Sy
Citizen
Real? Illusion? Deceit.
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Post by Sy on Aug 9, 2012 8:20:11 GMT -5
'Good? That's it? After my earnest apology? My, I await your next syllable to compliment me with great eagerness then, young master...' Sy mused in his thoughts, almost letting it slipped out his lips, but fortunately got a better control of himself before it even escaped his throat. Though, at least when it's the other way around, when he's the one doing the complimenting, it reacts a good reaction out of Muri.
'Oh?' A grin crept up his lips when the girl had turned around. Sy only needed to see if her hands are in fists or not, and as he glanced, it is. 'Don't tell me...' His eyes darted back up to the back of her head, now staring at her dark gray hair, just in time to hear her muttering something. Sy didn't need to understand what exactly does that mean, just by the tone of her voice that he picked up is enough for him to conclude that 'Young master is certainly blushing... My, this is a surprise.'
His grin grew larger as he realizes this, wondering if she's just like any other girl her age when being complimented of being cute. Jotting this information down in his mental note, he effectively dropped his grin into his normal pleasant smile once his young master turned to face him again. As he studies her face, Sy is fighting a growing smirk creeping up his lips before noticing that she uncrossed her arms and pointed a finger towards him.
Sy pulled his upper body back a bit as he blinked at her pointing finger. He blinked once again as he heard what Muri ordered. At that, he smiled at her again, nodded his head and gracefully pulled himself up to his feet. "Of course, Princess." He bowed at her with a smile like how he used to do to his late Lady. "Please follow me."
Sy began to walk, his face slightly turned to see if his new young master is following behind him. Retracing back his steps from when he first entered the horror land, he finally stepped out of the smoky dome. After waiting till Muri is within his sight, he then led the girl straight towards his mother's quaint little house. He paused in front of the door for a moment, before turning back to Muri, "I shall serve you homemade cooking. Are you fine with that?"
Not long after Sy question that, the door suddenly opened. Sy turned back his attention to the door, and smiled, "Hello, mother. I'd like to introduce you to someone." When his mother made way, he already knew what she would say to him as he entered in the house, thus he explained with a brief "I lost a bet." Now reverting his eyes back to Muri, Sy welcomed Muri inside warmly, "Welcome to our modest home. Please make yourself comfortable and try not to blanch by how sickly pleasant it is."
"Princess, this is my mother." He motioned to the woman at his side. Then turning back to his mother, Sy motioned to Muri, "Mother, this is my new young master, Muri."
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Post by NPC: Female on Aug 9, 2012 8:37:18 GMT -5
Elysia knew, when she opened that door, that her son is bringing someone in again. Whenever he goes out and betting his life to a random stranger, this always happens. "Oh, Sylvester.." She sighed when he immediately told her he wanted to introduce her to someone, "Yes, of course you do." Normal kids would bring home stray kittens and dogs, her son brings home strangers.
Stepping aside to make way for her son and his visitor to enter her newly decorated house, Elysia is genuinely surprised to see a young cute girl following Sylvester. She shot her son a tired glare once he mentioned that her house is sickly pleasant. "How rude.. I just decorated the place this afternoon, give me some credit."
Once the introduction started, Elysia smiled to her visitor. Her smile seemed exhausted, but she does nod respectfully to the little girl, "Hello. You can call me Elysia." She does try not to use her husband's last name Fatuus, only because it is pronounced as "fatuous", and she simply dislike that name.
Now once Sylvester introduced her on who this little girl is, the woman can't help but let out an expected tired sigh, "Oh my... Again..? Sylvester, how many times have I told you not to sell your soul to people so easily? Goodness.." Her hand is already massaging the sides of her temples.
Looking at her son yet again, she frowned. "And what happened to your lovely shirt and jacket..? You think I can't see through your mist? Now go upstairs, young man, and dress yourself properly. You have a lady in your house." After ordering Sylvester to go and change, she looked at Muri and immediately apologized.
"I am so sorry for whatever he did. I've already prepared dinner, and we can make room for another plate. Would you like to join us, Muri?" She tried to smile, but she's obviously too tired to even smile properly, so she only managed a small weak one.
The woman then glanced at the wall clock in the room, gasped at how late it is, and suggested, "It's getting late, dear. You can stay for the night, if you want."
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Aug 9, 2012 21:24:04 GMT -5
Muri stood like that with her glare a moment longer as she waited for Sy's reply. She lowered her hand as he stood, keeping her other on her hip and a slight wicked grin formed on her lips as the glare remained when he acknowledged her order and bowed.
Muri watched his back a moment and closed her eyes to take in a deep breath, acknowledging the good feeling of having someone so willingly become her servant. She opened her eyes again in time to meet his backward glance, a small but wicked grin on her face as she followed behind him.
