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Oct 21, 2023 9:32:01 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 21, 2023 9:32:01 GMT -5
She took a minute as she held her plane ticket in her hand. "Well here goes nothing," she said as she looked over the data base entry and then dialed the number. "Come on pick up," she said as she waited to see. "Surely she will be slightly interested." The truth was that Lyra only had two missions being here and her main one went to her father, the one she knew where she was from. "Hello? Hello? Am I even using this phone right?" she said as her phone floated in front of her. "Hey, are you there?" Amber Louise Stephenson
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Oct 21, 2023 13:43:17 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Oct 21, 2023 13:43:17 GMT -5
Amber had just handed baby Lyra and Levi back to their mother after the work day. So was settling down to a coffee while she waited for her dinner to cook in the oven. The phone rang and she picked it up saying "Hello. Amber Stephenson speaking". It wasn't a number on her contact list. Lyra Ashford
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Oct 22, 2023 11:35:52 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 22, 2023 11:35:52 GMT -5
Oh it was working as she spoke into it. "Amber it's me Lyra." Seriously how could not one recognize her and then she realized she was still small here. "Oh right I have not went through my weird teenage phase yet, so Amber they will not let me get on this plane because they say that I am not allowed though I am an Ashford, I need you to come here and help me get on this plane. I mean you watch me so your word and signature should work." She was the easy one to get along with or so she thought. "Besides, I need to get on this plane so I can finish making my invention, girl power and all that. Will you come help me please? One woman to another woman this is not how they need to treat me." Amber Louise Stephenson
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Oct 23, 2023 16:23:57 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Oct 23, 2023 16:23:57 GMT -5
Amber did have ARI Id and perhaps influence but she had heard about the back to the future stuff that was going and a Lyra from the future. Which meant at this time she was still the baby she had just handed over to Avery. “I won’t be long be long Lyra. I only just handed your baby self to your mother but I can help you out. Sit tight and I’ll be at the airport before long” she replied. So once the call was over she took out her dinner and would get it later. So she drove to the airport figuring that Lyra would have a similar hair colour at least to the baby she knew. Then hoped she’d find her at the check in area. Lyra Ashford
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Oct 24, 2023 7:51:16 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 24, 2023 7:51:16 GMT -5
She took a second and she spoke. "Okay thank you!" Lyra really did consider herself a good person but these people turning down an Ashford, what in the hell? She was going to give them a proper lashing when she got back and those yelp stars zero, zilch! Still once she spotted Amber she waved. "Hi!!" she said as she smiled. "Come on time to get them to give me access so I can get the parts for my time machine!" Hey, a technopath pretty much she was shooting for the stars. "So when I finish this time machine, I am going on a trip into the future even more than now. I have to know if we ever get those flying cars!" Amber Louise Stephenson
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Oct 24, 2023 8:42:46 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Oct 24, 2023 8:42:46 GMT -5
A dependence on the database was a weakness when it came to people who weren't supposed to be in this time line; it was Lyra that found her and she could identify her by the facial features. These stayed pretty constant from the baby features she knew well. So the first impression were good. She seemed more brighter and friendlier than her mother but just as forward thinking and sure of herself. "It's good to see you grown up Lyra. And a time machine? We don't even have hoverboards yet but an electric car is at least closer to a flying one" she cheerfully said. "Alright then, lets sort this out" as she had pictures of Levi and Lyra on her mobile phone that must look quite antiquated compared to what was available in the future. She also showed the supervisor her ARI id which showed she was effectively a PA for Avery; an effective job title on top of being listed as a nanny in the database. The cute baby photo she had on her phone still matched what was on the database as of now and this got cleared up in short order. The DNA and facial match proved to be sufficent and a temporary fix was at least done for the time Lyra would be in this timeline. Lyra Ashford
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Oct 27, 2023 8:23:10 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 27, 2023 8:23:10 GMT -5
"Yeah. I mean I doubt it will ever work especially considering this weird energy in parts of the island but time seems to also be fluid in some parts of this island. I am trying to see if Hunter gets his ability back," she said. "So many of us came through and he seems effected the most and from what I can tell it is not magic yet but something is wrong with his dna so it is apart of my job as his sister in a round about way to find out what it is." She did do more than that though. "Are we good for you? Levi seems to come into liking drawing, art, maybe that is because of you?" Amber Louise Stephenson
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Oct 29, 2023 3:34:42 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Oct 29, 2023 3:34:42 GMT -5
