Alder's Grove

Interlude: Kailani
by Lyn Thorne-Alder

“We’re not new kids anymore.” Kai looked around at the other Fifth Cohort students. Jamian was busy, but she’d talked Shahin into coming. Kendra was there, doing her best to hide in a corner; Channing was front and center. Elfred and Wyatt were there, along with Channing and Nydia. Kai had invited the entire Fifth Cohort. She was not really surprised that she’d gotten less than 50 percent attendance.

“He wasn’t a new kid last year, either. And he’s still wearing a collar.” Wyatt pointed a finger at Conrad. “What’s he doing here?”

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Kai frowned at the charts in front of her: genealogies, descriptions, birth dates and years. You could follow patterns easily enough down any given genealogy, but that wasn’t what was making her frown.

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The Meme Master Post

S is for the shore, and the sky, and the storm

I was going to do another piece of Things Unspoken for this, but:

a) I just posted one, and I like to wait for feedback before posting the next.

b) I'm waiting for a city name and it seems weird.

c) I've written about Nereids and Octopi and am a bit tapped on oceanic things

d) Sea-and-sky will always be Kailani to me.

(I am writing this in Written Kitten Sky, and this is the pic as I begin)

So I'm going to talk about Addergoole and Kailani.

Kailani was, as far as I can recall, the first character I came up with for Addergoole. Her name was almost certainly the first - it means "sea and sky" in Hawaiian, a name picked to suit her perfectly.

In the world Addergoole is set in - the Faerie Apocalypse - the names fae fathers give their children have, or are supposed to have, great meaning and significance. Every father spends some time in meditation - some take this duty far more seriously than others - contemplating their child's future. Even those who have not a bit of foresight will often gain some insight during this ritual, and those who take their duty seriously will use that insight in naming their child.

(Some don't. Aelfgar, for instance, who names his children things like "Elf-gift" (Aelgifu); Shadrach, who named his first two children after himself: Chander, Chandra).

Kailani's father knew what he was doing with her! Sea and Sky is a perfect name for this relatively stormy personality. She has a strong affinity for the water and the wind - both in terms of personality and in her magic. Her physical skills - dancing, fighting, riding - have a fluidity about them given to her by the water and the wind. And she will see calm at first, utterly laid-back, and then the storms will roll in and she will blow her top.

All of the main characters - and most of the background characters - in Addergoole have some story behind their name, but I'm the fondest of Kailani's, even now.

Here - Meeting the Parents, Moving in Together, and Crossover (Criminal Minds! With thanks to cluudle )

These are three more responses to clare_dragonfly 's prompts to my meme post here.

So a while ago I posted a meme, and I am slowly working my way through answering.

Kai/Rozen: Fake dating, Bodyswap, Sexpollen here

Kai/Rozen: Dark!Fic, Secret Kink, Their first Kiss here. content warning: the dark fic is dark, implied rape or torture preparation

This is in response to Sky's commission from my "Ack, Need Gas Money" commission drive. It is not currently canon, as it doesn't fit, but if I succeed in re-writing Addergoole, that might change.

It takes place in Year 5 of the Addergoole School, on Christmas.

“This year, for the day of Christmas, we are going to do something different.”

The cafeteria fell silent, the whole room seeming to hold its breath. Different? Director Regine did not do that. Different? On Christmas Eve?

“I do believe it will be most educational for you, and I do hope it will serve as a present to those who most need it.”

Kailani frowned. The wording’s patterns were wrong. Next to her, Conrad was frowning as well.
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This is a drabble of Kailani and Conrad, from Addergoole: TOS, during the time of Chapter one of Addergoole: Year 9


August 31, 2003

"Does it seem like..." Kailani paused to grab Alistair and pull his shirt back over his head. "...like we should be listening to Regine's speech again?"

Conrad, who had his hands full trying to get Audra's socks on, just laughed. "It's not like we weren't here last year, too."

"Last year, we hardly had time to think, and we were still fresh from school. This year..." She successfully got Alistair dressed. "No, Ali, keep it on. Crissy will be here any minute."

You could, she had learned, demand things of Regine. An au pair had been her first "request."