Thinking of the past /open]

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Holland managed to get his thoughts on his past again, though not uncommon for him as he stepped through the farmilliar over grown gardens of the home he rented. Well, it was more he was paid to keep up the gardens so he staied in the house.

As he walked he let out a small sigh as well as moved a hand to his chocolate brown hair, the hand running through said hair. Holland let his bottem lip fit itself into to the space between his white teeth, said teeth nibbling on the lip as he looked around for his gardening tools, so he could trim up a few of the flowers and bushs.

A grumble passed his lips when he noticed that, once again, the vines had grown to cover the door to the shed. "Oh, come on you lot, must I cut you down every time I make a trip out here?" he asked the vines as his hand withdrew his dagger from his belt and he began to hack at the vines, within moments the door was free and he could get in at his tools, well, what tools were inside the small shed.

As Holland worked be began to hum softly, the song that he hummed wasn't one that was known to humans, until he began to seeing it softly, gradully getting louder as he worked, finding his tools as he moved through the gardens.

[Hachiubi!!!^^]

[glow=red,2,300]Ralph trotted through the bush, the tube of green liquid hanging from his furry neck. His tail swished in the air as he went along, stirring up the air around him. The sun speckled through the canopy of the trees, they bounced off his coat softly. He had been going for some time, some uneventful time. But he had a purpose. He was going back home for a while. Not that he liked it a lot, but he kind of missed his brothers and maybe Alice. He smiled a little, thinking about their reactions to him coming home. His parents probably wouldn't care; they already had favorites. But he knew Alice would throw a fit and squeal and hug him until he died.

The smell of something came to his nose in the middle of his thinking and he stopped. His head turned left to right, trying to find where this smell was coming from. It was close, very close. Like it was just behind him..... He turned suddenly, the rear end of a person right in front of his wolfy face. He had the split thought of biting the rear end but he shook it, slinking a few feet behind the person. He shook his head, how had he not seen this. "This is what I get for daydreaming," he said to himself, getting his game face on. Most people around here, he had learned, didn't appreciate wolves, even if they were shape shifters. He was sure he would have a confrontation with this one.[/glow]

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Holland felt another around him, he glanced behind him to see a wolf, which was the first time he had ever seen one around where he lived, not that he paid close mind to them really at all, "Hello there, you, what are you doing wandering through the gardens?" he asked, not relising it was a person under all that fur.

Holland felt his hedge trimmers fall out of his hands, a moment later he felt the sharp stab of the evil things snagging at the skin of his foot though his shoes. He yelped anf fell to the side before a blush of embarassment came to his cheeks, "I'm sorry for that, I just can't seem to keep my grip today." he muttered with a small bow of his head.

The demon boy staggered to a kneel, the trimmers on the other side of gardens by now. And he just sat there, watched the wolf, fasinated by the creature, like a infant with a snowflake. Holland felt his right arm ache a bit with the urge to reach out and pet the wolf, but he held back, not wanting to get bitten.

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[glow=red,2,300] The first thing that came to Ralph was confusion. This person had actually greeted him instead of just shooing him away as other had. The second thing that came to him was laughter. And he did, falling over on his back and laughing loudly. Giving himself away. That thought came a little too late and he couldn't really do anything about it as his sides ached from the laughing.
When he was able to control himself, he sighed. "Oh crap," he said to himself, standing up, "I gave myself away....again..." His body shape shifted back to human form and he stood above Holland, giving him a side-ways look. "You should be more careful," he told him, yawning and stretching. He held out his hand, offering it. "My name's Ralph," he said, "What's yours kid?"
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Holland nodded lightly, taking the hand and smiling a slight, "I'm Holland Daystar." moving to stand quickly, a flush of embarrassment gracing his cheeks. "Uhh, I'm really sorry I didn't know you were a shape shifter," Holland bowed his head in apoligy.

His hands griped the trimmers a littel tightly as he glaced around them, this dallying wasn't going to get the gardens tended to, but he'd manage to get it done sooner or later, though a sigh wasn't restrained before it fell past his lips.

