<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://s300.photobucket.com/user/SociallyToxicBeauty/media/f9baa897-e285-4e2a-92b5-e0eb263a67ea.jpg.html"></a><a class="postlink" href="http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn24/SociallyToxicBeauty/f9baa897-e285-4e2a-92b5-e0eb263a67ea.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/><span style="color: #408000"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Alida</span></span></span></div><br/><br/>Alida was suddenly rolled out of her warm blanket by Izu, who then began to cover her in odd garbs. She struggled the entire way, disliking the feeling of clothing on her. He took a step back and looked at her with a frown,<span style="color: #FF0000">"Great. Now you look homeless. Fantastic."</span>Alida looked down at herself and frowned as well. She didn't know why Izu insisted on putting these strange items on her. When she looked up, she saw that he was doing the same--which made her feel a little better. Perhaps it was custom in this place people wear the strange garbs...?<br/><br/>Alida perked up immediately when the sound of the door filtered through her ears and she recognized her name on Izu's lips. She came bouncing into the room and out the door, Izu helping her get down the stairs as she was strangely disoriented. He brought her to an odd open space with metal sculptures about. It was cold outside and she shivered, but it didn't stop her from exploring.<br/><br/>With hesitant steps, she began to look around, fascinated by the objects around her. She went over to a metal canister and took the lid off, only to wrinkle her nose and slam the lid back down as she tried not to gag. The smell was awful. A bird swooped down and landed next to Alida, cocking its head to the side as it observed her. She, with a similar amount of interest, looked down at the feathered creature and a grin split across her face. She bent down and the bird hopped into her hand, chirping a little as it went. She gently stroked the top of its head and turned to look at Izu who was standing in the distance with a bored expression and his hands in his pockets.<span style="color: #408000">"Izu! Izu!"</span>she called out, coming towards him in a light jog. She thrust the bird into his view and the bird took a small step backwards in her hands, though did not fly away.<br/><br/>Alida had never seen such a small bird before. Where she was from birds were very large, so to see one so small was astounding to her. It was painfully adorable and Alida's eyes were large and full of wonderment at the little creature. She wondered what name the creature went by in this world, and she looked up to Izu with curiosity. "Izu?" she said his name in question, but she looked back down at the bird in effort to relay her desire to know what it was called.<br/><br/>The bird took off then and Alida cried out in dismay,<span style="color: #408000">"Dreh ni lif!" </span>She didn't want the bird to go, but it seemed the bird had not liked being around Izu that much. Alida pouted, then looked up to Izu sadly, digging a toe into the dirt. Alida was never really good with rejection, having never really faced it before--so between the rough nature of Izu and the bird's take off, she was rather sad. She gave a sigh and dropped herself to the ground, gently laying backwards so as not to hurt her wing any further and stared up at the sky. Geese flew overhead and she watched them in wonderment, only to cover her ears as a plane passed over, her wide eyes shutting.<br/><br/>She didn't seem to like the plane at all as she left her hands over her ears for a few moments even after it had gone. Slowly she brought her hands back down to lay on the ground when she realized that the strange and loud creature that had flown overhead was not going to hurt her. Her eyes drifted back to Izu's bored form as he looked down at her. Her stomach growled but she did not seem to react to it.