LSODM is over 133,000 words right now and I promised my editor I'd have a reasonably finished first draft to him by the end of the week. That means no Twitter and no blogging, and very little internet presence at all. Even a half hour of writing a blog is a half hour of NOT writing the book, and I can't afford to do that right now. When the book is done, when it's finally done, business as usual will be resumed. Until then, this temporary silence continues.
And here's a fantastic picture for nerds.
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*kicks at the swing, grumbling* SWING DAMMIT! THIS ISN'T FAIR I'M NOT THAT SHORT
YES! *eats*
yummmyyyyyyyy
THANKY FABIIII *tacklehugs*
Okay maybe Coco isnt past stabbing me...*nods* Bad Zaffy bad!
[hugs Jubi back]
[pulls out more cheese and eats it while Jubi is diverted]
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*takes out sewing kit and sews Coco bear's eye on* there now Alexis wont be sad her Coco bear got hurt
*sits, harrumphing* I'm too short. *sits in a cloud of despair*
Javier: short? Pity. I pity the short in the world. I pity Olivia she's so tiny
You can't be shorter than me Adra
I'M THE MINIEST OUT OF ALL MY FRIENDS
but my friends are kinda tall so..
*glares at Javier* I'll get you, boy.
I'm shorter than my little sister?
Um... I'm not that short, though.
Except at family reunions.
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((Adra is 5'5" but irl I'm 5'9.5". MUAHA))
Javier: *pats Adra's head* you do that (think Javier's 5'7)
*smacks his hand away* you're not that much taller than me
I'm 5'3"
Jubiiiiiii *hugs*
I'm 5'9! Also, sorry for poofing!
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Javier: I still pity short people. Zaf's taller then you as well
*looks up* shush im thinking how to give Alexis Coco bear
*hugs back* My friends use my shoulders as arm rests xP
Ari I will love you more then ever if you persuade Niccolo to hug me. Once. I will freakin bring you chocolate
((I am a different height depending on who is estimating, and I haven't been measured in a while. I'm around the same height as you irl, though, Adra.))
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BUT I'M TALLER THAN MY MOM!!!
by one inch...
BUT STILL
I can't make him do things, Zaf. Sorry...
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Katie don't cry I know
You're trying your hardest
But the hardest part is letting go
Of the nights we shared
Ocala is calling
And you know it's haunting
But compared
To your eyes
Nothing shines
Quite as bright
And when we look to the sky
It's not mine
But I want it so...
Lets not pretend like you're alone tonight
I know he's there and
You're probably hanging out and making eyes
While across the room he stares
I bet he gets the nerve to walk the floor and to asks my girl to dance
And she'll say yes...
And I can live without you but
Without you I'll be miserable at best
You're everything I hoped to find
In every single way
And the headrest part of living is just
Taking breaths to stay
I know I'm good for something,
I just haven't found it yet...
But I need it
Coz I can live without you but
Without you I'll be miserable at-
Yeah I can live without you but
Without you I'll be miserable at best...
[hugs Jubi]
You're taller than Alana's mom, too. And both my grandmothers.
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Jubi :3 *ruffles her hair*
*glares at Javier*
Javier: *goes by treehouse and falls asleep tired*
He has been up all night with Alexis no wonder he fell asleep
Death! *hugs tightly and buries face in shoulder* I'm leaving for a week and I'm going to miss you so much...
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Hmm. *hops off the swing set* I'm getting a drink.
*goes to the tree house, putting on gloves*
*grins wickedly*
*comes back ten minutes later. Completely clean and with a wine glass*
Can you ask him nicely? Like...I dunno offer him a dance...bleh never mind Niccolo never will hug me back
Alexis: COCO IS HERE?! *coughs and tries to get up*
*waves* hello Rose
I'll miss you too Ari... But technically, I've left so... *Smiles sadly*
[hugs Death]
I'm starting to feel a bit...weird. Like poetry is flowing in one ear and out the other. Wbd, seeing if I can write any of it down.
