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Post by Anela Hyde on May 17, 2009 20:21:23 GMT -6
She had come to a conclusion. He was the strangest person she had ever met. It wasn't necessarily bad... just strange. She smiled as he bowed.
"Anela Hyde." She said, politely giving her name in return. The silence was still pressing on here ears but it was more bearable. She wouldn't mind waiting a little bit if there was someone else here. Also he may know where to find another train station or not. But he may at least know the direction of the next town.
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Post by Basil the Magician on May 25, 2009 8:35:59 GMT -6
Basil rose and returned his cap. The pain of moving he longed gotten use to. Something that just being told how can you live like that has helped. He twisted the hat till it was correctly situated on his hat.
"It is a pleasure, Miss Anela." The scrawny boy came forward and took her hand to kiss her fingers. After he did so, he realized that his hat should have been off during this process. To late for that now, besides, this wall all a joke right now. They were both stuck on a sinking city with the only real sturty part being the train station.
Color came to the boy's face when he looked up at her with an innocent puppy eyed face. "You... umm..." Basil stuttered, "Wouldn't happen to have any food... Do you?"
It was sad that they were as close to a deserted place and he was begging for food because of his own stupidity, or stubbornness (he has thought both).
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Post by Anela Hyde on May 25, 2009 9:53:29 GMT -6
Anela almost yanked her handout of his hold before she stopped herself. At the moment her hands were gloved but that wouldn't stop anyone from noticing they were metal just from touching them. She normally didn't like to let people know any of her body was automail. she was either labeled a freak or pitied and she didn't want either. Though she probably deserved to be called a freak. But she didn't actually have much of a problem letting Basil know. She would prefer that he didn't but he was odd enough that she wasn't going to get much scorn from him.
"It's nice to meet you too." She smiled naturally instead of politely this time. She just couldn't help it. He was being nice to her and she automatically responded to it. Though when he looked up at her with that pitiful face and begged for food she laughed a little. "You don't have to try so hard." After all he looked like he was near starving she probably would have given him something to eat whether he had asked or not. She reached in to her pocket and produced an apple. "though I don't really have much." she said apologetically.
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Post by Basil the Magician on May 25, 2009 12:04:50 GMT -6
A beaming glow came from Basil as he accepted the apple. It looked just as if she was handing him ice cream, or the children that he gives candy to. Nothing was better in the world. He was hungry enough to react this way.
"Thank you very much!" His teeth sank into the apple happily. This willl hopefully last him till his next show. Deep inside him he knew it wasn't. His hunger was getting farther and farther down the hole and his little meals wasn't enough to keep him from going down farther.
"Anything is better than nothing! I have had nothing for to long!" Basil did swallow completely before speaking again. "If only I could have alchemy make me food!" All he knew was how to combine sugar and water into hard candy.
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Post by Anela Hyde on May 25, 2009 12:16:50 GMT -6
She smiled at him. as he accepted it. H hand;t even mentioned her metal arm and that was a nice change. She took the bag off her back and dug through it eventually producing a few ore apples. She took one herself and offered the others to him. After all she as fine. And she remembered all to well what it was like to be hungry.
"Just out of curiosity. What brought you here?" She as here to catch a train. why anyone else would be here was beyond her. That and he had said a trian had recently left.
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Post by Basil the Magician on May 28, 2009 7:56:25 GMT -6
The apple was nearly half gone before he spoke again. Each time he took a bite out of the apple he took three very close together. He was hardly chewing the chunks, and not tasting the sweet juices at all. It wasn't till pain struck his throat when the chunk wouldn't go down as fast as the others that he answered her question.
"I entertain the masses," Basil answered hardly able to speak as the apple slowly went down his throat. It felt as if he ate a hot coal, not a cool sweet apple. "I thought there was going to be more people then... Then this." His arm came up presenting the torn down city.
The tourist attraction was no more then rubble now, ancient history. But even so, there had to be someone here. Something here... Only creatures that seemed to like Aquroya now were the birds and the fishes.
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Post by Anela Hyde on May 31, 2009 18:49:05 GMT -6
He entertained the masses? Anela gave a small smile. "Must be a very enjoyable line of work." She shuddered as her attention was drawn back to the empty city. It remained her to ,much of her home after her brothers death. So silent and empty. "When they told me how to get to the train station I thought there would be more people too. And more trains for that matter." She took a small bite out of her apple.
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Post by Basil the Magician on Jun 1, 2009 23:39:24 GMT -6
She thought it would be enjoyable? Only the children thought it would be enjoyable. All of the adults thought he was completely pointless. Yet, he knew that he was doing something. Otherwise they wouldn't tip him in the end. But Anela wasn't a child. She was a grown girl! This made him smile.
"Yes, I get to travel to many different places!" Her reaction didn't go unnoticed by him. There was a story behind this girl that he wouldn't mind hearing. That was something for him because he didn't like hearing stories that he wouldn't eventually repeat for spare change. Only the personal lives of the Elric Brothers did he really tell a story to. That and a tall tale of his own.
"You didn't know what you got yourself into. Sadly, I did. He looked down for a moment which brought his attention back to the apple. In a few more minutes it would be gone. The burn in his throat was now gone. That meant he didn't have anything holding him back now!