Amber even when was a child’s nanny for a short time always tried to show the arts. So she must have had a lot longer with Lyra and Levi to make a deeper impression on them. She also had a feeling that they would have been the most likely to stay at home given their mother was the effective queen of the island. Things also worked in reverse as she replied “as a nanny I do show the children in my care all those things. Even a love of the musicals. I will be and was responsible for your early education by the sounds of it but you clearly took after your mothers skill sets. Your Time Machine might work better elsewhere if the future is stable enough for oddity kind”. She was fully on their side even before coming here so she must have stayed a long time on Ashford Isle but that was the future for her and prying for details might be a bad idea. She did consider the question of Hunter as well. “I hope you succeed in helping Hunter as well. Something in the future I don’t know of yet might have caused that and that ripple of time didn’t kick in until he went back. I read some of the theories and time travel is not simple and there can be consequences of your interactions and past actions. Staying away from your baby selves still seems to work for now” she added. Yes Lyra had turned out well and loving her as a baby meant she couldn’t help but care for her now. Lyra Ashford
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Oct 29, 2023 10:37:39 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 29, 2023 10:37:39 GMT -5
She turned and looked at her. "A bit, my mother is compulsive and money driven where as I am more driven for the help of society. I don't see one race or another as far as oddity and human but more so one world kind," she said as she thought. "It might but that would require syphoning magic from either Taylor, Gillian, Jacob, or Cami." She thought. "Do you think either one of them would allow me to have some magic?" Amber Louise Stephenson
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Oct 29, 2023 16:24:25 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Oct 29, 2023 16:24:25 GMT -5
Amber wondered who would be more able to donate magic. Thankfully Lyra had an idea of whom could contribute but she only really knew Taylor. A guy with a lot on his plate right now according to what Madison told her. “I don’t know about Cami as I don’t know her that well. Taylor might but Jacob or Gillian might be better to ask. They came through the same time you did” she suggested. So Lyra was looking at the bigger picture which might mean the world she knew was better than this one. Lyra Ashford
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Oct 31, 2023 9:47:55 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Oct 31, 2023 9:47:55 GMT -5
"I see a lot of prospect here Amber but I also know that said and same prospect will take time but if I can help while I am here I seen no reason that it would mess anything up because nothing is going to speed through. You look as well and put together as baby me starts to eventually remember. I do hope that I do not give you too much of a hard time when I am younger." Amber Louise Stephenson
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Nov 2, 2023 11:34:42 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Nov 2, 2023 11:34:42 GMT -5
Amber wasn't a scientist the same way Madison had turned out to be; her friend still had a great tennis game and actually improved on it. "This island is a refuge for oddity kind and will continue to be so. Hopefully its still that way in the future so any help you can give while you are here will be good" she replied. "Your brother and yourself are good babies now. There's somethings the little Lyra won't be able to help like getting sick and teething but the teething happens later on. You don't need to worry about that" Amber added with a smile. All babies and children went through some of the same things. Oddity children had to deal with more but not usually at the baby stage. Lyra Ashford
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Nov 3, 2023 13:29:47 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Nov 3, 2023 13:29:47 GMT -5
"I see," she said. A refuge was a good thing at least that was the way that she seen it. "Yeah getting sick helps to build the immunity system and I imagine even as oddity babies we do things that other babies do to, some of our simple things might seem to move faster but we are babies all the same," she said as she stepped outside and seen the plane with her carts. "Finally," she said. She made her way over and then stopped to wait on Amber. "These are my pieces, I am going to have them pulled back to the research facility and then examine them and go from there. I mean that research center is there for a reason right?" Amber Louise Stephenson
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Nov 8, 2023 1:34:55 GMT -5
Post by Amber Louise Stephenson on Nov 8, 2023 1:34:55 GMT -5
Amber followed Lyra and couldn’t deny the logic of the question. ARI was there for that reason as well as other research as she replied “that is the point of ARI and while I’ve barely scratched the surface of it a lot does happen there that dosen’t elsewhere”. Frankly just knowing that was enough for her. She didn’t need to go deeper. Then she added “I haven’t really been in the database that much but an oddity baby tends to be like their normal counterpart. Most of the time anyway but some abilities can start to show even then”. Most of the time they got sick, slept, explored and did cute baby things. They also cried for her attention but that was her job. Lyra Ashford
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Nov 9, 2023 13:44:27 GMT -5
Post by Lyra Ashford on Nov 9, 2023 13:44:27 GMT -5
"See this is why I like you. I am glad that you are so logical because not everyone is and for that reason alone sometimes it can be hard to understand someone else's point of view but not now." She took a second and stopped. "I need the time travel to work not because of some fantasy of mine but because of the accomplishment that I would feel." Amber Louise Stephenson
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