As soon as Muri stepped out of her dome of horrors, the blackness seemed to slowly fade away in a poof of smoke and the illusions within were suddenly gone. As Muri followed Sy, she lifted her small hands and placed them by the roots of her hair. Then, with a quick brush of her fingers, the smoke that had darkened her hair then released and floated away, leaving her hair the beautiful clean silver colour it was before.
When they stopped, Muri realized they were in front of a house and she looked at Sy with a quizzical manner as he explained. A slightly wicked grin grew back on her face again. "So long as it tastes good." She answered, not wanting to eat anything that tasted like refurbished garbage but rather preferred elegance in her food when she could get it that way.
When the door suddenly opened without Sy's hand, Muri looked towards the woman who had opened it with a near expressionless look, but slightly on the defensive towards a new stranger. That is, until Sy greeted her as his mother. As he continued saying he would like to introduce someone, Muri melted the wickedness of her face and pulled out the more cute childish act that she used often to get her way with most people.
Her expression was that of a sweet and happy child who probably loved cute things and she generally appeared like a little angel despite her clothes being a more gothic black against her pale skin and hair. She gracefully stepped inside after Sy, smiling at his mother with her sickly sweet childish smile.
Muri even giggled in a childish manner as Sy remarked on his mother's sickly pleasant decorating. "You have a nice little house, Elysia." She said in a sweet young tone of voice, despite her inner self thinking that the place really was far too sickly pleasant for her tastes. If she were to decorate a place, Muri would have a lot of gothic and horrific things placed and plastered everywhere. The thought of a terrified Hikaru entering such a frightening house caused Muri's sweet smile to seem a bit brighter as she was introduced to Sy's mother.
At Elysia's apparent frustration with Sy, Muri slowly formed a bit of a pout on her face as she told him to dress himself properly. Muri looked to the floor with her childish pout as if she had done something wrong. "I'm sorry, Ms. Elysia... I'm afraid that his shirt being destroyed was my fault, completely by accident I promise..."
She then weakly formed a small smile on her lips again with a hint of the pout still as she slowly lifted her head to look up at her. "I promise to take good care of your son, so please don't worry." She said as the smile took over on her face and her hands clasped together down in front of her, making herself look like an innocent little angel again.
At Elysia's invite to dinner, Muri appeared to perk up a bit more with her smile again. "Yes, I'd love to join you! I'm actually a little hungry myself... and I got kind of lost up here in Gradia, on my own and being my first time in this city." As she mentioned herself being hungry and went on, she began to show a little sheepishness in her smile to make herself seem pitiable as a child who is alone and hungry in the big city.
Muri smiled a bit more again at the offer to stay the night. "Thank you, Ms. Elysia! I would be grateful to stay the night. It would take a long time for me to get back home to my brothers anyway, since they're all the way down in Evnae." She said, slowly turning her head a bit to the side with a bit of a worrisome look adding itself to her smile.
She then smiled reassuringly at Elysia again as she continued. "Don't worry about my brothers though. I tend to disappear from time to time when they think I'm still in my room, so they won't even realize that I'm gone for the night." She lied with a smile. She never really worried about what her siblings might feel towards her disappearing for a day or two.
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Post by NPC: Female on Aug 10, 2012 9:27:12 GMT -5
When she found out that she was pregnant, Elysia was intent on raising the perfect boy. In the end, Sylvester turns out exactly like how she always wished for; polite, kind, helpful and a gentleman. It's too bad that the boy isn't genuinely humane in the first place.
"Why thank you, I just moved back in here today." Elysia responded to Muri's compliment of her house. "I haven't finished refurbishing the house yet, though. So I apologize that it's a little messy.." In her mind, she hoped so hard her son hadn't brought in strangers just for today, but it seems her hope's too high to reach.
When Muri suddenly looked rather guilty after Elysia had ordered her son to change, her heart just sank at how adorable this little girl is. "Oh my, please don't blame yourself. Sylvester has certainly returned home in a worser condition than simply with his shirt missing.." She paused at the memory and sighed in depression.
"Imagine. That reckless boy came home with his whole arm cut off! He didn't know how to use the Blue Plume in restoring bones yet at the time, so he came home bleeding and dismemebered like that, I almost fainted at the sight..!" Elysia is already going pale by just remembering that incident happening in this very house a number of years ago. "I eventually had to teach him how to heal himself fully before he loses his head next time."
She literally wanted to hug Muri for stating that she'll take good care of Sylvester, but instead offered a huge smile since she's still wearing her messy apron from cooking earlier. "I would appreciate that very much, Muri. He's a little strange, but I hope he doesn't slack off in his duties." That son of hers was a butler to a blue blood before, and she certainly hasn't heard any problems from the aristocrats.....other than Sylvester beheading some nobles who betrayed his Lady.
