the ocean

[instar]

Five pigeons, one with a beetle glued to her foot, fly to Seattle and find the aquarium and the orca tanks.

There is one with just one orca in it.

Five pigeons land on the glass edge of the tank.

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[morphbox]

Ax gets up off the floor and picks up the French toast in his hands and crams most of the slice into his mouth. <I am uninjured! Toast!>

[aeskhyne]

...Trouble giggles.

[morphbox]

Ax half-eats, half-mauls his French toast, and then he steals Ethan's.

[palmofyourhand]

"D'you bloody mind? I was eating that," he says, giving Ax a look.

[morphbox]

<TOAST!> says Ax heedlessly.

[instar]

Bella cradles her head in her hands. "How much of this bread do we have," she mutters.

[aeskhyne]

"...Enough to feed everybody, but maybe not enough to feed everybody twice. Ax, man, slow down. Trust me, I know my French toast is awesome, but you are probably gonna be embarrassed about this later."

[morphbox]

"Mmf!" protests Ax around Ethan's French toast.

[instar]

"Ax," says Bella. "You can finish that, and then wash the syrup off your hands, and then go in the garage and demorph."

[morphbox]

Ax doesn't say "yes, Princess Bella", but he does slow down a little, eats Ethan's French toast with an orgasmic expression on his face, accepts Bella's wordless tutoring about the use of the kitchen sink, and goes into the garage to do what she said.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble silently replaces Ethan's French toast.

[hold_infinity]

Robin comes down the stairs and steals Ethan's plate.

[palmofyourhand]

...

He cracks up.

[morphbox]

<The human sensation of taste is very intense,> Ax reports solemnly from the garage.

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, I figured," snorts Trouble.

He supplies Ethan with yet another slice of French toast.

[morphbox]

<Are all foods as amazing as French toast?>

[aeskhyne]

"Some of them are better."

[morphbox]

<That is impossible,> says Ax faintly.

[aeskhyne]

"You know what," says Trouble, "when we've all got our generic human morphs, I am gonna take you on a food tour of Phoenix and show you just how wrong you are."

[instar]

"You and what money? I guess you could use your generic human morph to get a job and a place to crash if we gave you some startup funding..."

[pandion]

"Also, if Ax eats like that in public he will get attention," Andi points out.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble shrugs. "I'll figure something out. And a lot of places do takeout, we can do the eating in private."

[sundayfish]

"The 'generic human morphs' aren't going to have much in the way of legal identity."

[instar]

"Yeah, Dad, you might have to work outside your comfort zone if you want to assume a Frolis-maneuvered persona and do work and have an apartment," Bella says, "I don't see a good way around that unless somebody here is secretly a hacker."

[morphbox]

<Human computer systems must be embarrassingly primitive, if they are on a level with the rest of your planet's technology,> scoffs Ax. <Identities are tracked on such things? And people believe them?>