.
Having gained the final word yet again, she pivoted on one heel and padded from the cavern. All of this humidity was wreaking havoc on her complexion and she had half a mind to go see a man about fashioning a hammer...
Or a very large club. A girl had to look out for herself, after all. Right?
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Post by Spiffy on Jun 28, 2011 16:53:49 GMT -5
Kailin looked up to see Jadore leaving. Shrugging, she turned her attention back to the egg to be met with glee. Oh yes this egg was happy to see her! Finally. She laughed quietly, the egg's enthusiasm catching, stroking its shell happily.
"Well, little egg, you're in a cave. You're surrounded by dirt, mist and water, and psychopaths," she said quietly, turning her head to see that the remaining psychopath hadn't heard. Then she sighed. "And an innocent little life such as you shouldn't be here with them, much less Impress one of them."
She gave the curious little egg a final affectionate pat before standing again. Yes, she liked that egg. At least there was one of them in the clutch which she wouldn't mind choosing her. She turned next to a spotty egg, the Infant's Kiss egg, thinking that she had only one more left to touch after this and then she would go. Yeah. She lay her hand on its shell curiously.
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Post by nozomi on Jun 30, 2011 20:15:28 GMT -5
For Kailin:
The Infant's Kiss Egg seems to shiver under her touch, and then something small and fragile brushes against her mind. It is hopeful, a small sliver of bright almost-belief that things would be alright. Kailin would help. Wouldn't she?
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Post by Spiffy on Jul 1, 2011 9:57:10 GMT -5
Kailin had unconsciously been preparing herself for another mental onslaught, but the touch from this next egg was so gentle it almost took her by surprise. It did, however, remind her of the Widow's Veil egg with it's hesitation. Small, as the egg suggested, and fragile by the feel of it. But unlike the other, this one had a positive, hopeful vibe behind the shiver that brought a smile to her face. Then she frowned. "Help?" she asked quietly. "Help with what, little one?" Getting no clearer an answer, and assuming the egg somehow means the rest of the cutch in the hands of the psychopaths, she shook her head and stood up, making her way over to the last egg, the River Blue.(( Last egg, I promise  ) |
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Post by nozomi on Jul 2, 2011 17:11:37 GMT -5
For Kailin:
River Blue is okay with this! It does not mind the fact that Kailin is all feeling up on it. It's still a bit confused as to all the groping, though, and the warm dirt rather then sand, but that's not Kailin's fault. Really! No worries at all. It's a nice egg, at least.
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Post by Spiffy on Jul 3, 2011 10:21:22 GMT -5
The slightly bemused reaction of the last egg made Kailin giggle. What a thing groping an egg. She'd never thought that the eggs may take it quite that way, but here she was, an egg convince that it was being touched up. She couldn't help but laugh at that.
With that done she withdrew her hand, knowing that she'd touched them all now and not having any particular draw to go back to any of them, giving anyone who would bother to look up a parting wave as she made her way out of the hot springs. She'd have her bath later perhaps, when all these people had buggered off.
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