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Javier: *wakes and comes back* Ah crap fell asleep
*clears her throat* *laughs at Javier and hides*
Javier: WHAT IS SO GOD DAMN FUNNY?!
*goes by Alexis and tries to calm her* hey shh dont move Niccolo tried to help you you know he'd tell you to stay put *gives her Coco bear*
Alexis: Coco! *hugs the near tighty*
but grandmas are tiny coz they're all old and stuff :P
DEATHYYYY!!!!!!!! *Supermegatacklehugsofdoom*
HAAIII
*howls in laughter, then has to move to a new hiding spot* I'm glad I threw it away..
Javier: whatever *sits against tree*
Alexis: Momma is still hurts but not as bad
*sits by* I know Alexis I know. Maybe by the time Niccolo comes back you'll be walking. *runs hand through her hair*
Peeks out, and tosses the pink hair dye and empty bottle of hair gel at him before screaming and running away*
Javier: ADRA!!!!! *focuses on Adra* I AM SO GOING TO KILL YOU YOU PISSED OFF AN ASSASSIN!!!! AND NICCOLO AINT HERE TO REVIVE OR HEAL YOU!!!
Oh. My. Gosh.
I started this book thinking it'd be good, and then it started to bore me. And then BOOM.
And just when you think that's all done, BOOM.
And then BOOOOM!
And then it concludes.
I'm still trying to decide if it's a good book, or if I hate it.
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[Throws cheese at the back of Javier's head]
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Javier: *focuses on Fabi instead*
As so it usually happens that way, Fabi.
*falls down in giggles, sprinting as fast as she can* OUT OF RAAAAAANNNGEEEE
Javier: *chases after Adra and once she's in range focuses on her*
[Spins in a circle, arms flailing, face contorted in a mix of anger, hurt, pain...]
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Wait, what do you mean you've left? As in, Blogland? Permananetely?
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*watches* to use my mental link or not? Nah. Niccolo isnt even on to heal her I am sooooo watching this
*pulls out a megaphone from on top of a cliff* I am sorry, the caller is not available right now. A the tone, please record your message.
*pulls out an air horn, plating it into the megaphone then dropping both, running*
((Oh, by the way, that's very subtle of you))
I don't know, Adra. Generally I don't get bored first. And I was thinking of setting the book down altogether, actually. But seriously, the plot twists were just whoa. I just don't know about the rest of the book.
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*sprints after Javier, growling softly*
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You might as well. The things that we have the least hope for usually surprise is in the end ;D
Javier: *turns to see Aretha and lets her run at him dagger raised* come here see what happens!
*hops from a tree, blaring the air horn in Javier's ear*
YOUR HAIR IS PIIIINNNKKKK
Yeah... Like.. Permenantly... I'm not even here now... I'm just a recording...
Javier: *stabs Adra in stomach*
*keeps running straight into him, letting the dagger dig into self, scratches over his eyes with fingernails with one hand, digs fingernails into his shoulder with another hand, knees his groin, and screams loudly directly into his ear*
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Why are you leaving?
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You'll always have a place here...
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*looks at the knife* Well that's interesting. *her knees buckle*
Rose- I don't know what to say.
*points to Fabi's comment* I hope you know I don't intend to just let you leave.
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Javier: *cries out staggering and tries to get her off* I CANT BLOODY SEE!!! *voice comes higher* Niccolo's gonna kill me
*voice is raspy and growly* No, I'm going to kill you. *keeps clinging to his shoulder and presses one arm against his neck, holding him in place, and continues to knee him, driving him backwards*
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[Melts the knife out of Adra as painlessly as possible]
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*staggers over, punching him hard in the face*
Javier: *growls using own body strength to keep her from pushing him far*
*shadow walks in* ARETHA! Calm. He knows he is beaten he's defenseless he cant see
*pulls off her coat immediately, wrapping it around her stomach* Thank you, Fabi.
