Freddie’s Story – Introduction

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hi my name is freddie …….. freddie avani my mom ……. of my parents ….. well ……. ummm …..what oh yeah parents my mom was anwen avani ……. dad no don’t know …… huh …… no never knew mom said … Continue reading →

G 2 Ch 1 – Transitions

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The days that followed Almas death were hard ones for the Avani family. Gage did his best to choke back his own grief, he and Almas had had so many wonderful years together on and off the police force. Instead … Continue reading →

Generation 1.2 Ch1 – A New Beginning

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Her boss was Lieutenant Dorothy DeMayo, who would probably be forced out soon due to her age … it seems the council has something against older people working, and her patrol partner was a woman named Tana Leal. She told me her partner was a little bit surprised when she learned that Almas’s last name was Avani. She had thought that was a name unique to her step-daughter Anwen. Continue reading →

Primrose Avani – an apocalypse inspired challenge Ch1

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I don’t know where I come from. What I do know is that when I awoke on the beach I was soaking wet. My head felt clouded and hurt, upon inspecting my person I found I have what feel like markings or scars on my neck and face, small metal hoops in my ears, what I think are feathers in my hair, a ring with an blue-green stone in it, and I discovered a mark on my right wrist that does not come off in symbols I don’t understand. Continue reading →

G2 Ch 7 – Cadeyrn and Chrysanta

One day after Kelsey had gotten signed up with the military, he came home to see Brava sitting and talking to one of the resident ghosts. It still startled him to see them but he was getting used to it. It was the word baby that caused him to pause on the stairs, he stared at Brava. It was possible, she had been gaining weight like crazy now that she could eat the soup again. He smiled and put his hands on the metal bar he had been instructed to put on some muscle by his Drill Sergent.

While playing a game of chess Brava broke the news to Badr that in a few months he would be an uncle. Badr asked her if she had a preference for the baby’s gender, Brava confessed that she didn’t but Kelsey had expressed a preference for a boy. Brava said all she wanted was healthy.

Several months later Brava was walking around outside enjoying the brisk afternoon air when a spasm ripped through her belly. Brava held true to her name, no-one else was home and the spasm was rapidly followed by more, alone and outside she delivered her first child.

When Kelsey came home from border patrol he was over joyed to see their new son Cadeyrn. Brava watched him and smiled, as they ate their evening soup she casually mentioned that she would like to try for a girl. Kelsey grinned and told her whenever she was ready they would.

When Cadeyrn was about 3 months old Brava started experiencing intense nausea again, as she ran for the toilet she muttered that she hoped the sickness would not last as long as it had the first time.

She was in the middle of telling Kelsey the news when Badr walked through the house looking like he had been on fire. Brava looked at him and asked what had happened. Badr said that a piece of equipment had exploded, he then told her not to worry about it. Brava planned on it, except he kept coming home singed day after day.

Finally out of frustration she pulled him to the side and tersely told him that she was not willing to lose another brother anytime soon. Badr looked at her and grimaced, he told her that the work was important and if they could get the machines to work properly the world would change as they knew it. Brava glared at him and told him that this machine had better be worth it.

About 2 weeks before Cadeyrn was to be a year old Brava felt the first spasm ripple across her swollen abdomen, she gritted her teeth and cried out sending her brother and husband into a blind panic … early … to early ….. she gritted out between contractions, the pain was worse than when Cadeyrn had been born but there was no stopping it. All they could do was help her stay upright .

As Brava held her new born daughter in her arms she stated that she was never putting herself through another pregnancy again. Badr smartly nodded while Kelsey looked as if someone had just killed his dreams. Brava stared at her daughter and said that she looked like a golden flower to her, Badr mentioned that the lab had a plant called Chrysanta’s that produced golden flowers into the tense silence. Brava said that sounded like the perfect name when Kelsey tried to suggest a name Brava shut him out. Badr wasn’t sure why Brava was fighting with her husband but he hoped it would stop and soon. Brava looked at Kelsey and stated that he could stay home with the babies she was going to get her dream job. Kelsey just nodded and looked even more crushed. Badr was going to say something when he spotted the white hairs mingled with the yellows in Kelsey’s hair, then he understood Kelsey had lied to Brava about his age and was older than either of them had thought.

At first Kelsey was very despondent about being relegated to a stay at home parent, once he realized that Brava still cared for him and wasn’t going to kick him out he relaxed. It took a few weeks but he eventually became very good at caring for their children and even seemed to enjoy it. although Badr noticed from time to time that if Kelsey thought no one was looking he would start to look forlorn and lonely.

 

One morning Biff came home from one of his mystery outings with a woman in tow. Kelsey had just been cleaning stray leaflets out of the yard, before Biff could introduce his new acquaintance Kelsey and the woman stared at each other and then grabbed at each other with a fevered passion. Biff happily slid past them into the house. For the next month Charlotte came by every day about mid-day with Biff and the baby’s being the only ones to ever see her. Not once did Kelsey pause to wonder why Biff wasn’t saying anything to the others, he was just grateful for the chance to be with his first love again.

