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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:34:28 GMT -5
Alya sat back, "Cook, more eel please," she yelled, not wanting to roll out of her seat. "Do you want anything?" she asked Ithilwen and the twins.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:35:35 GMT -5
Ithilwen smiled, but shook her head no. The twins, on the other hand, were more than happy to head to the kitchen, looking for sweets. Ithilwen shook her head. "Not too many!" she yelled in.
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:36:59 GMT -5
Alya laughed, "they can have as many as they want," she said, low enough so they couldn't hear her. She began to feel sick again. She grabbed her stomach and moaned, "Gah! Stupid pain," she said, cursing under her breath.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:39:27 GMT -5
Ithilwen smiled, knowingly. The whole nudity thing was something she had never gone through, but the pain was still vivid in her memory, two decades later. "Just hold still until it passes," she advised.
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:41:29 GMT -5
She sat up straight as a board, pressing slighlty with her hand until it passed. She lay back in the seat, "Sweet Eru, tell me that goes away soon," she said, looking at Ithilwen, hoping it was a phase. Alya had never handled pain very well.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:43:42 GMT -5
Ithilwen was having to fight a laugh. "If you think that's bad, wait until the actual birth!" she said. "Although you stop having pain within a month or two. At least, I did."
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:48:02 GMT -5
She nodded, dreading the actual birth. But she had months to prepair for that. "Look at me, I'm huge. Ithilwen, you were NOT this fat," she said, motioning to her belly with both hands for affect.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:48:55 GMT -5
Ithilwen snorted. "No, I was not," she said. "But by this point in my pregnancy I was also severely malnourished and had bigger things to worry about."
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:50:34 GMT -5
Alya sat forward, "Great, so I'm going to be huge," she said, shaking her head. "I've never been fat, I was always skinny. I don't like being fat," she told her, getting frustrated, feeling tears come to her eyes. Oh great, she was gonna cry again!
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:52:34 GMT -5
Ithilwen put her arm around her sister's shoulder. "It's okay!" she said. "You're not fat, you're just pregnant. There is a difference!"
Just then, Agalos came in from the kitchen, mouth and hands clean but tongue unnaturally red from something sweet and that would keep him wired for hours. "Nana," he said. "Why is Aunt Alya naked? And how did she get fat?"
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:53:54 GMT -5
Alya began sobbing, "See, I told you I'm fat," she cried into Ithilwen's shoulder. "Why, why do I have to be so fat?" she cried.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 21:56:42 GMT -5
Ithilwen glared arrows at her son, but comforted her sister with a sweet voice. "It's okay!" she said. "He doesn't understand the difference -- how could he? Goodness, Alya, two years ago he wouldn't touch Laur because one of his friends told him girls had cooties! Pregnancy is perfectly natural and very beautiful."
Now it was Agalos' turn to glare at his mother. He was so over the cooties thing.
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 21:59:17 GMT -5
Alya continued to cry. It wasn't any use to try to stop that nonescence. She had tried before, but she had no control over her body. She tried taking deep breaths, but it only seemed to make it worse.
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Post by Caitlin on Jul 16, 2005 22:04:02 GMT -5
Landion swore to himself. He forgot to bring his bracers! Still shaking his head, and lost in his own thoughts, he walked in on quite a scene.
His wife was sitting there, completely naked, crying. Her sister was trying to soothe him, while at the same time glaring at his nephew. His nephew was glaring back at his mother, while also oggling his wife.
"Dare I ask?" he said.
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Post by Adge on Jul 16, 2005 22:05:33 GMT -5
Alya looked up, and began crying harder. "I'M FAT," she wailed. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to be so fat," she said, as if she could help it. "I'm fat," she repeated.
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