Yeah! Hello peoples! I am so sorry for not updating this story for ages ^^;
I got distracted with sns and my other story, an Amarant/Lani fic, but . .
. have I told y'all that already? Um, I can't remember . . .
And I haven't checked the other chapters for a while so, some of the
details and my writing style may be slightly out of synch, so please bear
with me! ^^
And Genomes are pretty heavy eaters by the way, so um, that's why the only
stop eating (politely) to talk, and I'm not exactly sure how to properly
write this either, so it may seem a little odd.
And Mikoto is the main character so that's why she keep's noting their
behavior.
So yeah, with out further annoying rambling from me, to the story!
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In a room in Lindinblaum, a room lent to the genomes for they're eating and general recreational stuff, the Genomes are sitting around neatly politely discussing what they had done that day, over dinner.
Mikoto looked over at tiffany, pausing in her eating for a moment "So Tiffany, what did you do today?" she asked before resuming eating
"I talked to one of the Tantalus" Tiffany replied in a monotone that most genomes used "He name was, Blank I believe" The other genomes paused to register this
"Was he not the one who was turned to stone?" said Lilandria almost to herself
"Yes, he and I were talking about the disaster that befell Lindinblaum when Queen Brahane attacked, he was . . ." she searched for the word, filtering through her memory banks "upset, upset or angry I believe, or at least he sounded like it" she finished not ruling out anything, as a genome would.
Selfie paused swallowing her food in a gulp "Rosa could you please pass the- " she paused "Butter" she finished triumphantly, with a note of satisfaction in her voice Mikoto noted.
"I also tried a vocal technique" added Tiffany "I believe it is called, sarcasm" Mikoto blinked in surprise, they were, or at least, attempting to express them-selves.
Rose paused eating for long enough to talk "I believe, it is in the tone of you're voice, that they read, as such you're intended message or how you want it to be interpreted" she said wisely "tone changes can indicate many thing, positive and negative even shades in-between.
There was a pause of conversation, (and chewing) as the genomes, added that to what they knew, and then conversation resumed. "Yes . . ." said Farris slowly "I believe I understand that"
Selfie laid down her knife and fork, as sign she had something to tell, all the other genomes obediently stopped, and turned to look at her "I had a strange experience today" she began "Honesty I believe it is called"
~Flashback~
In the Theater district, Selfie was walking along looking at the passing people interestedly, as they cast glances at her odd clothes (the ones she wore back in Black Mage Village) and her tail, which was twitching all over the place in the new surrounding sometimes curling around one of her legs when someone got to close to her.
A youth darted up behind her and brushed her tail cheekily, she spun around startling the boy who jumped back quickly. "S'rry miss, just wanted to see if ya tail wal real" he grinned. "Do not do so again, she said flatly, no trace of emotion in her voice "if you do it again I will defend myself" she said calmly.
"Wa? Like this?" he said reaching out to grab her tail, quick a flash her arm shot out and she grabbed his hand at the wrist, twisting it painfully "shit!" he yelped as she cast water on him, the bubble engulfing him and sending him back down the street wetting any people he brushed, instantly the crowd turned from passer by's to onlookers, standing around as guards hustled in to stop the disturbance "I ain't dun nuffin!" he howled as he was dragged up before the chief of the squad who faced him and Selfie
"What, is the meaning of this?" barked the chief of the squad hoarsely.
"He was harassing me" said Selfie flatly "And oh . . . yer one of em guest's of Regent Cid, I'll let you off this time" grunted the captain and then let her and the boy go and continued his patrol, the boy darted off into the crowd like lightning, which were suddenly passer's-bye and not watching the disturbance.
She wandered through the district for a while longer until a man shouting at the top of his lungs caught her attention "Roll up! Roll up! And see the great grand master of magic Kefkla! Watch as he does amazing feats of magic before you're very eyes! Just 50 Gil!" he bellowed to the crowd.
Selfie watched him rant to the crowd for a few minutes before she walked up to the man who was standing solidly in front of the door to the bar where the Kefkla was performing "70 Gil" he said his expression revealing nothing. "Do you not mean 50 Gil?" she asked carefully. "70" he repeated, beady eyes looking at her carefully. "That man said 50 Gil" she insisted, "70 or you can nick off" he said a hint of anger in his voice now. "50 Gil" she said now mildly annoyed. "No, 70" he said once again then someone else in the crowd yelled out at him in an amused voice "what's the matter Dyne? Not making enuf money? Wanna rob us blind?" there was a murmur of agreement in the crowd he sensed that continuing to argue would be bad for him and grudgingly muttered "50" to Selfie, who handed over the money to him and proceeded past him into the bar.