*walks over*
Aretha, calm yourself
*lets go of Javier and falls back against ground, laughing* Now is really not the time to be hurting my friends. *laughs a little more, smiling up at the sky*
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Javier: *falls against tree* i csnt see damn it!
*kneels by Ari* Is Coco coming if not I'll heal you myself.
Now is not the time to allow yourself to Hulk out, either. *grabs Javier's shoulder, dragging him to his feet*
Javier: *doesn't protest* Adra let me go! I can barely tell who you are only by your voice
Because I've worn out my welcome. I noticed it a long time ago... I'm... I have no right to be here anymore...
Yeah I know- keep walking. I'll tell you where to goz
Javier: fine. Please dont do anything bad. *walks*
Don't you think that for a second.
Just...
I don't even know what to say anymore.
But... If you truly believed that, you wouldn't keep commenting and ghosting. Something's trying to keep you here. Please...
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It's you who are trying to keep me here... I... I'm just not fit enough for this place anymore. I blew up my base which had all the memories of me... I only ghost because I have to. If I don't... I'll go insane... I've done that once actually... I left you for a month and ended up crying in the corner of my room every night a three am
That is the falsest thing I have heard in a very, very long time, Death. You have every right in the world to be here. And I want you here, desperately. I need you to be here. I couldn't take it if I wasn't able to talk to you anymore. I know you think you're trash, but I love you and I think you're amazing and I'm just so, so lucky I even got to meet you in the first place. I'm unbelievably lucky that I had the opportunity to get so close to you. I love you and I want you here and I don't want to be here without you. I mean, it kind of stinks coming here at all because of all the pain and fighting that's been going on, but if you left, I would literally never be able to post a comment without reminding myself that you're not here. And that would just be Hell for me. Please, please don't go. I can't take you leaving.
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[hugs]
Please don't feel like you're forced to leave…
[Deep breath]
And of course, at the worst of times...
[winces]
I sort of have to go now.
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*laughs* Oh no, that was not me 'Hulking out'. That was normal for me. Actually, a lot easier than normal. Keep in mind I'm an assassin, too, except that I'm hunting people with literally hundreds of years more experience than I have. Dirty is the only way I know how to fight. That scream ordinarily would have been a bite to the neck, but I wasn't trying to kill him, so.
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Ari please. *pulls knife out of her* Can I heal you?
It's ok, Fabi. *hugs*
Death, the base was not the only thing tying you here. I didn't even know that existed until last week or something. And that's definitely not the only thing here with memories of you. I have tons of memories of you, and I'm not going anywhere.
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The base was the only physical memory of me... That and the ocean... But I can't blow up an ocean... That's absurd...
Im gonna hafta go for sure soon so! *hugs Ari* I am gonna miss you beyond anything this week so I say have fun and bye! See ya soon
Msd
*stares at the sky, looking peaceful and pensive* *disappears, and reappears a moment later in the same position with the stab wound healed* *rests hand over the bloodied hole in shirt* I'll have to get a new shirt.
Bye Zaf! *hugs*
How do you know your base has the only physical memories of you? Who's to say I don't keep journals or something? What if Niccolò spends all night painting stuff that happened during the day? How would you know?
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*grins* you do need one now Ari. Though Coco may like that shirt
Hey guysss
I. KEEP. POOFING.
UGGHHH
That just made be slightly concerned... That... I wouldn't know... I... I have no idea... Don't confuddled me!!
You act as though no one except you would choose to keep any record of your existence. Which probably would be something you'd think, but come on! I care about you, Death. Immensely. So do other people. You can't just assume the only physical memories of you are the ones you had in your base.
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Niccolo can paint? The things i learn
Hi Jubi!
It's just bloody, Zaf. I don't get it...
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Niccolo doing art...
that's an interesting image...
Of course he can paint! He was a scholar during the renaissance! I'd be surprised if he couldn't paint!
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Oh god Ari never mind...*smirks* Lets just say Niccolo is so picuturing that hole a bit bigger now he could be thinking how he'll kill Javier...Coco if you hear me no killing Javier
*stares* Niccolo Croatoan....painting? Can I see this?