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Post by Anela Hyde on Jun 2, 2009 20:22:16 GMT -6
"So you must know your way around pretty well then?" She didn't explain her wince in fact she hoped it was unnoticed or something. "So do you know the best way to get to central? or too another train station?" She was going to wait here for a while and she didn't want to leave someone in his shape alone if she could help it. But the information would be helpful and very appreciated.
"You knew this place would be like this?" Anela couldn't fathom how a person would come here if they knew what is was like.
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Post by Basil the Magician on Jun 4, 2009 14:56:59 GMT -6
Basil shook his head. The last thing he knew was his way around Amestris. The only thing he knew was if there was a problem in the town that was the first place he wanted to go. No matter what, people would pay for entertainment.
He finished the bulk of the apple in one mouth full. That meant multiple bites to get too. Was he done with the apple? No of course not. He worked at picking the apple core clean shortly afterward. The only thing left was the hard inside and the seeds when he was done with it. The only color left was right next to the step and the leafy part underneath.
"Yep. The more miserable the place the better." He replied with a grin. "Festivals work too, but that is where you have to work hard." There was never a time Basil didn't work hard. That is what makes the festivals hard to work with. Especially with his condition. Some of the performers there seemed like they could last days and he could only for a few hours. That was his own fault in the end.
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Post by Anela Hyde on Jun 5, 2009 20:43:03 GMT -6
Anela sighed as he shook his head. so she was no better off then sh was before. She offered him another apple. Those she had a few of stashed away anyway. and she could work for some food as soon as she got to the next town. She still felt so bad for him.
His logic about coming here made no sense. "its better to entertain in a place with no people?" her one visible eye brow was raised in question.
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Post by Basil the Magician on Jun 14, 2009 21:12:06 GMT -6
That made him laugh. Aquroya was empty. Or at least appeared empty. But there was something inside of him that said that there was something other than the birds that lived on the sinking town. The chances that they had money was next to zero. With Basil's condition, he couldn't find them anyway.
Just because he was in this condition didn't mean that he was going to be that needy. Dispite how hungry he still was the scrawny boy shook his head to the apple. Something was now in his stomach, that was good enough for now. At least, till they both got to a populated area. But being in a populated area won't exactly save Basil right now. He still had no money.
"As I said before. I didn't expect this place to be empty," he said as he tipped his hat to cover his eyes. "There are always those..." He then continued in a story telling voice, "Left behind!"
Basil lifted the enormous hat back up and looked at Anela with a grinning face. "Basil the Story-teller at your service." Now he was giving his many other names. At least all of them had Basil in it.
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Post by Anela Hyde on Jul 17, 2009 20:46:19 GMT -6
She almost giggled. "Your very good at what you do." She reached up and gently adjusted her makeshift eye patch. After all this time it was still bothering her. The scar tissue was very uncomfortable considering she was used to an eye being there. It wasn't as bad as it used to be. The depth perception had been the hardest thing to get used to.
She re offered him the apple. "I have a couple more you should eat this one." She gave him a small smile. "Besides I'm not really hungry." She was used to trying to make people eat. Her older siblings always used to try and give her extra food. When it was just the two of them Breyden had often refused to eat so that she could. It wasn't good for him and he was the one working to provide for them, so she had found ways to make him eat with out feeling bad.
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Post by Basil the Magician on Jul 20, 2009 11:44:48 GMT -6
She was still offering him food? That either meant that she was a very kind person and liked giving away food, he begged a bit too well, or his condition was a bit more obvious on the outside then he would have liked. He didn't like it at all, but it was something he couldn't help.
"Do you think so?" Basil asked looking up at her. "You haven't even seen my act." That might be a good thing though. If she already was having a ball with it that meant he must really be amazing when he's actually working. That little bit of arrogance brought his spirits up quiet a bit. And right now, he really needed it.
The entertainer easily took the apple from her. She did offer after all, and he really did need it. This meant he had to pay her back in some way though. Not that it was necessary, just because he wanted to. Anela really deserved it. "Thank you!" He gave her a little boy's smile. This time he started eating the apple much slower. The crave for it was not weaker then before, but he had a bit more of a mind to be polite.
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Post by Anela Hyde on Aug 13, 2009 11:40:07 GMT -6
She smiled, glad that he took the apple. She knew all to well what it felt like to be that hungry. It was a fate that she would not wish on anyone.... Well, almost. There were a few people she would wish would starve to death. Basil was definitely not anywhere near one of them.
The good thing to be said about her eye patch and metal limbs. She would probably never have to deal with people like them again. She didn't look like a pretty little girl with an Innocent face anymore. The eye patch marked her as a fighter even though she was not one. Mostly she hid the automail to avoid all the strange looks and those filled with pity. She deserved no pity. The reason she had ended up like this was all her fault. The reason she had even gotten to the point to try human transmutation was her fault. If she hadn't been there those men wouldn't have given Her brother a second glance. They had attacked the two of them because of her, and Brayden had died trying to protect her.
"I'm sure your act is wonderful." she made herself smile despite her depressing thoughts. She had no right to ruin his day because of her past stupidity.
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