the animorphs

[instar]

Renée is gone in the morning, a pot of maple oatmeal for the girls and Trouble cooling on the stove and a note on the fridge, she's going to be gone all day on a day trip to Tucson with her friends.

Andi wakes up first. Bella's not far behind.

Comments

[aeskhyne]

He shrugs. "Nah, if you do we'll probably just start making out again; stick around while I finish this and then we can do some more science."

[instar]

"Okay. One thing I was trying to figure out is how morphing interacts with breathing. Me and Andi noted that we continue breathing while morphing, occasionally with a moment of changeover between systems - we didn't have enough trials to see if we can reliably demorph with our lungs full of air, which would be really handy if we could do it every time, for underwater if we ever need to do things underwater. If you could keep an eye on that that would be useful, although it's the kind of observation you can make any time you morph so it's not worth dividing your attention if the experiments you're actually here to do are distracting."

[aeskhyne]

"Ooh," says Trouble. "Yeah. I'll try it some other time."

[instar]

Bella nods, and sits down, and goes and annotates her notes so far.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble drinks his iced tea.

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan eyes him speculatively.

[instar]

"Penny for your thoughts."

[palmofyourhand]

"Who, me? Just wondering what to break first."

[instar]

"It's really very convenient that we have someone willing to perform the experiment."

[palmofyourhand]

"Isn't it?" he agrees.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble beams.

[instar]

"Have you decided," Bella inquires delicately, "what to break first?"

[palmofyourhand]

"Mm, not quite."

[instar]

"Okay. Can you break things with your bare hands or should I go scrounging for instruments of blunt trauma?"

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan giggles. "Oh, scrounge for instruments, by all means, I can't imagine that making it any less fun."

[aeskhyne]

Trouble laughs and keeps drinking his iced tea, slowly.

[instar]

"I think we have a hammer."

[aeskhyne]

"Ooh," says Trouble. "Yeah, bring the hammer."

[instar]

Bella goes looking for the hammer. It takes her three minutes to find; the garage is kind of a mess.

[aeskhyne]

When she comes back, Trouble has finished his iced tea and is kissing Ethan again.

[instar]

Bella coughs politely.

[aeskhyne]

He disengages. "Hi, Bella!"

[palmofyourhand]

"I'll take that, thanks," says Ethan, reaching for the hammer.

[instar]

She hands it over, and sits down, and flips her notebook open again.

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan eyes Trouble some more.