He can sculpt, too.
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*giggles*
But one day, I'm just going to vanish on a "hike". No one will ever hear of me again... I'm going to carve names on trees and see if someone knows who they are... I'm going to vanish and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm going to go "poof"...
Holy crap. I can't picute Niccolo doing art. What mext he can sing?
Oh! You meant because of the hole in the shirt... Ok, I get it. Well, he's seen me in outfits significantly more shredded than this one.
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Zaf, you know he can sing. The Barbie theme is his speciality!
@Death: ....
Oh lets face it he is so picuturing things
*looks a Jubi and then just dies laughing* Niccolo....was the best looking Ken doll i seen
*grins*
oh god.. *Dies of laughter*
Well, he's sung before- with his actual voice, I mean, not as Barbie- but only a few times. He doesn't often do that.
There will never not be something I can do about it. Don't you underestimate my care for you. If you stop commenting one day, and you stop replying to my emails for some length of time, I fully intend to look you up. I'll figure out who you are if I have to, and fly all the way to Australia to get you back if I have to. I kid you not.
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[Hums Fix You]
Back, I think.
When words aren't enough
When you can't give someone a hug
When there's no button you can press
To make everything alright again
...
I don't know.... I just... Don't...
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Next time i am so painting his nails
What exactly do you mean by 'next time'?
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That kinda makes me tempted to go more Ari... Then I could meet you! But I'd also have a stalker...
I think he did for Alexis, she said something like Niccolo sung but she was half aslerp when she said it. I think he's fond of Alexis whether he'll say it or not
Next time we pkay Truth or Dare *shows pink nail polish* tell Coco he's getting his nails painted
O.O
*dies again*
DON'T FORGET THE FLOWERS!!
I think he should dress up as a Hula dancer and preform a luau for us
Oooh pink dress high heels flowers in hair lipstick eye liner purse and nails
Well, I can tell you he hasn't sung- aside from the Barbie thing- in at least 100 years. He told her plenty of stories, though, so it might have been that.
Well, Death, to be honest, doing all of that would probably get me into huge, huge trouble- more trouble than I've been in in my whole life- and I'd probably never be able to get things back to normal, as far as relationship with my parents and all that... But I'd do it anyway, if I had to. Nothing is worth losing you.
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Omg Niccolo in a hula...*fangirls*
[hugs everyone who doesn't mind a hug]
Everyone is following everyone else...
Sage Tunstall pedaled over to a couple of homeless people and gave them the lunch her Uncle Tate had packed for her. She hated those artificial lunches-that-come-from-the-store-in-a-box, but didn't want to throw it away, because the landfill was already so ****ing full. It didn't need more manmade, artificial, wasted ****. She’d already bought a nice spinach salad at the organic grocery place back in Watkins Square, anyway.
The wind blew a few strands of hair around her face as she coasted down the hill and around the corner. STARBUCKS! Sage swerved to avoid the line that stretched out the doorway and narrowly missed a tree. Stupid coffee. Stupid landscaping. Also, there really ought to be a bike lane. Why the **** wasn't there a bike lane? Or at least a shoulder in which people weren’t parking their dirty gas-guzzling cars? Seriously.
A few more blocks and she'd reached the alleyway. She pedaled past it without a glance, parking her bicycle at a park a block or so away. She chained it to the fence, then walked off in the direction she’d come, this time turning into the alleyway and looking for the door. Where had the old man put it?
She glanced along the walls, next to the trash cans and recycling bins (apparently the idiots here didn’t have a compost bin) around the metal gate at the end. Then she looked under the pile of banana peels and facepalmed. Of course it’d be there, a small square trapdoor this time. It looked barely big enough for anyone to fit through, but then, it also looked like it didn’t lead anywhere but into the ground, no hole or anything. When Sage put her foot through it, though, it went through the dirt. She swung it around, searching for a ladder or something, then realized that the other side was sideways. In one swift motion, swung the other leg through and fell through, ending up lying on her back on the floor in the hallway outside the professor’s workshop.