On hearing what Muri has gone through alone here, Elysia gasped while placing a hand over her lips, "Oh, you poor child! Don't tell me you haven't eaten since afternoon..! Come, come, have a seat." The woman gently held Muri by her shoulder and lead her to the dinner table, pulling a chair for Muri to sit on.
While Elysia went off to get an extra plate for her new guest, she shot Muri a surprised look when the little girl told her of her brothers who's probably very worried in Evnae. "Oh my! Are you sure..? We haven't installed any communication lines in the house yet, I'm very sorry I have no way to offer you to contact your brothers.."
As she puts a plate and an empty cup in front of Muri, Elysia bowed a bit. "For the time being, I hope you're comfortable here. I can get Sylvester to accompany you to your brothers tomorrow, Muri." She nodded with a smile, obviously pitying Muri to be alone in Gradia like this. She's even glad that Sylvester found her, Elysia couldn't imagine what would happen to the poor girl if he didn't.
Moving around the dinner table to reach the fridge, Elysia pulled out a jug of lemon juice and filled in the three cups on the table with it. "Please, help yourself. I lost a bet with him, and he wants Italian." On the center of the dinner table is a huge plate with something that looks like pizza. There's also a bowl of vegetables, and a plate of pita chips nearer to Muri.
"Try the pita chips. You can dip it with this white bean dip." Elysia pulled in a small bowl of what seems to be an aromatic white cream nearer to Muri. There's a bit of parsley leaves and dried oregano sprinkled on the cream that makes it look pretty even.
"He has such a picky taste in food, I have to make everything look perfect for him to even eat something..." She sighed while taking a seat in her own chair and smiled to Muri. As she said that, she could hear Sylvester coming down the stairs.
"Here.." Elysia filled his plate with the vegetables she marinated, almost smirking. "I put LOTS of olives for you~ ...Ah ah, EAT." Being a mother, she knows exactly what her son likes and hates. When she knows the latter, she will try her best with all her motherly might to make him like it if its good for him.
Now when Sylvester looks like he's about to deny all her hard work, Elysia is forced to do what she must. "I choose tails!"
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Sy
Citizen
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Post by Sy on Aug 10, 2012 9:37:01 GMT -5
As he was ordered to change upstairs, Sy nodded at his mother obediently before making his way to the stairs and climbed up to his room. It always appalled him how his mother managed to see through his illusion and lies so easily, when she's so gullible usually around others.
As he was going through his luggage and change his clothes, he sneezed all of the sudden. Sniffing a bit, Sy wondered if he's been out too long in the cold air without a shirt on. Quickly slipping in a random white t-shirt and wearing his usual jacket to keep his body warm, he paid a visit to the washroom upstairs just to fix himself in front of the mirror.
He always takes a while when he's sprucing himself with particular care, so by the time he gets down, he knows his mother and Muri had already started eating dinner without him. Thus, he glances what's on the table and turned to his mother with a smile, "Potato and zucchini frittata? Mother, you've outdone yourself. I'm impressed."
Taking a seat beside his mother and facing Muri across the table, he removed his gloves and was just about to slice the frittata when suddenly his plate was filled with vegetables.....and olives. Obviously seeming rather displeased of the existence of the small ovoid fruits on his plate, Sy frowned. "No." He turned to his mother, blatantly refusing to eat any of them.
Though, when his mother literally breached his weak spot by betting with him for him to swallow the disgusting thing, one of his eyebrows twitched. Without a word, he flipped his coin in the air and caught it efficiently, even when he's sitting. Sure enough, it's tails.
He shot his mother an almost pitiable face, in order for her to spare him from the misery of eating olives, but the cruel woman doesn't even seem to be minding his pain as she's now busy smiling in her victory. "......M-mother, have you ever thought that maybe anthromorphs can die by eating this?" He's desperate.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Aug 10, 2012 19:03:13 GMT -5
Muri smiled sweetly and giggled lightly in response to Elysia's apology for the house being messy. "It's alright, Ms. Elysia. I understand." She said with her hands clasped behind herself, smiling up like a little angel.
When Elysia stated that Sy had returned in even worse states before, Muri showed a concerned look as Elysia went on. Muri's eyes shot open wide in shock as Elysia stated one time Sy had returned with his arm cut off. Muri had clearly seen him with both arms and that was not an illusion. "Blue Plume?" Muri questioned innocently as Elysia explained Sy did not yet know then how to use it to heal himself.