The bar was smoky and crowded she, made her was to a table in the corner and sat down tucking her tail neatly out the back of her chair and folding her hands in her laps waiting for the show to begin there was an amount of shuffling as people filed in and sat down making space for others to sit, but, she noticed that no-one wanted to sit near her, and her table, whilst having five empty chairs, was quite empty.
Eventually all the tables were full, and a man was left standing looking around the room slowly scanning for empty tables, he saw her and without hesitation strode over and sat down a chair away from here ". . ." he said glancing at her, she would have looked out of place, with short blond hair, black and pink striped clothing that she had from Black Mage Village, and, her blond (?) tail. He turned back to the stage and ignored her, rather rudely Selfie thought.
After a while of waiting her gaze started to wander around the room, as she took in the room she noted that people were casting sidelong glances at her, and talking in whispers eyeing her. She straightened up and tried to ignore the glances. After a while they quieted down, and at that exact moment the curtain of the stage rose rather jerkily to a hail of applause. A man strode out onto the stage in a bizarre cape with a swish he skidded to a halt and waited for the cheers and boo's to calm down.
"I" he proclaimed "Am Kefkla the great! I will perform tricks that will astound and amaze you! And . . . for the more, intellectual of us out there, if you can guess how I preformed a certain trick, please, don't hesitate to call out! There are prizes for those that can guess!" there was a rather showy flash and he disappeared from the stage only to reappear closer to the audience who cheered appreciatively.
He began his routine performing several tricks which Selfie guessed how he did them every time, and told him that, after a while however, she realized that the rest of the audience were sullen and quiet only an occasional cheer emanating from them, she noticed a man over at the entrance of the pub franticly gesturing to her to come over to him, she stood up and excused her self threading between the other members of the audience on the way.
"Look" he said with a pained expression "you're ruining it for the rest of the audience, weather you mean to or not it's ruing his act! Can you please leave?" he begged her plaintively.
She looked at him oddly "But he told me to" she pointed out "I know! But, look I'll give you 500 Gil if you leave quietly now!" he said desperately "We only make about 20, 000 Gil a tour, and that's just him and me! 2000 of that goes towards food and travel and about 1000 to the people who guess, if they tell other people that this show sucked, we'll only make 10, 000 if we're lucky! We barely make 8000 each!" he said rather worriedly, Selfie nodded in understanding "I will leave" she said simply
"Thank you!" He said pushing a bag of Gil into her hands, while behind her the audience had gotten into the act and were happily watching the show. She slipped out the door quietly.
~End flashback~
Mikoto waited for Selfie to finish before she began to talk "yes, truth and honesty is good, but too much is perceived as rudeness" the genomes thought that over then resumed eating in silence while they wondered about manners.
After they had finished their eating and talking they bid each other goodnight and headed to their quarters.
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Yeah, well, that's it for now, next one up soon kay? Honest!
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In a room in Lindinblaum, a room lent to the genomes for they're eating and general recreational stuff, the Genomes are sitting around neatly politely discussing what they had done that day, over dinner.
Mikoto looked over at tiffany, pausing in her eating for a moment "So Tiffany, what did you do today?" she asked before resuming eating
"I talked to one of the Tantalus" Tiffany replied in a monotone that most genomes used "He name was, Blank I believe" The other genomes paused to register this
"Was he not the one who was turned to stone?" said Lilandria almost to herself
"Yes, he and I were talking about the disaster that befell Lindinblaum when Queen Brahane attacked, he was . . ." she searched for the word, filtering through her memory banks "upset, upset or angry I believe, or at least he sounded like it" she finished not ruling out anything, as a genome would.
Selfie paused swallowing her food in a gulp "Rosa could you please pass the- " she paused "Butter" she finished triumphantly, with a note of satisfaction in her voice Mikoto noted.
"I also tried a vocal technique" added Tiffany "I believe it is called, sarcasm" Mikoto blinked in surprise, they were, or at least, attempting to express them-selves.
Rose paused eating for long enough to talk "I believe, it is in the tone of you're voice, that they read, as such you're intended message or how you want it to be interpreted" she said wisely "tone changes can indicate many thing, positive and negative even shades in-between.
There was a pause of conversation, (and chewing) as the genomes, added that to what they knew, and then conversation resumed. "Yes . . ." said Farris slowly "I believe I understand that"
Selfie laid down her knife and fork, as sign she had something to tell, all the other genomes obediently stopped, and turned to look at her "I had a strange experience today" she began "Honesty I believe it is called"
~Flashback~
In the Theater district, Selfie was walking along looking at the passing people interestedly, as they cast glances at her odd clothes (the ones she wore back in Black Mage Village) and her tail, which was twitching all over the place in the new surrounding sometimes curling around one of her legs when someone got to close to her.
A youth darted up behind her and brushed her tail cheekily, she spun around startling the boy who jumped back quickly. "S'rry miss, just wanted to see if ya tail wal real" he grinned. "Do not do so again, she said flatly, no trace of emotion in her voice "if you do it again I will defend myself" she said calmly.
