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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.
aeskhyne: (⑩ i'll just play along)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, so you wouldn't think I died or got caught, I do that."
aeskhyne: (④ without any plans)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
He shrugs. "Yeah, I could've fucked it all up. But I don't think I did."
aeskhyne: (⑨ nobody grows up)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm pretty sure if she knew anybody in the Sharing she would've mentioned them when I said it was an evil cult, or like, anytime in the ensuing several hours, it's not like most people in the Sharing are quiet about it. She gets that I am a secret talking pigeon who is on the run from evil cultists. I pretty much left her in the dark about whether or not I have any talking pigeon friends. So, yeah, the worst thing that could happen is somebody's gonna find out I'm in Phoenix and I can morph. Pretty fucking bad, yep. I did it anyway."
aeskhyne: (⑥ don't know what I want)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I fell in love. It happens."
aeskhyne: (⑧ nightly in the attic)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"She definitely wants the cool shapeshifting powers, and is generally not on board with evil cults. I dunno exactly how she could help or exactly how she'd want to. And I don't think she's gonna be telling anybody she made out with a talking pigeon all afternoon."
aeskhyne: (⑥ don't know what I want)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"You're the one with the box," he says, shrugging. "Practically speaking, it's your call."
aeskhyne: (⑤ okay boys)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Her name's Rhea. I'm not gonna get mad about it," he says.
aeskhyne: (⑩ i'll just play along)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, probably," he says. "Dunno if she'll jump just for 'hey, wanna see my secret pooka nest?', though. Can I tell her my talking pigeon buddy wants to meet her?"
aeskhyne: (⑦ i'll make you see)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
"You can come to the park with me when I go to see her tomorrow."
aeskhyne: (⑧ nightly in the attic)

[personal profile] aeskhyne 2013-10-19 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm gonna crash," he says. "Haven't been sleeping well."