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Post by trishiabidaure on May 18, 2016 5:55:09 GMT -5
The little boy stared on the ground with his brown eyes turning green and violet, he has no idea what his name was until a voice called out to him.
~ "Andrew Malus Dienheim. Live and know more of the world." ~
His eyes turned to brown again as he tried to move his mouth to say his name, "Andrew...Malus...Dienheim..." he spoke in a monotone voice. Kasturi is surprised about his name being THAT foreign, it sounds like he came from Europe especially from his 'Dienheim' surname. "Andrew. A boy whose name meant 'Man'? This guy's not from here after all." Kasturi is able to learn the meaning of the name 'Andrew' that meant in either Scottish or Greek as 'Man', or anything that is related to manly stuffs.
"Who...Are...You?" Andrew suddenly asked them, the princess was surprised that his speech is somehow limited. It must have been the trauma that caused him to speak less, or maybe he doesn't know how to speak with his mouth open.
Kasturi stood up with her thumb pointing to herself.
"The name's Puteri Limau Kasturi...Opps! You can't speak Malay, sorry. It means Princess Kasturi of the Kingdom of Limau in English, I know it's long.", she introduced herself. Though she forgot that they can't understand the language she's been, so she translated it in English somehow.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 18, 2016 22:00:28 GMT -5
The boy, whose named turned out to be Andrew, didn't seem to talk all that well. Aidan wasn't sure if it was cause of the trauma he endured or if he just always spoke that way. Kids with limited speech wasn't a new thing to him, though. Saorise still didn't talk that much around him. Andrew asked who he and everyone else was and the woman introduced herself as Princess Kasturi. "I'm Aidan, a healer," he replied. "And that's Facilier. He's the ringmaster of this circus, Cirque Mystique."
Facilier nodded in greeting, but said nothing more. Kasturi being a princess sure explained her hoity-toity behavior. But he wasn't about to comment on that. Aidan would probably get onto him for that.
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 19, 2016 6:59:19 GMT -5
"Ringmaster? As in the LEADER of the Cirque? So you're that guy when I peeked in to the tent before. So, your name is - what is it? Fish Fillet?" Princess Kasturi is amazed that she was with the Ringmaster of Cirque Mystique, now if only she could pronounce "Facilier" right then it wouldn't be a problem in giving the Ringmaster her first impression. But when Kasturi said Fish Fillet, Andrew laughed when she mispronounced his name in which he thought that it was actually funny.
"Kasturi...Aidan...Facilier...", Andrew pointed to each of the names of the three, probably that's how he memorised the names of the people he met. He was silent for a while until he raised his hand and waved slowly to them. "H...He....Hello..." he said to them while slowly smiling like nothing bad happened to him at all.
Kasturi stared at the little boy, just how can a little boy endured an arrow wound and got violated at his age...and yet he was smiling?! "This boy's...too innocent. How can he smile after all that happened to him? He got violated and got wounded, and he's still smiling! Are you seeing this, Aydin?", she began to think that she was getting crazy from the happenings, especially when she mispronounced 'Aidan' with Aydin.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 20, 2016 16:38:16 GMT -5
Aidan couldn't help but snicker at Kasturi's botched attempt at pronouncing Facilier's name. He even though he saw the ringmaster crack a smile, if only for a moment. Maybe he was finally getting over his earlier anger. Or maybe he sympathized with Kasturi in that English wasn't her first language.
"Hey kid," Facilier replied. "Guess you're feeling better?"
Kasturi commented on that as well. Andrew seemed pretty chipper for someone who had had a near death experience. Aidan gave a shrug. "Kids are pretty resilient sometimes," he replied. "Although I don't know how much that's applied to physical injuries. But, you get my point." He looked back at Andrew. "Do you have a home to go back to? Or a family?" he asked. If this kid had parents, they should probably get him home soon. They might be worried.
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 21, 2016 5:30:19 GMT -5
When Aidan asked Andrew about his family, Kasturi is hoping that the kid still has a family to redeem with. Her guess is that the injuries came from his family if they are really abusive on him, whether if it is physical, mental, or sexual type of abuse.
Andrew opened his mouth, but closed when he's in deep thought about his family. He instead asked a question that shocked the princess, "Fa...mily? What's....family?"