She recalled the strange white staff he held earlier when healing himself after Muri's attack as Elysia went on about teaching Sy how to heal himself fully. Muri then smiled sweetly at that, while inwardly grinning wickedly at the thought of treating him as a punching bag that can heal himself. "It's a good thing you taught him to heal himself, then. I'm impressed that both of you are able to do such things. I, myself, have no healing abilities." She said, her sweet smile faltering slightly at the end as if to make herself seem humble and pitiable.
Muri smiled cheerfully at Elysia's response to Muri saying she would take good care of Sy. "Based on what I've seen so far, I'm sure Sy will be wonderful. You raised a perfect gentleman, Ms. Elysia." She said sweetly to Sy's mother, rather amused at how easily his mother seems to be deceived by Muri's sweet little girl act.
Muri allowed herself to be led to the table by Elysia, showing a grateful smile while inwardly very amused at how easy this woman was to fool. "Thank you, Ms. Elysia. I don't have to contact them. When I return, I'm sure they won't even have realized that I was gone." She lied with a smile, showing a slight sadness in her eyes as if to make it seem like her brothers were so unattentive as to not even notice their little sister missing.
Muri thanked Elysia again with her sweet innocent smile as she poured Muri juice and told Muri to help herself. Muri then took a closer look at everything on the table and took in a small breath of air through her nose, taking in the scent from the heat that rose from the food. "Everything looks delicious, Ms. Elysia." Muri said sweetly, with a smile.
Going along with Elysia, Muri picked up a pita chip and dipped it in the white bean dip that was pushed towards her. She slowly took a bite and smiled at Elysia again after she swallowed. "It tastes really good, Ms. Elysia." Muri then giggled at Elysia's comment of having to make everything look good for Sy to even eat. She thought to herself the similarity, since she herself often refused food that did not appeal to all of her senses and would frequently demand Pika to remake the food for her only better.
Muri watched Elysia put the vegetables on Sy's plate, thinking they looked good as Muri actually really likes vegetables. Elysia's sudden outcry of choosing tails shocked Muri's smile off her face and caused her arm to pause that was just about to reach for the vegetables for herself. Muri looked over to Sy with her slightly surprised face as he then pulled out a coin and flipped it. His expression made it obvious that Elysia had one and, at this, Muri smiled again and giggled silently as she reached for the vegetables and placed a healthy portion on her plate.
As she finished dishing her vegetables and placed the serving spoon back in the vegetable bowl, Muri giggled a bit at Sy's question and smiled at him with the sweetly innocent smile she had been showing Elysia all this time. "I've never heard of anyone dying from eating vegetables." She said to him then picked up a piece of the marinated broccoli and ate it.
She chewed with her eyes closed a moment then smiled at Elysia again as she finished. "This tastes excellent, Ms. Elysia." She said in her sweet childish manner, her words actually being honest this time. "If only my brothers could cook as well as you can." She added with a smile, amused by her little additional statement that would make Sy's mother favour her even more.
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Post by NPC: Female on Aug 11, 2012 22:39:57 GMT -5
Despite her tiredness of moving in today and having a guest in such short notice, Elysia is practically sparkling as she held her own hands together in front of her chest and smiling so pleasantly at Muri's behavior. "You're the sweetest angel who had ever graced this household.."
She was liking Muri more and more as the sweet angel commented of her cooking. "I'm so glad you like them, dear. I would've cooked something more and prepare a better feast if I knew you would come over." Being a person who highly respect acts of politeness and table manners, Elysia appreciates Muri's existence across the table than the unappreciative son currently sitting beside her.
"I've passed down most of my recipes to Sylvester here, don't you worry. He'll be a wonderful cook to you, at least. That's the only skill I have confidence in him to impress you." She smiled kindly to Muri, genuinely wishing her son will take care of this child to the best of his abilities. She had taught him enough of manners and the art of being a perfect gentleman, but not about humanity itself. She tried to, but most of her efforts regarding that very lineament is in vain, due to her son being unable to understand the benfit behind being a human.
Completely ignoring her son complaining that vegetables might kill him, Elysia seemed to only look and respond to Muri the entire time. Nodding vigorously of the little girl's statement of anyone dying from vegetables, she then finally turns to her son, but only to give him the fact that she's not on his side in this. "Now you better take examples from dear sweet Muri here. The angel had only been saying good things about you and my food; she was impressed with our healing abilities, and how much of a gentleman you are, and she clearly enjoyed my cooking while letting me know she appreciates my hard work."
A mother is a scary being. They crave for acknowledgement for all their hard work almost consistently, and when someone finally appreciates them, a mother will surely stand on their side. Elysia is the perfect example of a typical human mother in that category.