Then one day Kelsey lost track of time, Brava did not look pleased to see someone she didn’t know in the house. Kelsey quickly introduced her as one of his former squad mates from his brief time in the military. Brava nodded and scooped up Cadeyrn for a quick snuggle. Her first month had been an interesting month with all kinds of rules like stay away from the top floor of city hall. Afterwards Kelsey told Charlotte that she couldn’t come over anymore, he didn’t know what had gotten into him but he didn’t want to destroy his marriage. Charlotte looked crushed but respected his wish and stayed away.

Kelsey renewed his efforts to be a good father and focused on teaching Cadeyrn all he would need to know before he entered school. If Badr and Brava knew of the brief affair they never let on, but the level comradeship that they had before Chrysanta’s birth never came back and Biff seemed just a little happier than he had been before.

G 2 Ch 6 – Moving Forward

Even though Brava knew it was forbidden to stay outside for to long, she couldn’t bring herself to go in the house.

The empty bedroll that had been Baako’s for as long as she could recall was to painful to see. Worse was the ache she felt in her chest when she looked at her portrait sitting on Baako’s easel. Neither Badr or Brava could bring themselves to move it. Biff grinned if anyone stared at him for to long, but it wasn’t an issue since he was seldom home, keeping odd hours, vanishing up the stairs and off into town before anyone could get a word let alone sentence out his direction. If Biff was feeling any pain at the loss of Baako he didn’t show it.

Late one night before heading into the igloo Brava pulled Kelsey to her, placing a small woven ring of dried grass dug up from under the snow on his finger Brava said “I love you and want to spend the rest of our lives together.” Kelsey nodded and placed a similar woven ring saying “Cha …… Brava I accept your ring and with this ring agree to be your husband.” Brava attributed his slip in name to Kelsey’s being tired and the fact that they were both still very upset about Baako’s death. Besides several weeks before she asked him to move in Kelsey had told her that he was no longer seeing Charlotte Kessler.

One afternoon Badr came home with a pair of lettuce seeds from the science lab, with the instructions to plant them in the ground. Badr’s fingers were frozen and stiff by the time he got a small hole dug into the frozen ground, he had serious doubts about the seeds ability to grow under such conditions, but this was part of his job. Nor was he the only one attempting to grow seeds, his cousin Carla Kessler was also being given seeds to plant.

Not long after Badr planted the seeds and Brava started feeling sick, Badr and Kelsey both suggested it was because she was sleeping outside unprotected from the toxins. Brava finally agreed to return to the indoors, staring at Baako’s painting she realized that while she still ached for her brother it didn’t hurt as much as it had when they first lost him.

When Brava started throwing up, she tried to keep it from the men, but when there’s only one room and the wall between that room and the toilet room is nothing more than a thin piece of wood it’s impossible to keep secrets. Trying to eat the soup nauseated Brava even worse, causing her to make even more trips to throw up. Badr and Kelsey whispered their concerns to each other, she was getting so thin and hardly any soup ever stayed down. Some days all it took was a look at the soup someone was eating and she would run to the toilet pale faced with beads of sweat standing out on her forehead, her hand clamped over her mouth. Badr stared and wished fervently that they had some one to go to that could tell them what was wrong with her. Biff would just smile and slow down his eating slurping the soup loudly, Badr and Kelsey hated how much pleasure Biff was taking from Brava’s illness.

Some months later Brava lay on the bed talking with Kelsey about how she thought she might be getting better when Biff dragged dragged some rusty metal into the house. Brava didn’t like the look of the metal but when she saw that Biff was able to use it to pull himself off the ground she understood that he had found something to help him build strength. Looking at Kelsey she whispered “I wonder why he wants to build up his strength?” Kelsey whispered back that he had no idea. Since no one went out of their way to talk to Biff the question was left hanging.

Then came a day that Brava had given up hope on, she was able to sit and eat a full bowl of soup, she wasn’t the only one happy. Kelsey said that perhaps if she was better then it would be a good idea for them both to go out and get jobs. Brava had been to sick to continue at her last  job, and Kelsey hadn’t gotten one because he was taking care of her. Brava placed her hand on her thickening middle and said she wanted to put on some more of her former weight before going back to work but it would be good for Kelsey to get out and work. She asked him if he knew what he wanted to do. He told her he wasn’t sure but there had been a military recruiter by recently perhaps he would look into that. They smiled happily at each other across the table ignoring Biff’s ice cold stare from across the room, he was the only one not happy to see Brava recovering her health.

In the early morning hours before he would leave for work Badr checked on the seeds that head previously planted and planted more taking careful notes for the lab supervisors. Sometimes he and Carla would compare notes, not that either was having much luck with their seeds. That the lab heads were frustrated was an understatement, but no one was having any luck. Until one day one of the heads observed that it was much warmer in the labs than it was outside. Badr asked “Is there a way to raise the outside temperature or a way to bring the plants inside?” Everyone looked at everyone else and a new list of experiments was drafted of the following weeks.

