mingle post? mingle post. MINGLE POST!!

[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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[payback]

Nooo... [She pauses in card-placing to shoot him a swift look.]

What is it?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[since he's not shy about this kind of thing, he spontaneously... sings a few lines of a song that he knows:]

Cuckoos lay eggs inside other birds' houses, that's how their children grow strong,
wise parents know when to grant their young freedom, who says the cuckoos are wrong?
Mother was human, but father wore feathers, he hasn't been seen since he flew,
And I am the child of their very strange union, and I have been left here with you...

[payback]

[She listens to this... it kind of makes her smile. What a weird, possibly grim? little song...]

Should I be flattered or insulted?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Ah, flattered. I don't name inconsequential people.

[he settles on down, finally looking at their game again--oh, he rushes in to make a move. they're running low on cards.]

[payback]

[She folds her hands back to let him do the card thing. Robin can finish by himself if he wants.]

That song makes cuckoos sound scary...

[birdsbirdsbirds]

They are, a little...

[oh man look at him, he'll do the thing... he'll set those cards down. there's just a couple more in their deck, and then... they just need to be put on the ace piles...]

[payback]

Do you think I'm scary?

[She watches this happen... and then raises her hands. Clap, clap. You did it, Robin. You won solitaire.]

[birdsbirdsbirds]

A little...

[oh. ...huh. he leans back.]

Did I do it? Is this how the game ends?

[payback]

[She makes a tiny face. Why would anyone think she was scary? No entiende...]

You did it. You won. That's it.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Hey, nice! [all right! he grins. forget everything he was just saying--holds his hand up for a high-five!]

[payback]

[She looks at him, mouth and eyes softening with amusement, raises her hand and give him a high five as bid.]

You understand the game now?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Yeah, I think so. Seems easy enough.

[stretching and leaning back...]

Not a bad way to pass time.

[payback]

Yeah...

[She starts patting the cards back into one deck again.]

I lived in a boarding house in the Port for a while. That's where I learned all these. We played all kinds of games there.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Not bad. [he just. watches her.] Show me another one sometimes?

[payback]

Sure... we can teach Nel or something.

[She smiles a little. Ah, memories...]

Most of them are the most fun with at least three people.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Good. The more the merrier...

[he smiles at her for... just a moment longer than he needs to, before he remembers something--]

Oh, hey, I was going to ask you about those tallbirds!

[payback]

Yeah?

[Doop doop the cards are collected and slid back into their box. Game all gone. She taps the box and then closes it, blinking at him.]

What about them?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Have you seen them yet? [this face.] Aren't they ridiculous?