Her hand automatically touched her lips as she heard Muri spoke of how her brothers seeming to ignore her existence and how they aren't good cooks. "Aaww, you poor child... I'm so sorry that I'm unable to do anything of your relationship with your brothers, but don't you worry." She raised her other hand near Sylvester to give him a strong pat on his shoulder. "Sylvester will try his best to take care of you and your meals. Not just because he binded his soul to you, but because it's in my order as well."
Turning her head sideways to meet her son's gaze, Elysia smiled sweetly at him. A smile of threat that if he ever crosses this child and fail, then his mother will not tolerate this. Now, when she realizes that Sylvester haven't even touched his vegetables, Elysia sighed.
"Oh, you picky eater. Fine, just put them all on your piece of frittata so the flavor of the vegetables wouldn't kill you. Goodness..." She shook her head and glanced at her potato and zucchini frittata. "Oh, my! I forgot to cut it. Sylvester, why don't you get my knife on the counter there?"
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Aug 11, 2012 22:42:16 GMT -5
Sy is not amused. He cannot believe this. Muri and his mother are chatting pleasantly when he knows full well that his young master is clearly deceiving his mother. Taking a silent deep breath, he forbid himself from showing any outward discontent in order not to let Muri to take advantage of his vulnerability due to his mother being so painfully gullible.
Sy wears a straight face through everything his mother had said about him, staring to the blank space in front of him like there's nothing more interesting than watching small particles lingering in the air. He almost rolled his eyes when his mother listed of the things from Muri he needed to take example of.
Though, on the topic of her brothers, Sy looked directly at Muri, clearly intrigued of the topic. He can tell when a person lies or not, and based on what she said about her brothers is somewhat of a lie yet it's the truth also in a way. Thus, Sy concluded in his mind that perhaps the truth is she does have brothers, and the lie being of how they seem to ignore her.
When his mother began beaming him that specific dangerous smile to her, Sy's eyebrows creased in discontent. But he forced himself to speak anyway, "Of course, mother. I only wish to serve her excellently." He said the last few words through his gritted teeth, then cornered his eyes to give a short glare at Muri for going this far in gaining his mother's acceptance.
He had lost his appetite through everything, but his mother being his mother, had successfully picked it back up with the great idea of eating his vegetables and those disgusting olives with the frittata. Thus, when he was ordered to get the knife, Sy immediately stood up.
"No need to burden yourself, mother. Please allow me to handle this." His eyes shone dangerously despite his pleasant smile as his staff materializes from thin air in his grip. He stood back slightly to gain more space, and spun the staff around, so the hexagonal peak is downwards.
He had spun the staff so quickly, that by the time the butt of the staff is upwards, a sharp curved blade appeared with a zing out of the staff. Sy is now wielding a highly dangerous white scythe in his mother's kitchen.
Stepping nearer to the dinner table, his hand nimbly moved in such a quick and precise manner with the scythe that he cuts the frittata perfectly in the form of slices just like a pizza. He is actually using his freaking scythe to cut the food. Then, as he flicked his scythe, he purposely allowed a small speck of the omelette to hit Muri on her cheek.
Before his mother would scream at him, Sy immediately apologized, "Oh! Young master! I wasn't normally this clumsy.. Allow me to clean that off for you." He was careful with his words to not allow his mother to detect that he's lying, thus is why he didn't apologize because he's certainly not sorry.
With his staff now gone and pulling a tissue out of his pocket, he went beside Muri to clean the piece off her face. "Young master, please do not cause me annoyance of your deceit any longer." He whispered lowly to Muri, and as he has his face not facing his mother, he's sure the woman can't see or hear him speaking to Muri.
"I might not be able to take this embarrassment the longer you pull this out." His voice sounds almost like he's begging, but his eyes still held that grave shine of seriousness to almost seem deadly.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Aug 12, 2012 10:58:12 GMT -5
Muri smiled sweetly in her childish manner as Elysia complimented her on being the sweetest angel to have been in her home. At Elysia's comment on preparing a feast had she known, Muri said "You don't have to fuss over me that much, Ms. Elysia. What you've already made is very good."
When Elysia spoke about being confident in Sy's cooking abilities, Muri smiled over at Sy, a slight flicker of amusement flashing through her eyes. She then looked back at Elysia again. "I am very glad, you must have taught him well." She said with a smile, rather amused by the entire exchange with his mother since she had entered their house.
When Elysia turned to Sy to tell him to take Muri's example and expressing all the nice things Muri had said to Elysia, Muri followed her glance over at Sy. For a moment, while Elysia's eyes were not on her, Muri's smile flashed a wicked glint at Sy, returning to her sweet and innocent smile as Elysia looked back at her again.
