[ Angel Devil. ] [ chatcube, or action. ] [ if you're visiting the rose barn, look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]
[ the cube's a little more ghostly than usual, if you, say, are used to Quetzal's usual Cube Antics. some missing something, without his natural gift for telepathy to pour into it. but the cube perks up like it's doing something, anyway.
[ "And so much work to do to get there... There's a place Rose made. Has tools I need. But no hands. Might ask flockmate. But the one who goes in most is... risky flockmate. Just need... a good plan." ]
[ ...there is, louder, now shed of his curse, the piece of him that always wonders why. the piece of him that would rush to rebuff a reached-out hand, when offered.
it is a piece he would usually mollify with cynicism: imperious assurance that he understood the base motives that would drive someone to an appearance of 'kindness,' or 'care;' whispers that since he knew the real reason, he could tolerate it, and be all the more in control of its course.
there are steps and steps in the sands of time behind them that put them in this moment. but even in hindsight... the cold patterns he would normally place them as do not, in any way, match. ]
[ ...but right now he doesn't have quite the same cold calculation underpinning his thoughts that is his "birthright" as a Genome, making him want to KEEP looking, keep teasing out the "why" until it is flayed of feeling, for fact. he doesn't feel like it is all just playing pretend, over top of that.
instead, he hears that sound, a call that he knows in his tiny bones, mixed with something else that's all Muffin... and feels. ]
[muffin chuffs, trying to laugh and purr at the same time. he's sitting alone in a backyard in the middle of the night, but he feels as warm as if he were right in quetzal's arms]
[he can't hide behind this cube when he's got a cube over there oh no]
Is um... Gryphons have two names in my flock. Have spoken name, like Muffin, then have namecall. Is our signature call. Announce ourselves with, call to- mates with, call to flock.
Should... be part of all my songs, but forgot. Made it when I was chick by copying flocks' calls.
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"Muffin's Scales Class~?" ]
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"Looking forward to it." ]
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Going to be busy when back to your body.
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"It's going to be... unsightly. Need to feed my body mana... special light... may need to cut.. if some parts do not work." ]
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...Are hurt worse this time, but I can do it if is for you. And you'll be there to tell me what to do. Is your body, but you're here.
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And if someone's being... "risky," then I extra want to help.
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...Meet me, soon... at Rose, in the night?" ]
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[chirps when he remembers it's a cube call]
Okay. When is ready, I'll be ready.
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"...Thank you. You're always... being the one I can trust." ]
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I'm... happy when you trust me.
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it is a piece he would usually mollify with cynicism: imperious assurance that he understood the base motives that would drive someone to an appearance of 'kindness,' or 'care;' whispers that since he knew the real reason, he could tolerate it, and be all the more in control of its course.
there are steps and steps in the sands of time behind them that put them in this moment. but even in hindsight...
the cold patterns he would normally place them as do not, in any way, match. ]
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he doesn't have quite the same cold calculation underpinning his thoughts that is his "birthright" as a Genome, making him want to KEEP looking, keep teasing out the "why" until it is flayed of feeling, for fact. he doesn't feel like it is all just playing pretend, over top of that.
instead, he hears that sound,
a call that he knows in his tiny bones, mixed with something else that's all Muffin... and feels. ]
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...I'm just glad you chose it was worth having." ]
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[muffin chuffs, trying to laugh and purr at the same time. he's sitting alone in a backyard in the middle of the night, but he feels as warm as if he were right in quetzal's arms]
—Quetzal? Can I ask you something?
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[sits up straighter, BE BOLD GO FOR IT]
Can I get another name from you? A namecall?
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But from that flush... that's not just a request for something so every-day.
Namecall is a very specific bit of word. Tell him more so he can do this right. ]
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Is um... Gryphons have two names in my flock. Have spoken name, like Muffin, then have namecall. Is our signature call. Announce ourselves with, call to- mates with, call to flock.
Should... be part of all my songs, but forgot. Made it when I was chick by copying flocks' calls.
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[ why does feeling this happy in this body make him feel like throwing up ]2/3 im so fucking sad i lost the first version of this comment when it was 3/4 done
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