Kasturi slapped her forehead by the revelation that whoever hurt him really done it too far now, she still had to compose her tougher side at least to answer his question. "Family? You don't know? No mama? Papa? Brother or sister? Even grandparents?!", she asked desperately in hopes that there are family members to take care of him.
"Oooh...........They're dead!" Andrew just answered bluntly with enthusiasm, Kasturi think that he's a psycho or anything. "Dead? DEAD? WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEAD?! Don't tell me you murdered them or something!" she began to interrogate the boy whom she thought that she rescued a psychopath.
"No! No...It's....They told me to in dreams. Great-grandpa suicide, Sister ill and dead, and then Granpa and Mama executed." Andrew answered honestly like a kid. Kasturi has her jaw dropped by how Andrew answered so honest without any remorse or something in her point of view.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 23, 2016 10:56:19 GMT -5
Aidan and Facilier glanced at each other. The kid's family was dead? That made things a little more complicated. The two of them and Kasturi were kind of responsible for this kid now. Speaking of which, Kasturi seemed to panic for a second, thinking that when Andrew said his family was dead, that maybe he had killed him himself.
"Kasturi, relax, we can't jump to conclusions yet," Aidan said, putting a hand on her shoulder. Luckily, Andrew soon cleared up the situation by explaining. Aidan wondered what the heck had killed his grandpa and mother. Who had executed them? Was it the same person who had tried to kill him tonight? "Well, what do we do now?" he asked, turning to Facilier.
"Well, I do know the locations of some supernatural orphanages," Facilier replied. "They can take him in and make sure he gets adopted by a family who knows about magical things. Or...he could always stay here. The circus isn't exactly a stranger to parent-less children."
Aidan nodded in agreement. He was definitely aware of that. Saorise had been parent-less when she had arrived here. Luckily, she had latched herself onto Carl over the past few months. Maybe Andrew could do the same for somebody. "Well young man, what do you think?" he asked. "Would you like to stay here at the circus? You'll be safe here, that much we can assure you. Facilier's got some pretty strong guards looking after this place."
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 24, 2016 6:39:41 GMT -5
"No! No no no no no! No going to the orphanages! I don't trust them, who knows what they will do to him if he stays there! They could even do worse than what happened to him today." Kasturi doesn't like the idea of putting Andrew to the orphanage, she thinks that people in there would assault him even worse.
Andrew overheard the conversation about the possibilities of him staying to the Cirque instead, he wasn't sure of it. He has no idea of the place he is living in, or know other people yet. He went even closer to Aidan, even to the point of hugging him tight. "I don't know...I'm scared.", he murmured as tears are slowly flowing to his eyes.
"He's right, for one thing that he doesn't know what an orphanage is." She went further to Andrew and stretched her arms to lift him, "And possibly neither the Cirque he has to-"
"NO!", Andrew just yelled in front of the princess. She has her hands up to her face now when the little boy went to his timid self again and screamed at her, she understand that it was unintentional to scream at her because he was still affected from what's happening. Just because he became bubbly, doesn't mean that it's over for her.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 26, 2016 10:44:19 GMT -5
Facilier frowned. "The dingy orphanages aren't on my list, I can assure you. My granddaughter was raised by a pretty good one before she was adopted. Any kid who goes there isn't going to come out some loveless sociopath."
Aidan was quiet for a moment. He was thinking. Andrew didn't seem to particularly like either option. Fear was making it hard for the little boy to decide on what he wanted. As he watched him interact with Kasturi though, he got an idea. "There is a third option," he said. "He could always stay under your care Kasturi, if you felt like you could take care of him." Even though Andrew was very afraid, Kasturi seemed to care about him quite a bit already. Maybe Andrew would feel safe if he was with her.
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 27, 2016 6:28:38 GMT -5
Kasturi stared at Aidan for the suggestion that might get her in trouble, "I got TWO reasons why I can't; One, I can't bring him to the kingdom because I might cause a scandal of having a child. They might thought that I got pregnant and him being born, my father will disown me and go back to this place anyway once I did! Two, he just yelled at me! Besides, America is like a thousand miles from Malaysia! Bringing him would be outrageous."
She looked at Andrew with her serious expression, "Andrew you really got to choose, things would not come and go unless you give us the signal! You'll be the one who has the decision, not us."
