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[carreau]

Who: you
Broadcast: if you want
Action: also if you want
When: right. goddamn. now.

[ It's a mingle post. IN SPACE.

Just comment and tag around. ]

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[amarant]

[ She doesn't seem quite as scared as he might have wanted her to be. ]

Do they really? They don't look like they could.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[nah, he doesn't mind. he's happy, she's... okay, and everything's good. he just stands within conversational distance, looking at the bird that's trying to stare down Emblica...]

Oh, yeah. The guy over there were saying they can break bones.

They'll peck you pretty bad, too.

[amarant]

[ All's well here in birdland. The ostrich fluffs up a bit before finding something else to do with its life. ]

Interesting...if they can't fly, they must be able to make up for it somehow, right? Otherwise, they'd likely be extinct by now.

[ She wants to see what these weird tallbirds can do......... ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[delighted chuckling.]

It's true. Their bones must be very dense. They look ridiculous... Were you having a staring contest?

[amarant]

They do, don't they.

[ Laughing a bit. ]

No, I was watching it, and then it came over here...I must seem a bit confusing to it.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

I wonder if it thinks you're a predator... [he continues watching the bird... tilting his head a little in the direction that it walks...] But if they're raised in captivity, they might not even know what predators are...

[amarant]

Whoever owns them uses them for food. Even if they don't understand that fact, they do have predators..

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Then perhaps it was only wondering if you were a person, or another bird like them...

[...but he giggles again.] I can't believe that's a bird.

[amarant]

Or neither.

[ Maybe she means that the ones taking care of them aren't human. Maybe not.

But she laughs, almost in response to his own giggle. ]

It does make you wonder how they came about.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

It had to have been a freak accident. A science experiment gone wrong.

[he is musing... the first part will continue to clunk around in his brain, but for now he's quickly moving on to other things.]

Have you tried any snacks yet? Do you want anything?

[amarant]

[ That would be one explanation for it. ]

I'm not hungry right now, but maybe I will be later.

[ Everyone really seems to be enjoying the food, she's curious... ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

All right. When you are, I'd like to formally invite you out to have lunch with me.

[he says this with a small, honest-looking smile, spoken like it's not kind of weird to say out of the blue like that...]

[amarant]

Oh-- yes, that would be nice.

[ How long has it been since anyone's asked something like that? A long time.

She'll take the mask off to eat, of course. ]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Lovely. You've got my personal frequency, just ping me when you're in the mood.

[with that said, he'll... wander in a direction so that he can look at more stupid birds.]

[amarant]

[ She'll keep hanging around here for a while, but will actually be good and nice and ping him when the time is right! ]