[ IKKI DOESN'T PLAY YOUR MIND GAMES, SHIKAMARU. :T THAT WOULD REQUIRE PLAYING MIND GAMES. ]
Okay! This is the story about the white shell. And! [ She reaches to pick up the picture he'd put aside, laying that on top of the treasures, putting the sea shell on top of it. ] ...And this is the story of the picture, too.
Once upon a time - [ because she knows how to start this sort of thing ] - last year - [ ...sort of. ] - there was a little girl. ...Actually, there were two little girls! One of them had been in a magical world for a while. The other one just got there, when the story starts. Um...we'll call them a little nomad girl and a little pirate girl.
[ Because MYSTERIOUS!!! is important, not that it isn't blatantly obvious what she's talking about here. ]
The little nomad girl woke up near a fountain, when she got to the magical world. It was a really pretty fountain - in fact, it'd only get prettier later on 'cause they'd paint a mural around it a little after she got there, but that's not this story. In this story, she was playing in the water. She did that a lot during the day even though some people said there were fountain police which by the way she knows there aren't now on account of they've never arrested her SHIKAMARU.
[ >8C Think about what you've done. ]
...But anyway, one of the people she met when she was playing was the little pirate girl. The little pirate girl had blue hair like the sky, and she asked the little nomad girl about how she bent the air, and the little nomad girl asked the little pirate girl about her world, too. They talked for a long time and played together and decided that even though neither of them had their families there - or, well, they had families, but the nomad girl didn't have her sister or her brothers or her parents, and the little pirate girl didn't have her father or her duck - they had families that were taking care of them. And they could be sisters!
[ Best sisters! Ikki's smile goes softer, but she keeps talking in the same animated fashion. ] They did a lot together. There was a birthday party - not for either of them, but for a lady who grew oranges - with pinwheels, and paper flowers - [ she touches the orange-and-red paper flower in the box, with a grin ] - and another birthday party, at the beach, where they collected shells together. [ She taps the white shell. ] ...And other things that the sea washed up. [ The blue sea glass, the second thing he'd picked up.
He'd gotten everything but the flower, the things that meant "Vivi". ]
They even had a big cake together one day! To celebrate how they were best sisters.
...And then one day, it turned out the little pirate girl? Wasn't a little girl, after all. [ Because the OP cast will never be children except to troll Ikki. ] But even though she grew up and remembered she wasn't small, she remembered stuff from before. And the older pirate girl gave the little nomad girl this picture, which she'd drawn when she was a little girl, too. And she said they could still be sisters, even though she wasn't a child any longer.
Months after that, she left, though. But even though she went away, the things she did and said still stayed behind, and that's why these things are treasures!
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Okay! This is the story about the white shell. And! [ She reaches to pick up the picture he'd put aside, laying that on top of the treasures, putting the sea shell on top of it. ] ...And this is the story of the picture, too.
Once upon a time - [ because she knows how to start this sort of thing ] - last year - [ ...sort of. ] - there was a little girl. ...Actually, there were two little girls! One of them had been in a magical world for a while. The other one just got there, when the story starts. Um...we'll call them a little nomad girl and a little pirate girl.
[ Because MYSTERIOUS!!! is important, not that it isn't blatantly obvious what she's talking about here. ]
The little nomad girl woke up near a fountain, when she got to the magical world. It was a really pretty fountain - in fact, it'd only get prettier later on 'cause they'd paint a mural around it a little after she got there, but that's not this story. In this story, she was playing in the water. She did that a lot during the day even though some people said there were fountain police which by the way she knows there aren't now on account of they've never arrested her SHIKAMARU.
[ >8C Think about what you've done. ]
...But anyway, one of the people she met when she was playing was the little pirate girl. The little pirate girl had blue hair like the sky, and she asked the little nomad girl about how she bent the air, and the little nomad girl asked the little pirate girl about her world, too. They talked for a long time and played together and decided that even though neither of them had their families there - or, well, they had families, but the nomad girl didn't have her sister or her brothers or her parents, and the little pirate girl didn't have her father or her duck - they had families that were taking care of them. And they could be sisters!
[ Best sisters! Ikki's smile goes softer, but she keeps talking in the same animated fashion. ] They did a lot together. There was a birthday party - not for either of them, but for a lady who grew oranges - with pinwheels, and paper flowers - [ she touches the orange-and-red paper flower in the box, with a grin ] - and another birthday party, at the beach, where they collected shells together. [ She taps the white shell. ] ...And other things that the sea washed up. [ The blue sea glass, the second thing he'd picked up.
He'd gotten everything but the flower, the things that meant "Vivi". ]
They even had a big cake together one day! To celebrate how they were best sisters.
...And then one day, it turned out the little pirate girl? Wasn't a little girl, after all. [ Because the OP cast will never be children except to troll Ikki. ] But even though she grew up and remembered she wasn't small, she remembered stuff from before. And the older pirate girl gave the little nomad girl this picture, which she'd drawn when she was a little girl, too. And she said they could still be sisters, even though she wasn't a child any longer.
Months after that, she left, though. But even though she went away, the things she did and said still stayed behind, and that's why these things are treasures!
Know who that was about?