"Wa? Like this?" he said reaching out to grab her tail, quick a flash her arm shot out and she grabbed his hand at the wrist, twisting it painfully "shit!" he yelped as she cast water on him, the bubble engulfing him and sending him back down the street wetting any people he brushed, instantly the crowd turned from passer by's to onlookers, standing around as guards hustled in to stop the disturbance "I ain't dun nuffin!" he howled as he was dragged up before the chief of the squad who faced him and Selfie
"What, is the meaning of this?" barked the chief of the squad hoarsely.
"He was harassing me" said Selfie flatly "And oh . . . yer one of em guest's of Regent Cid, I'll let you off this time" grunted the captain and then let her and the boy go and continued his patrol, the boy darted off into the crowd like lightning, which were suddenly passer's-bye and not watching the disturbance.
She wandered through the district for a while longer until a man shouting at the top of his lungs caught her attention "Roll up! Roll up! And see the great grand master of magic Kefkla! Watch as he does amazing feats of magic before you're very eyes! Just 50 Gil!" he bellowed to the crowd.
Selfie watched him rant to the crowd for a few minutes before she walked up to the man who was standing solidly in front of the door to the bar where the Kefkla was performing "70 Gil" he said his expression revealing nothing. "Do you not mean 50 Gil?" she asked carefully. "70" he repeated, beady eyes looking at her carefully. "That man said 50 Gil" she insisted, "70 or you can nick off" he said a hint of anger in his voice now. "50 Gil" she said now mildly annoyed. "No, 70" he said once again then someone else in the crowd yelled out at him in an amused voice "what's the matter Dyne? Not making enuf money? Wanna rob us blind?" there was a murmur of agreement in the crowd he sensed that continuing to argue would be bad for him and grudgingly muttered "50" to Selfie, who handed over the money to him and proceeded past him into the bar.
The bar was smoky and crowded she, made her was to a table in the corner and sat down tucking her tail neatly out the back of her chair and folding her hands in her laps waiting for the show to begin there was an amount of shuffling as people filed in and sat down making space for others to sit, but, she noticed that no-one wanted to sit near her, and her table, whilst having five empty chairs, was quite empty.
Eventually all the tables were full, and a man was left standing looking around the room slowly scanning for empty tables, he saw her and without hesitation strode over and sat down a chair away from here ". . ." he said glancing at her, she would have looked out of place, with short blond hair, black and pink striped clothing that she had from Black Mage Village, and, her blond (?) tail. He turned back to the stage and ignored her, rather rudely Selfie thought.
After a while of waiting her gaze started to wander around the room, as she took in the room she noted that people were casting sidelong glances at her, and talking in whispers eyeing her. She straightened up and tried to ignore the glances. After a while they quieted down, and at that exact moment the curtain of the stage rose rather jerkily to a hail of applause. A man strode out onto the stage in a bizarre cape with a swish he skidded to a halt and waited for the cheers and boo's to calm down.
"I" he proclaimed "Am Kefkla the great! I will perform tricks that will astound and amaze you! And . . . for the more, intellectual of us out there, if you can guess how I preformed a certain trick, please, don't hesitate to call out! There are prizes for those that can guess!" there was a rather showy flash and he disappeared from the stage only to reappear closer to the audience who cheered appreciatively.
He began his routine performing several tricks which Selfie guessed how he did them every time, and told him that, after a while however, she realized that the rest of the audience were sullen and quiet only an occasional cheer emanating from them, she noticed a man over at the entrance of the pub franticly gesturing to her to come over to him, she stood up and excused her self threading between the other members of the audience on the way.
"Look" he said with a pained expression "you're ruining it for the rest of the audience, weather you mean to or not it's ruing his act! Can you please leave?" he begged her plaintively.
She looked at him oddly "But he told me to" she pointed out "I know! But, look I'll give you 500 Gil if you leave quietly now!" he said desperately "We only make about 20, 000 Gil a tour, and that's just him and me! 2000 of that goes towards food and travel and about 1000 to the people who guess, if they tell other people that this show sucked, we'll only make 10, 000 if we're lucky! We barely make 8000 each!" he said rather worriedly, Selfie nodded in understanding "I will leave" she said simply
"Thank you!" He said pushing a bag of Gil into her hands, while behind her the audience had gotten into the act and were happily watching the show. She slipped out the door quietly.
~End flashback~
Mikoto waited for Selfie to finish before she began to talk "yes, truth and honesty is good, but too much is perceived as rudeness" the genomes thought that over then resumed eating in silence while they wondered about manners.
After they had finished their eating and talking they bid each other goodnight and headed to their quarters.
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Yeah, well, that's it for now, next one up soon kay? Honest!