Andrew is having a hard time in choosing, not even the third option helped. "I don't know! I don't know! I'm scared!", he said with flowing tears.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 28, 2016 18:49:40 GMT -5
"Okay, okay, no need to get all fussy," Aidan said, holding up his hands defensively. "It was just a suggestion." Kasturi hadn't really seemed to calm down much, despite Andrew being healed. Maybe it was because where he would live was up in the air. Speaking of Andrew, the kid was practically in tears from all the pressure he was facing. "Hey, easy there kid. It's okay," Aidan said soothingly, trying to calm him down.
"Hmm, maybe he doesn't have to make a decision right now," Facilier suggested. "He could stay here for a little while and have some time to think things over. We'll give him the space he needs to figure out what he wants to do."
"That's actually not a bad idea," Aidan said.
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 30, 2016 0:33:20 GMT -5
"Yeah, that would be good. I think you're right from that, Fish Fillet.", Kasturi said as she nodded in satisfaction. Perhaps his decision will have to wait for a while, the trauma is still affecting him anyway so he can't make a decision from that state. Andrew remained silent as he listened to what the older people would say, his eyes are getting heavy though. He rest his head slowly to Aidan's arms as he tried to make himself awake during their conversation. "Hmmm...Speaking of staying, where is he going to sleep?", Kasturi asked the ringmaster. If he's going to stay in the Cirque for a while, at least there is somewhere he could live temporarily.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on May 30, 2016 12:37:02 GMT -5
Facilier sighed. If any of the circus members caught onto his new nickname, he was never going to live it down. He could picture Esmeralda and or Miguel walking up to him and easily saying "What's up, Fish Filet?" Aidan, however, thought it was pretty funny, although he wasn't exactly going to laugh now. Besides, Kasturi asked another important question: Where was this kid going to stay?
"Well, we do have a boys' sleeping tent," Facilier said. "That's usually where new recruits go." He glanced at Aidan, who seemed to be thinking something. "Did you have something different in mind?"
"Sort of," Aidan replied. "Maybe he should stay in the medical tent, for the first night at least. I want to keep an eye on him and make sure he's healing up properly."
"Well, there we go. Problem solved," Facilier said with a satisfied smile. Then he turned to Kasturi and asked "What about you, missy? Are you gonna camp out here too?" He didn't mind her staying the night, but he just wasn't sure if she had some place she needed to be or not.
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Post by trishiabidaure on May 31, 2016 0:41:47 GMT -5
"Well....My kingdom is like....a thousand miles away from here.", the princess said sheepishly as she rubbed her back. The Kingdom of Limau is quite far from Cirque Mystique, very...VERY far from Cirque Mystique. She began to wonder why did she went far away from her home, though. Good thing that Facilier gave her a suggestion to "camp" while Aidan is keeping an eye of Andrew, she might do the same thing as well.
"Hmmm.....Yyyyyeah. I guess I'll stay here too, we may never know for sure anyway if things get worse too. If you know what I mean." she said to the Ringmaster.
Andrew is slowly drifting off to sleep, all of the happenings must have drained his energy the whole night. He closed his eyes as he sleeps quietly while the adults are conversing.
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Post by angelofmusic1992 on Jun 3, 2016 11:24:05 GMT -5
Facilier nodded. So, Kasturi would spend the night here along with Andrew. Hopefully, after they had gotten some rest, they could figure out a more definite plan. "Well, if you guys are all good to go, I have some paperwork to take care of. You good, Aidan?"
"Oh yeah, we're fine," Aidan said. "I've got stuff to set these two up for the night. Thanks for your help."
Facilier gave a nod and a tip of his hat before heading out the tent. Thad had been a bit stressful, to say the least. But, Andrew was saved and it looked like he would heal up just fine. That was good to know.
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Post by trishiabidaure on Jun 5, 2016 4:49:44 GMT -5
"Well then see ya soon, Fish Fillet!" the princess waved goodbye and good night to Facilier when he's going to leave the tent. Good thing the situation is finally over for now, she should get some rest from all the running and panicking, and Facilier when the two got their funny arguments.
She looked at Andrew who is sleeping peacefully, thank goodness he's healed and okay. A new question filled up her head. "Say, you have beds for him to sleep on or something and not some operating table?", because sleeping on an operating table creeps her out and probably it's cold for the child to sleep.
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