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Isabella Marie Swan ӝ "Butterfly" ([personal profile] instar) wrote2013-10-16 06:56 pm

the circle

Trouble and Charlie fly to Las Vegas to get their collections of drunks. Ax, newly empigeoned, and Ethan loosely follow Renée's car back to Phoenix, so that Ax will not be stranded in an unfamiliar city obliged to demorph into Andalite form with no garage to hide in.

Renée makes a very large grocery trip. Ax deems alfalfa hay intended for consumption by guinea pigs and rabbits to be the hoof-eating equivalent of palatable; it also turns out he can eat a few other things, like carrot tops and turnip greens. He still doesn't like living in the garage, even though it's a different one. Andi finds him a little planetarium gadget that throws star-patterns onto the ceiling.

Renée installs a cot in the basement for Charlie. (His generic human morph is a man about ten years younger than him, plausibly Latino but just as plausibly not, plain and unremarkable. He also picks up a Renée morph. He will be able to drive the girls places, publicly know their names. They can tell he appreciates the opportunity, however weird it is.) Trouble is allowed to sleep on the couch, when Renée learns that he would prefer not to share the basement with Charlie.

Bella sews weights onto all the curtain hems so they won't be easily nudged aside.

The twins also collect generic-human-morphs. Both of theirs are college-age women, samples collected from going on premature college tours and shaking a lot of hands - Bella's looks maybe half Asian when she's done tweaking it, Andi winds up with a complexion much like her usual one but a surprisingly Hawaiian set of features.

Renée never asks to be enabled to morph. Bella eventually offers, "for emergencies", and Renée aggregates a number of her co-workers into the most stereotypical teacher-lady it is possible to Frolis into without requiring vision correction.

Renée makes the arrangements well in advance to homeschool the twins.

Bella quizzes Ax about all sorts of things, for large parts of each day.
megale: (now i'm sad)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ew, that sounds like a horror movie plot. A bad horror movie plot."

But she has a fuzzy kitty to snuggle.
aeskhyne: (⑦ i'll make you see)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuzzy kitty! Fuzzy purring kitty.

<It's happened to me,> he says. <I was lucky enough to get away. If they found out I'd showed up again this close to home, they'd want to drag me back in for sure. And if they found out I was connected to any kind of talking animal they'd get really serious about it. There's kind of a feud going on there.>
megale: (wait that's bad though)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Evil cult versus talking animals. No talking ravens, huh?"
aeskhyne: (⑩ i'll just play along)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
<Not as far as I know.>
megale: (titaness)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Rhea snuggles him.

"Why're you telling me? I'm nobody special."
aeskhyne: (④ without any plans)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
<Yeah, but I like you,> he says. <I wanna be your snuggly talking animal buddy. And you asked.>
megale: (who're you)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean any of it, why did you say hi at all."
aeskhyne: (⑥ don't know what I want)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
<...Because I like you and I wanna be your snuggly talking animal buddy?>
aeskhyne: (⑦ i'll make you see)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
He rubs his fuzzy face against her arm and purrs. <Because you're really great.>
megale: (are you serious)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm just a random person, though, I don't get it."
aeskhyne: (③ smile on my face)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
<What's there not to get? I heard you talking to pigeons and I kinda fell in love a little and now I wanna be your friend.>
megale: (don't look at me)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is not normal. But I guess neither is turning into animals."
aeskhyne: (Default)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
<Oh, I've never been normal,> he says, purring contentedly.
megale: (you and me)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Pet snuggle pet pet he is the snuggliest kitty. "There you go, then, that's probably why you get to magically turn into animals and I don't."
aeskhyne: (② all night cannonball)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Purr snuggle snuggle purr.
megale: (don't look at me)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Snugs. "What do talking animal buddies do? Do I present you to Mom and Dad and say you followed me home, can I keep you?"
aeskhyne: (① loves to light the fuse)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He giggles. <Nah. I have to sleep as a human, so that could get awkward. But we can hang out and you can pet me, that seems to be working out really well.>
megale: (Default)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are super soft, you are the softest cat, talking or otherwise."
aeskhyne: (③ smile on my face)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
<I am! I made this kitty shape specifically to be really soft and fluffy and pettable. I think I did a pretty good job.>
megale: (are you serious)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"You made it? How do you make shapes? Eye of newt, toe of frog, three tablespoons laundry detergent and a mermaid's tear, salt to taste?"
aeskhyne: (② all night cannonball)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
<Mysterious shapeshifter things,> he says, mysteriously. <But no newts were harmed in the making of this kitty, I can tell you that much.>
megale: (c'mere)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's good. Newts aren't cute or soft but they should keep their toes. Eyes, I mean. Toes too, eyes more importantly."
aeskhyne: (① loves to light the fuse)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-18 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
<I have never deprived a newt of any of its parts!> he promises.
megale: (Default)

[personal profile] megale 2013-10-18 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good kitty."

Snugglllllle. She is even snugglier than she looks.

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