Sphinx wheeled herself out from underneath the machine she was currently working on and grabbed the cloth off the work bench nearby. Quickly wiping the oil and dirt off her face and hands she laid the cloth back down and returned to her work.
A loud buzzing noise suddenly reverberated throughout the house. Bzzzzzzzzzz! Bzz! Bzz! Bzzz! Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! it wailed as the door button was repeatedly pushed. Sphinx heaved an irritated sigh and trudged to the door. She'd just gotten a spare moment from her usual activities of the day to work on her own private hobbies. She wasn't a very well off gaian, she barely found enough to scrape by every day though she frequented the forums regularly, so spare time for her not only rare, but precious.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" she bellowed, irritatedly, as she approached the door. Her hand had barely touched the doorknob when the door flew open of its own accord. In flew her neighbor from down the street with cropped freshly dyed white hair, a monotone striped shirt, and black tundra boots all the while waving a large checkered flag. "AEKEA FTW!" she cried as she ran halfheartedly into the house.
Sphinx closed the door, exposing herself from behind it and muttered, "Laphelliae, to what do I owe this pleasure in my only spare moment?"
"Spare?!" Laphelliae cried this with her eyes opened wide, as if she'd just muttered chatspeech or myspacer talk. "You have no spare time now!" Sphinx cocked a brown. "THE REJECTED OLYMPICS! you must help fight for the Aekea cause!"
Sphinx leisurely walked past the eccentric girl into the main room and sat down on the large started set leather couch seat she'd positioned in the corner and took out her pipe. "Laphy, honey, I'm not into those sorts of things."
"NOT-INTO-THEM?" Laphelliae's left eye twitched. A habitual movement, the girl didn't even know she had this unfortunate habit. " WHERE IS YOUR AEKEA PRIDE?!" she bellowed. "You HAVE to compete!"
Sphinx took a puff of her pipe and a deep breath before standing up again and approaching the girl. She stood a good foot taller, but Laphelliae didn't seem daunted by her small disposition.
"Bye." As sphinx formed the word she swiftly turned her eccentric neighbor around and swiftly pushed her out the door.
"SPHINX YOU HAVE TO-" the words were muffled by the door as Sphinx slammed it shut. Taking a puff of her pipe she returned to her chair. The girl's words seemed to have had an effect on her. She was an avid supporter of Aekea, and she hadn't competed in the water balloon fight of last summer because she had been out of town. She did have an obligation.
Having an irritated sigh sphinx heaved herself up from the chair and put out her pipe. She grabbed the Aekea flag from the door way, where she kept it, and took the back entrance out.
Sphinx of Akhenaten Community Member 
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