When Elysia showed pity towards Muri's remark of her brothers and ensured Sy would take care of her, Muri's innocent smile shown bright at Elysia. "I'm sure he will." She replied in a gentle childish tone, outwardly showing an expression of thankfulness and a hint of kindness while inwardly musing at how she might use her new servant. Muri noticed Sy's glare and smiled amusingly back at him, obviously finding his annoyance towards her to be amusing. This, to Muri, was payback.
As Sy stood to cut the frittata, Muri watched him with a smile on her face. She noticed the look in his eyes and her smile only fell slightly to show a faint surprised look as she saw that familiar staff appear in his hands from before. She questioned in her mind what such a thing could do to cut the frittata when her question was answered as a scythe blade appeared when he spun the staff around.
Muri's eyes opened a bit more in surprise but then she smiled again at Sy anyway as she was amused by his surprises now. Certain that his mother would stop him if she considered this to be dangerous, Muri simply sat there and smiled as she watched Sy cut the frittata with such a weapon. She considered the flair of it to be a little overdramatic for that action but then again Muri did frequently enjoy overdramatic theatrics.
Suddenly gaining a piece of omlette on her cheek, Muri's Smile fell and she clenched her fists that were hidden by the table. She was inwardly fuming at Sy since she knew he had done that on purpose as he began saying he would clean it off. She forced the smile on her face though around her eyebrows was a bit tense in annoyance at this action of his.
Hearing Sy whispering quietly to her, calling her out on her deceit and asking her not to annoy him anymore with his, Muri forced the sweet smile back on her face. He had already cleaned her cheek off, which made her feel a little better about that forced smile. When he noted that her deceit was embarrassing him, she smiled a little more as a wicked glint crossed her eyes for Sy to see.
"Thank you, Sy, but please make sure not to spill things on me again." She said out loud in a sweet young voice since Elysia would be able to see that she was talking to him anyway. There was no way for her to otherwise speak to him at this moment, so she hoped her message was sent to him properly that she had no intention of dropping her act and that she would certainly threaten him back with confidence should he act against her. Muri was amused at the look in Sy's eyes, not feeling very threatened by a low level illusionist who had only just survived her attack before because it was an incredibly low level smoke attack, she concluded. She did not consider this person to be very much of a threat at all, nor did she consider that of hardly anyone.
"Now, please take your seat again and eat the delicious food your mother has made, including the vegetables." She said with a sweet smile still, the smile shining a bit brighter as she knew he couldn't disobey something she said in front of his mother. That already seemed fairly obvious.
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Post by NPC: Female on Aug 23, 2012 14:37:09 GMT -5
The new guest is a sweet young lady, of course Elysia is happy beyond explanation. She only had men and boys to live with through her life, so just having Muri visiting by delights the woman immensely. "I'm just very happy that you joined us for dinner, dear. Please do visit often, I enjoy your company very much." Elysia smiled at the young girl, the lines are apparent on her face that she's getting old.
She's also very appreciative to how Muri responds to everything she says with such politeness and respect, it made her feel rather sad inside that she's just not used to people behaving this way to her. At this, Elysia's smile faltered a bit as she turned to look at her son. That is when she decided to distract herself by getting him to get her knife for her so she can cut the frittata.
Sylvester has another method to reach that same goal though.
"SYLVESTER!! I thought we've discussed not to bring weapons inside the house...!!" Elysia screamed. She was honestly appalled when she realized that the Blue Plume's second form when in her son's possession is a scythe. He even sliced the grandfather clock that once stood proudly in the living room. "Honestly.. Why can't it turn into a hammer like your grandmother's psyche....or a lance, like mine.." Holding her head as she muttered that out, Elysia understands that her son's strange behavior and psyche is not really explainable, so she just stayed there on her seat and get her own portion of the vegetables served inside her plate with a sigh.
"I'm so sorry, Muri. He's always so strange--" While she turned to speak to Muri while Sylvester is busy slicing the frittata, it surprised her to see a piece of her dinner slapped onto Muri's face. Clearly horrified and embarrassed, Elysia quickly turned to her son and about to scream at him, when he suddenly apologized and went straight to the guest in order to clean the poor girl's face.
With a clear expression of worry, Elysia looked at Muri rather apologetically as Sylvester is busy cleaning her face. "I'm so very sorry.." She exclaimed with a nod to replace a bow to Muri and watches as her son wipes the omelette off her face. Missed to see the conversation they both had, Elysia could only frown at the two of them. "I wish this won't happen again, Sylvester." Sporting a sharper tone, Elysia glared towards her son.
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Sy
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Post by Sy on Aug 23, 2012 15:52:50 GMT -5
Sy's normal pleasant smile that was usually stuck on his face had completely disappeared. He noticed all her glares and wicked grins that his mother seemed to have missed, but since it was all directed towards him, it was understandable. ...For the most part.