*******
The two figures in black exchanged glances as the girl disappeared. She hadn’t seen them, and they knew that. They also knew where the door was, even though it had automatically closed and the banana peels automatically replaced themselves almost immediately. And now they were going to use that information to their own advantage. Joy.
After several minutes, they left, but they’d be back soon enough, probably at night. Fabi opened the gate she’d been hiding behind and started back towards the street, but a man in a grey suit blocked her path. She sensed the gun in his pocket, but he didn’t draw it. Instead, he pointed.
She raised her sword too slowly; she knew that even as she began the motion. When the man pointed at her, it was like a galaxy, stars all over her vision, blinding her. She still had her metal sense, though, and the man had a pair of daggers in his coat. It took all her energy to focus, but he wasn’t moving, watching to make sure the galaxy finished her. The daggers twisted and bent, it felt painstakingly slow, but it was fast enough that the man didn’t have a chance to react. There were more voices now, some of them familiar, but she couldn’t recognize them. She heard a scream cut off, but she was drifting away from it all, farther into space, away from everything she knew and loved. Eventually, she closed her eyes and welcomed the dark void. The stars were gone, and there was…nothing.
*******
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*giggles again*
It had to have been a story. Hmm. I really feel he's fond of her like, I wonder what goes through his head. (Omg request for Nameless; Niccolo's point of view of watching Alexis whilst Javier was insane
Including the other night when we were all dancing, I've only seen him twice without his coat on. I mean, I know what he looks like without it- I have access to every memory he has, and he hasn't spent his entire life in that leather coat (though, admittedly, it's pretty close to his entire life)- but he rarely goes without that. I think you would be very hard pressed to get him into a hula outfit.
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Wow Fabi..
I'm a little too tired to read that right now... But I will later :)
well he can tie the coat around his waist or something...
Well he is very handsome with or without the coat *is blushing*
*facepalm*
It's okay, Jubi. [hugs]
[Watches the conversation, unsure whether to laugh or cry]
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You guys do realize he can hear all of this, right?
0.0 Woah. Fabi, that was awesome.
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I realize. I am perfectly aware and I intended for him to hear my comment on his looks, Niccolo you sre handsome with or without that coat. (And Ari if i need to collab for my request for Nameless i will. It. Must. Be. Done.
GAAH!!! *hic*
I HAVE HICCUPS!!! *hic*
Death, are you still here?
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*Has been laughing way too hard to be healthy for the past ten minutes*
*hic*
Thanks, Ari [hugs]
I'm trying to decide how much time to skip now...
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Ah, good. Right on cue. *smiles and hugs her* See, this is why you should stay.
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I'm trying to breathe but I can't... *Curls in ball and continues laughing*
I do hope I didnt scare Niccolo on that. I should hold my tongue but he is handsome! *buries face in hands* God.
*hugs Fabi back*
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*Beams at Ari* I shouldn't stay but I appreciate the gesture!
Gotta go! Bye Ari and Coco see ya in a week
*Hic*
See ya Zaf!!!!
Maybe not...MVSD
Jubi!!! I think you're killing me without knowing!! *Gasps* Stop it!!
Bye Zaf! *hugs*
Yes, you most definitely should stay. I am very stubborn and I will continue to insist on this.
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See you, Zaf.
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Like I'm stubborn with never letting go of Niccolo! Yeah MVSD sorry i can only be on til parents go to bed so its hard to tell when they go
Ok, this is one of those times when I really wish Niccolò had an actual physical form of his own... His paintings are awesome, but there is no way I will be able to replicate them. So they only exist in my head. Darn it. Maybe I should learn to paint...
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You should...
[Tries to avoid singing]
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SOR-*hic*-RY!!
I CAN'T ST-*hic*-OP!!!
*Laughs harder and pushes Jubi over* I'm seriously crying right here!!!
Use words to describe them. I wonder if he showed Alexis
Don't avoid singing, Fabi! Singing is awesome!
