emilou
Friendly Neighborhood Gremlin
The girl smoothed back and ran her fingers through the bouncy curls of her hair, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. Hearing him question her on her cooking skills, she nodded. "I worked with my father in a kitchen my whole life, it's just about one of the only things I did." She offered a somewhat half-assed smile, obviously still a little tender on the topic of her father, now that the idea of him dying has been pushed into her mind.
Feeling the less-warm breeze slow before stopping, she frowned gently, knowing her hair being heavier and thicker, it would just make her sweat and would fall with the heat. Knowing they had the time, she moved her hands back to part her hair into two sections, and begin braiding two tight, thick braids that would fall to just below her shoulders in length. Nikkole listened to the sound of the world that surrounded the two of them, the silence that fell like a thick fog over the world, allowing the tiniest of sounds to be heard; The scatter of a rat going across the old linoleum flooring, the caws of far-off birds, and other various sounds of nature, hard to explain; With the creatures that now roam the Earth from chems and radiation, nobody knew what could be making certain sounds.
Feeling the less-warm breeze slow before stopping, she frowned gently, knowing her hair being heavier and thicker, it would just make her sweat and would fall with the heat. Knowing they had the time, she moved her hands back to part her hair into two sections, and begin braiding two tight, thick braids that would fall to just below her shoulders in length. Nikkole listened to the sound of the world that surrounded the two of them, the silence that fell like a thick fog over the world, allowing the tiniest of sounds to be heard; The scatter of a rat going across the old linoleum flooring, the caws of far-off birds, and other various sounds of nature, hard to explain; With the creatures that now roam the Earth from chems and radiation, nobody knew what could be making certain sounds.