"You're enjoying this, aren't you.." He whispered to her before he stood to his full height, finished with cleaning her face and now glaring darkly down towards her. "I hope you enjoyed your whole stay here, then. Despite my clumsiness." And within a moment, completely masking that malicious glower by a smile that he had mastered in containing his inner spite. He spoke normally again, so his mother could probably hear him.
There will be accidents, his eyes signaled her. Many harmful accidents.
"As you command, princess.." he nodded at her order and held his eyes a bit longer on her before finally breaking it to return to his own seat. He doesn't react to the glare his mother is giving him with, as he just faces his plate silently, pulls in a slice of frittata and places it on his plate.
Sy then took his time decorating his frittata with the vegetables and took a bite without a word of complaint. The whole time as he was chewing, he did not take even a glance at Muri or his mother as his attention is directly towards his food and his food alone.
"By the way..." he suddenly said, only now lifting up his eyes to face the young oppressor of doom, gaining back that threatening glint, but quickly raising up a smile. "My mother has been wondering, how old are you, princess?" He maintained a polite tone as he asked, then turning to his mother beside him with that same smile, noticing how her eyes lit up by curiosity too.
"You don't need to thank me, mother." He's certain that his mother would like to know of this information too. So why not pull a bit of facts from this mysterious little girl who plays with dead things at the park.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Aug 23, 2012 16:59:10 GMT -5
Muri smiled sweetly at Elysia still as the offer to visit often was handed to her. "I am also very happy that I had the opportunity to join you here. I'll be sure to come again, of course." She said sweetly as she smiled at Elysia, still thoroughly amused by everything. Muri thought in the back of her mind as she noticed the lines of Elysia's face what a contrast her own childish skin was. The fact that Muri is likely to maintain young and beautiful skin for a lot longer than this woman was at least one consolation she felt towards being in a body that appeared much younger than she actually was.
Muri simply watched Sy with a smile as he was using such an overdramatic weapon to cut the frittata, much to Elysia's dismay of him pulling out his weapon in the house. She found it somewhat amusing regardless of how inappropriate using that sort of equipment on such a small task was. Her intrigued smile then formed as she looked at Elysia again going on about the shapes that weapon side could take. The fact that Sy's weapon form was a scythe only made Muri more amused and interested in her new wicked servant.
Muri smiled sweetly at Sy as he cleaned her cheek, only because Elysia was watching, although there was a flicker of wickedness that flashed through her eyes at him. She was incredibly amused by Sy's glare that he was showing her. Her smile tweaking up a bit more as he asked if she was enjoying this was an indication that he was right on the mark. After his next comment, she said "Of course." With a fake sweet smile, hiding her inner malice and wicked enjoyment that she felt towards this night.
Muri almost wanted to glare at Sy, certain from that look that he intended to make more 'accidents' occur. These, she would begin to look out for from here on out. She started to plot ways of countering such actions of his once they were out of Elysia's sight so that he could be punished without revealing her wicked side to Elysia.
She smiled still with a wicked glint at Sy as he went back to his seat, then smiled very sweetly towards Elysia again. She then decided to respond to the apology that Elysia had offered her in Sy's place before. "Please don't be too mad at Sy for that, Ms. Elysia. I'm sure he's just feeling a little off tonight and it will pass." She said, choosing her words so that it might sound like she accepted his challenging look and was prepared for whatever he might attempt until he gives up.
After that, Muri went back to eating the food in front of her, rather honestly enjoying the vegetables in particular. That is, until Sy spoke up again. She was about to pick up another vegetable when Sy's voice caused her to pause and she placed it back down, glancing over at him. She was amused to catch that glint in his eyes again and was happy to match it with her own wicked glint behind her youthful smile.
Muri's eyebrows raised ever so slightly at Sy's question but a smile remained on her face. Inside, she felt a little annoyed about this question all the time, whenever it was asked of her. She then turned to Elysia with a smile. "Is that so, Ms. Elysia?" She asked sweetly, then continued.
"Well, I would actually be quite interested to know what age you think I am, Ms. Elysia. After all, I find it rather interesting, the variety of ages people tend to guess." She said smiling even a little sweeter at Elysia, masking both amusement and annoyance. "If you don't mind indulging me, would you be willing to offer up a guess as to how old I am?"
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Post by NPC: Female on Aug 26, 2012 13:16:45 GMT -5
Elysia cannot believe Sylvester could even mess up dinner. He has excellent table manners and never once made mistakes, especially during dinner. So the woman cornered her eyes to her son as he took a seat beside her, now suspecting something.