Out takes from – finding a man

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G 2 Ch 5 – finding a man

Author’s note: Due to the game problems I experienced and having to uninstall & then re-install there may or may not be some slight changes in appearances and the town.

Baako didn’t worry to much when Brava stated she was going out for the day. He presumed that she was off to get a job with the police department.

It wasn’t until the brothers realized that it was well after dark that they began to worry about Brava. Where had she gone and what was she up to?

When Brava got home she grabbed a soup before heading to bed, while quietly noting to herself that she would have to hide Baako’s painting when she got up in a few hours. she wondered what had over come him that he had finished a second painting even though art in any form was forbidden.

When Baako woke up he found the house empty and his painting gone. He sighed to himself he had hoped the others would leave it alone but he understood why it had vanished. He couldn’t tell if Brava had come home and that worried him.

Badr was instructed to try and find some seeds for work. He recalled their mom, Almas, talking about seeds always being near the old home. While he was picking up the only two seeds that he could find Badr noticed that it looked as if someone had been at the place recently. Tucking the seeds in his pocket he headed home hoping Brava would be there so he could ask her about the day before. She wasn’t home by the time he went to bed and Baako wasn’t getting anywhere either with her. She was very tight lipped about her days and nights and it was driving Baako and Badr just slightly nuts. Eventually they gave up trying to get her to talk on the rare instances that they saw her, the one detail they were able to note was she seemed to have new uniform outfits a lot.

Then one evening Baako and Badr noted that it was past time for Biff to get home from school. Baako was about to go looking for Biff when he heard the door open. One look at Biff sent a shiver down Baako’s spine, just when had Biff developed those hard edges to his face. Badr looked at Biff, wanted to ask question’s but the look on Biff’s face and the way he was moving made Badr hold back on any questions he might have asked.

On one rare day Baako managed to catch Brava before she vanished.

“Sis I still have one really good piece of wood left I want to paint your portrait.“

“Yeah I guess, let me toss on some different clothes first. Will it be dark like dad’s?“

“Probably the lighting in here isn’t that great, but I really want to paint you as you are now.“

Biff seemed a little to happy as he headed out to do whatever it was he was doing these days.

One afternoon when Badr was occupied with fixing the bathroom sink and Brava had vanished yet again Baako asked Biff if he had seen the others.

“Biff have you seen Badr or Brava, they were going to help me look for wooden boards to paint on.“

“Nope, haven’t seen them. Wooden boards, hmmm I heard where some are but it’s risky I don’t know if I should tell you.“

“Oh come-on it’s probably not that big of a risk, after all I did climb the school roof and jump off.“

“Well if you insist. There is a large stack of wood washed up on the big island in the bay, to get there you have to swim.“

“That island’s not that far our there, are you sure about the boards being on it?“

Biff nodded a yes, and Baako headed off towards one of the beaches closest to the island. He didn’t hear Biff whisper. “The boss did use a boat to store them all out there and only had one of the flunky’s swim a few feet.“

Badr had taken off to hunt for more seeds, his boss at the lab wanted as many as could be found. Looking around he only saw Biff and asked if he had seen Brava or Baako. Biff responded no and headed off for his job.

Brava was out front making out with her soon to be husband, Kesley Early, when a police officer showed up. Brava eyed the officer after being sure that the nervous rookie really was a cop she agreed to answer questions.  they were simple ones, “Was this the Avani house?” “Did she have a brother?” It wasn’t until he showed her the sketch of Baako that Brava became alarmed.

The officer kept stumbling over his words but he finally explained that Baako’s body had been found washed up on one of the beaches. After a few routine questions about why he had been at the beach the officer left.

Kesley was shocked when Brava just started weeping on his shoulder. He didn’t know what to do, so he held her and patted her back. Brava then startled him by making him promise that they would marry and have lots of babies as soon as they could, the kiss she so passionately locked onto his lips left him promising her anything she wanted the heat and passion of her embrace almost knocked him off his feet.

Badr came out and asked Brava what was going on after a quick nod in Kesley’s direction. Brava broke the news to him that Baako was dead, he had drowned down at the beach, as to Kesley he was now a member of the family and would be her husband once she recovered from loosing Baako. Badr heard Kesley mumble apologies about picking the wrong day to move in. Both Brava and Badr hushed him and told him not to worry about it.

:( game problems – there will be a delay before the next chapter is up

Long story short I decided to give CAW a try a few weeks ago ………game is so borked all thanks to CAW, I’ve gotten it to load about 3 times since using caw using the clear caches trick mentioned, about … Continue reading →

Dragons! …… Baby Dragons!

4/23/13 update adding the video link Also on an unrelated note, I had a paper due this week and our daughter is getting married this coming weekend so there may not be any updates until the beginning of May.