The Side Entries: Say Hello
By, Sonsasu
Number One
"Do you have any…"
The end of her sentence faded and became a quiet hostage as a grizzled old yautja contorted his heavy features into an even tighter, line-ridden scowl. Directly opposite of her, this giant male sat cross legged and hunched over a pale brown, low-to-the-floor coffee table, a good dozen cards or so cradled in his enormous talon-capped hands.
Before she could continued, he spoke up, guttural voice mimicry croaking the majority of his words into a strained, frog-like voice-though deep enough to keep it from sounding like something on helium.
"I do, likely have this 'card' you hunt. I have half the deck!"
The incinerating-scowl then turned rightward, away from his source of laminated frustration and onto the second.
"And he has the other."
Pale cyan eyes glued themselves to the third occupant of the small living room. Orange and black stripped, and innocently sitting with legs crossed, several messily stacked, matched card sets all around, was Grinning Fangs. Ah, the smugness could suffocate for as much as the younger male was oozing it.
He wasn't stupid enough to say anything, but-
"I am good at this game. You must fish."
Okay, he was dumb enough.
Maybe adding three other card decks to form a larger one wasn't such a good idea after all. Getting to play for a while longer than the usual few minutes was the original goal, now it was to keep the menacing Elder from strangling his student…
"Aces!"
Her outburst was loud enough to attract the white and black stripped hunter's glare, and the helpful holding of an example card kept it. Clattering out what could only be a slur of muttered yautja curses, two she understand, the rest, not so much, Frozen Heart shuffled through his considerable hoard of held cards. With a grunt, he managed to extract an ace and reluctantly passed it across the table top.
She collected the card almost guiltily and added it to her own hand. "You know…we can put this game on hol-"
A sharp explosion of air passed from out of his inner mouth in an angry hiss. "We will continue this until you both have gone 'fishing' in the deck!"
Grinning Fangs' trill never had a chance to begin when a subtle nudge bumped into his shin underneath the table. Really now, three games in a row was pushing it. How he was the only one fishing for cards was a mystery.
"Do you have…a three?"
Oh boy, this was going to be a very long evening.
"Sorry, but go fish."
A.N.
Happy Easter, all.
Hope you enjoyed.
I don't think I've ever done a little-chapter, short-story series before, but this might fit my schedule better than the usual 'updates' for the current log of stories uploaded here. Now, for this soon-to-be-a-cluster of little stories, drabbles, and new character experiments, this will hopefully have a steady update log since the stories will be short. I also need to shake off the rust from my writing skills.
(Ah! And do not, 'not' and I cannot strain the word 'not' enough, go to read the original 'Say Hello'. It's old and…violently retch-worthy writing of mine. I've kept it around as a personal reminder. However, if you can stomach it due to curiosity of these three, then be my guest. The main character's name is being changed from Sonsasu (who many assume it to be a self insert, despite otherwise…and the impossibly of it) to something else for the re-wright of Say Hello.)