She quickly whipped her attention to Muri though once the young girl said that Sylvester might not be feeling well. "You think so?" She asked back before facing Sylvester again.
Without a single warning, Elysia immediately slapped a palm on Sy's forehead to see if he's really unwell. Her eyes widened and then quickly pulled her palm away, "Goodness Sylvester.. Serves you right for walking around without a shirt on out in the night..."
Standing up from her chair, she went to a cabinet and fetched something before returning to the dinner table, placing a sort of medicine next to her son's glass of lemonade. "Eat this after dinner. After a good night's sleep, you'll feel better soon."
Sitting back down in her seat, Elysia continued on putting some vegetables on her plate before starting to eat. Sylvester doesn't fare well with the cold, she knows this. Since the Blue Plume is unable to cure natural diseases, it's up to her as a mother to take care of her son when he's been hit with a flu or such.
Just as she thought the silence is peaceful enough for them all to enjoy dinner, Sylvester suddenly came up with a rather interesting question. Elysia blinked at her son, and then looked over at Muri. "Well...now that Sylvester mentioned it, I do feel slightly curious, dear."
At Muri's offer for her to guess how old she is, Elysia puts her fork down and stares at her gues for a while. "Hmmm... By face alone, I would guess younger, but you're worlds more polite than most people I know, and you're so mature too despite your youthful face..."
Touching her chin in a thoughful manner, Elysia then smiled. "I would guess perhaps around 15 or 16 years old."
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Sy
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Real? Illusion? Deceit.
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Post by Sy on Aug 26, 2012 13:20:03 GMT -5
The only way to tell that Sy is actually affected by Muri's simple answer is by the twicth of one of his eyebrows. How did his mother described this girl to be 'sweet' is beyond his comprehension, Sy can see the cracks of her smile that stretched into that evil grin of hers, and that wicked glint in her eyes are light neon lights to him.
He can tell through her hints that she's practically asking him to bring it on.
What his mother did once he had sat down surprised him that his eyes widened. "M-mothe--" Before he could even explain, she was up to find him a medicine. "I hope you're happy." With his mother's back turned against them, Sy mouthed the words towards Muri with a light glare.
His eyes darted towards the medicine his mother gave him and them turned to the woman sitting beside him after she had returned. He was just about to speak that she shouldn't worry about him when he felt an itch in his throat. So Sy clears his throat, wondering if that sneeze earlier is his body being weak again.
After he had questioned Muri of her age, and her mother responding to her of her assumption of Muri's age, Sy blinked once and slowly turned to look at his mother in utter surprise. He never would have guessed she would judge Muri that old, since he himself thought the girl is just a shy away from 13.
Curious of her answer, Sy darted his attention to Muri now in time to hear her answer.
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Muri
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Darkness is my home; smoke, smog, mist... They're my best friends.
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Post by Muri on Aug 27, 2012 18:06:11 GMT -5
In response to Elysia asking if Muri thought Sy wasn't feeling well, she simply gave a small nod. She then watched with her eyebrows raised a bit as Elysia felt Sy's forehead then went to get him medicine and told him to take some after dinner. Muri's smile slowly lifted through that event occurring in front of her, amused that her little comment also now has forced Sy to have to take medicine for it. As Sy mouths those words at her, Muri revealed an even more wicked grin at him before reverting back to the sweet one as Elysia turned back around to them with the medicine for Sy.
After asking Elysia to guess what Muri's age is, Muri simply smiled sweetly at the woman as she studied Muri's appearance. Muri had gotten answers as young as six before and only as old and twelve or thirteen more recently. No one had ever guess older than that yet. So, when Elysia offered up the guess of fifteen or sixteen, Muri was genuinely surprised and a little impressed by the reasoning that brought her to that guess.
Her eyes opened a bit wider and her smile grew slightly more. "Wow, Ms. Elysia! You're the first person to ever guess my age correctly!" She said with a more genuine bright smile, rather amused by the fact that someone had actually managed to guess her correct age. "I am, indeed, sixteen. I'm impressed. I've received answers as low as six and only as high as around twelve or thirteen before." She said with a slight giggle as she recalled the stupid fools who were so deceived by her young appearance and she had easily taken advantage of them due to that. The fact that Elysia already thought of her as being her real age meant that it wasn't just how young Muri looked that made her an easy target but simply her fake manners alone. Muri made a mental note of that.
"Speaking of ages, Ms. Elysia..." Muri began, smiling at her then glanced over at Sy, her smile looking just slightly more wicked whenever she turned towards him. She then faced Elysia with her sweet smile again to continue. "How old is Sy?" She asked Elysia instead of Sy because she could tell already that his mother was more likely to give her a direct and clear answer than Sy himself.
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