[Hachiubi!!!^^]

[glow=red,2,300] Ralph nodded in acknowledgment to Holland then looked around. It seemed to be some sort of garden they were in. And he wasn't one for plants. He could remember a time where he had tried to make a flower grow. It died the next day when he came to check on it. He was more of a black thumb to plants then a green thumb. He shook his head slightly to his own joke.
"So you plant?" he asked looking around. A pretty obvious question but he couldn't think of anything else at the moment he wanted to ask. The wind blew making the trees move and brush against each other making a rustling sound. Ralph closed his eyes and listened to it; his arms behind his head as he leaned against a tree growing nearby. It had always been a nice sound to him, partly because he was use to it where he lived and partly because it was just so relaxing to him. Made him feel like there was nothing else in the world. And for a few short moments, he did.[/glow]

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Holland nodded, "Mhm, it's kida how i get to keep the house I live in, I'm renting untill i can save up to buy it." he said, a bit on the rambling side of his nervousness but he didn't notice until he felt like he was boring the man that had lent on the tree. "Umm, would you like to come inside?" he offered, trying to be polite and failing horridly.

Holland wasn't good at manners, he was good at cleaning and gardening, mostly, and he lived practically in isolation, so he didn't use his manner skills often enough to use them that well. The boy made sure his tools were hidden agian, by kicking them under the bush, and kept his eyes on Ralph, he was extreamly intresting to him.

[Hachiubi!!!^^]

[glow=red,2,300] Ralph opened one of his eyes. "I see," he said, standing up, "My folks don't live very far from here. It's hidden in the forest." He cocked his head at Holland's offer. "I guess..." he started hearing his stomach growl, "If ya got anything to eat, that'd be nice to." With that, he took on his wolf form and stared up at Holland with brown eyes and wagged his tail as encouragement to lead on.[/glow]

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Holland smiled widely at the growls he heard from the other mans stomach, "I've got plenty to eat," the boy said as he turned on a heel and started along the winding path to the house, them having been preally far back in the garden.

Holland opened the back door to the house. A light green it was, clashing, almost, with the dark blue of the outter walls of the building. As then entered he glanced about, hoping to the highest flames of his homeland that the place was as clean as he had left it earlier.

Holland strode over to the table, which was located in the dinning room, the room the back door opened up to. the walls were a dark gray, though none too dreary for the pantings and photos on the walls kept the eyes off of them. "Well, what yould you like to eat?" he asked the wolf from his palce standing by the table.

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[glow=red,2,300] "Well, I'm happy to know that." Ralph got up on all fours and pranced after Holland. It was only a few minutes until they got to the house. Inside was a flash of green light, comparing to the little tube of green liquid around his neck. He jumped up on the table, looking around the house. It was relatively clean. He looked around then at Holland who asked him what he wanted. His wolf brain automatically dreamed up a big T-bone steak with the all the fat and trimmings.
But if there was one thing that Alice and his mother had beat into him, it was manners.....in other people's houses at least. "What ever ya got," Ralph said and shrugged, "Doesn't matter to me." But his wolf-side whimpered in protest.[/glow]

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Holland laughed gently and nodded slightly, "I think I know what you want. Some sort of meat?" he asked as he stepped to the right of him, watch led to a shining white kitchen. Holland walked to the refridgerator and pulled out a slab of raw meat, considering cooking it but he would ask first. "Ralph, would you like me to cook it for you?" he asked, his voice loud so the other couls hear him in the other room.

[Hachiubi!!!^^]

[glow=red,2,300] "Doesn't matter," Ralph called, his eyes looking around. He sat on the chair, looking around, awaiting Holland's return.[/glow]

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Holland smiled as he gathered up the meat on to a plate and carried it out to Ralph, the raw meat being placed infront of the shape shifter. Holland took a step back and asked after a few moments, "so what made you come wandering through the gardens?" his head tilted to the side wolfishly.

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[glow=red,2,300] As soon as the meat was set down in front of him, Ralph went for it. He took the big steak from the table and went to the floor, lay down and started to chew on it. His ear pricked up at Holland's question and he quickly swallowed what was in his mouth to answer. "I'm actually gonna go visit my house," he said, "It's a little ways away from here. Hidden under some dense forests. My brothers are probably there now; we all make the same trip at the same time."
He took another rip at the meat, chewing swallowing and continued, "Alice is probably gonna freak when she sees us. She's the only one of us that isn't a shape shifter but she takes it pretty well. She always seems to hover over us while we're there. But I guess that's a girl thing." He shrugged, continuing on his meat.[/glow]

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Holland nodded slightly, thinking a moment before he went to ask another question, but held his tounge ot allow his guest to eat in peace. Holland watched the toher man with pleased eyes, he had never seen any one eat raw steak, well, unless you count his father eating human flesh off the bone as raw meat. A smile cracked his thoughtful face for a moment as he watched Ralph eating.

Holland stood around for a few moments longer, then went back to the kitchen to get sometinhg to eat himself, it was aobut the time he had a snack any how. The boy walked back out, nibbling on fruit from the bowl on the counter, he looked at Ralph, still utterly facenated with him.