Sorry about the hiccups, Jubi. XD
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*Stumbles*
Hey! No push-*hic*-ing!
*Tried holding breath*
...
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...
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...
...
...
*Gasps for breath*
*waits*
I think they're gone...!
*Tries
Nah, he hasn't showed anyone. Not even me, but I can see inside his mind, so I know what they look like anyway. I know I can describe them verbally- that's what I always do when I become frustrated by my lack of artistic talent- but he did awesome things with shading and texture, and even at the absolute most detail oriented I can be, I wouldn't be able to perfectly describe all the lovely imperfections and the places where the paint is raised and all that...
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*Falls down and laughs harder* Stop it Jubi!
The songs coming to mind are sad...
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*Hic*
dammit...
Why is this so *hic* funny to you anyways?
*smiles* Niccolo is a very talented man, Ari. I am quite glad to know him
Alexis: *calls half awake* Niccolo is the best story teller ever!
Oh. Well, you can still sing them.
Did Adra say bye a long time ago and I'm just crazy or something, or did she vanish?
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Vanish. I havent got a text so she fell asleep i bet
I don't know Jubab!! *Wipes away tears* I think that... I don't know!! I can't think!!
I think she just va-*hic*-nished
I literally have hiccups irl.... xD
Oh. Well, night, Adra! *hugs*
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She just disappeared...
[hums Brandi Carlile's 'Tragedy' under breath, and watches the sky]
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*smiles* Alexis seems happy despite her unable to move.
Alexis: well its true Coco is awesome at telling stories
*Runs into forest to get away from Jubab*
*grins and runs after Death*
*hic*
[Laughs at the memory of the random worldwide sunset]
[smiles at Jubi]
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Do you hear the people sing?
I dedicate this page to art, it is beautiful and unique
SINGING THE SONG OF *hic* ANGRY MEN
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!
WHEN THE BEAT*hic*ING OF YOUR HEAR ECHOES *hic* THE BEATING OF THE DRUMS
Do you hear the people sing lost in the valley of the night it s the music of a people who are climbing to the light for the retched of the earth there is a flame that never dies even the darkest night will end snd the sun will rise they will live again in freedom in the garden of the lord they will walk behind the ploughshare they will put away the sword the cchai will be broken wnd all men will have their reward
*Falls down* Jubi!! I seriously can't breathe!!!
Sorry, I'm only
Human, you know me
Grown up? Oh no, guess again
My days always
Dry up and blow away
Sometimes I could do that, too
But make no mistake:
When you need a friend
You could count on anyone
But you know I'll defend
The tragedy that we knew as the end
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*chain
ME NEITHER!!! IT'S HARD TO RUN WHILE *hic*CUPING!!!
Fess up who ate Ari?
*trips over Death and falls* *Hic*
ouuuccchhhh *clutches stomach*
My chest already hurts from hiccuping
and now thi*hic*is
I'm still here, I just don't really have anything to say. But I should probably leave soon, because if I fall asleep in the next 20 minutes I'll only have 2&1/2 hours of sleep... You guys are just too awesome to leave...
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*Laughs harder and starts crawling away* Stop it Jubi!!!
I know I dont wanna leave until you do so I dont miss you! But I will miss you and Niccolo! I cant survive till next Sunday! And he never hugged me back hmph.
*Laughs and clutches stomach*
Ow
*hic*
this isn't hel*hic*ping
*Lays on back* *Is shaking with silent laughter*
*hic*
*sits by tree* ah i can handle waiting for a hug from Niccolo
Alright. I love you all to death (no pun intended), but I really do have to go now. UGh I just love you all so much!!!! *hugs everyone super super tightly* *smiles, and body slowly freezes in its position, so I end up Harry Potter style petrified, just without the stone*
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Bye Ari!
Im gonna go sleep :( bye guys
[hugs Ari tightly]
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*Hugs Ari* Bye!!!
Bye Zaf!
BAI AR*hic*III!!!! *supermegatacklehugsofdoom*
Bye Zaf
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