Open!! Princess would like to steal that lap. :3c?

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Who: Eva + Khardeen. Eva and You. Princess and you?
What: Eva and Khardeen have a chat. Eva fiddles with the Welcome Leaflets in prep for new arrivals; and Princess is Sassy. also that's his laundry basket now.
Where: Various.
When: Egret 28-30
Warnings: see subject lines.

Closed: Khardeen (day 28, morning)
She'd managed to beg off any explanations until today, which was good. She'd needed the day to decompress and get her head back on straight. It wasn't as straight as it could be, but she was doing better than two nights ago. It'd taken the whole day and she was not ashamed she'd spent it in leaf-print PJs and a cloak with a pillow or two that had been liberally hugged. Honestly, it'd been a day well spent and a needed break for her mind.

Now it was to deal with the donphan in the room. - Which is why she'd grabbed a thermos or two of tea and a plate of food and headed to find Khardeen. Was she looking forward to the topic? Oh hell no. But she'd promised and Eva as, if nothing else, some who kept them.

"Hey, got a moment or two? I've some explanations for you."


Standard Car- OTA
Eva is very prompt to make herself at home on one of the tables in the Standard Car in the coming days, and gives absolutely zero cares she very much stands out -she is, after all, dressed in what looks suspiciously like stolen clothing from the aborted mission. None of it is orange, and most of it's actually in greeny-browns tones outside the vibrant blue sash she's sporting. Eva doesn't care if she's called out- it feels good to be in something other than PJs or trainclothes thank you very much.

Though, if that doesn't get attention, she's covered the table in paper, be it from her notebook or welcome leaflets in the process of being edited yet again, or what looks like some sort of calendar (or two...) in the making. The first one -the nonpersonal one- will later be pinned up next to all the ICPs.

Now and again, though, she does flag down somebody. "Hey. Do you mind giving this a look over?"


Princess- Anywhere, OTA. (Eva by calling her)
There is a bored fairy-type pokemon on the train, and for those who can sense it, there's a feeling of coiled power within; he is level 80 after all and impossibly stronger than he looks. One of the strongest pokemon in the universe. And Eva's turned him loose with a strip of cloth tied to the collar that says 'if he's too annoying, call for Iden'no Eva.'. Because of course she has when she trusts the fairy.

The fabric is annoying but after a few rounds of scratching, Princess doesn't seem to mind and heads off in search of his own entertainment- AKA You. Princess isn't picky.

Sassy Smug Highlights include:
--Begging for food from the kitchen -he's cute :3c? (and, as people sould know by now, eats anything and everything)
--smugly camping out in various laundry baskets (clean, dirty, empty. Does not matter. They are his now)
--Cat-loafing on a table. Any table. You mean it wasn't designed for him? Too bad. He's here now. Deal with it. :3
--Chairs too, though more likely to hide under them and try and trip people up via telekinesis on shoes/pants. As long as it doesn't seriously hurt people, he will pull pranks where he can. He is a fairy after all.
--Any open laps on people who look like they'd give good scratches. Or people he knows by scent. Laps are laps after all.
--Or maybe he's Singing. Because you know, it's fun cause people to randomly drift off, or take a nap.
--He's stolen a beanbag and won't give it up. The smuggest pokemon ever.

Of course, that doesn't mean he can't be found with his human, be it hiding behind her skirts or taking over her lap so she can't work. The clefairy doesn't seem to care. Though, some may catch them napping in the Game Car at night, Eva sprawled out against a beanbag yet somehow curled around her pokemon.

If disturbed, they both look up with an uncanny blink and Eva curls defensively around the clefairy. "Hmm?"

Comments

[sell_tickets]

He nodded. "That is true for most people on my world as well," he said. "We call it the Shattered Chalice. When a mind breaks, the Chalice shatters. But they can break without shattering, and where they are broken there will always be sharp edges. For most people, Blood or Landen, the only way to deal is to learn where those sharp edges are, where the lines are. That I can help with. Too many people have gained scars on their souls. My friends and I have all worked together to try and figure out how to help each other with those. And with the rough edges of the Chalice. I cannot repair it. But one friend... she can. She has. When a Chalice shatters fully the person falls into the Twisted Kingdom. They fall far enough, stay in long enough, and there was always nothing that even the best healers could do. But she can. And until then, I can at least help. As a friend."

Yes!

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For the best, really.

There is a happy thrum-purr and for the next several hours at least Webmind will find it's rather hard to work with a sleeping fairy on the lap.

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"Yeah, and I don't know if any of us are equipped to cope outside a listening ear. It's a tinderbox."

And she hates it.

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"Stole? How?"

She's tired and sleepy and still swatting at Princess to get off her.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"It'd be kind of unfair to hope we get another person licensed as a therapist pulled into one of the stations, but..."

They definitely needed someone - or, more likely, a team of them.

[blue_ice]

He points at the bag of cards floating in the air.

"He's having a great time, as you can see."

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"I don't think it's unfair at all. I think it's needed at this point."

It's more blunt tone this time as Eva's hands fist briefly. "All we can do is hope."

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"Ah." Ok so she can't keep a straight face and she grins, even as she finally managed to get her lump of a pokemon off her. "Oi, you. You've had your fun. Let it go."

It's back up with an ear tug and, with a pout, Princess's eyes lose the pink glow.

"Hands under it. It'll fall in a couple of seconds."

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For all he does like brushing (as evidenced by the fact he purrs every time Eva does it), there's an Offended Snort at the mention he'd Like It. He would not! Nope! Never!

He does like the scratching though. That's nice. Very nice.

Yeah, this is going to go on for a few more hours at least. Sorry Trowa, you are now scritchy dispenser.

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Again, there's a thoughtful nod.

"Counselling helped me with that, and typically, a nightmare of Fluffy isn't as bad as it was. But..." She gestures to the train with a resigned, disgruntled look.

"I wouldn't consent to mine being repaired, anyway. It's not because I like the scars," Gods only knew she hated them, but she'd live her life again in a heartbeat. "But because they make me who I am and without them, I'd be a different person."

A sigh, then a small smile. "The biggest help you can be as a friend is to just be there. Be it as someone I can goof off with, a shoulder to cry on, someone to rant to... Take cues from me when it comes to this. Don't push it or think you know best, either, but don't treat me like something fragile. At the end of the day, I was born in a dangerous world, just like you were born into one with Protocol. Yes, Fluffy is far more dangerous than normal, but it's in the realms of 'this is normal for a baby god'."

[blue_ice]

"Right."

Kaiba held his hands out to catch it. He shakes his head.

"I was going to ask you why you hadn't gone to bed...then he decided I was poking my nose where it didn't belong."

He gave Princess a Look.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Well," Nita says. "Misery's a burden best shared..."

Not a happy thought - but then, here, what was?

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin smiles at the cute fairy, recognizing him as one of Eva's pokemons, of course.

He opens the refrigerator door and looks at what is in there. Then he collects some of everything and puts it all on a large plate, which he brings to the counter. He pulls up one of the new stools he modified at Glorfindel's request. They can be raised or lowered, and so he adjusts it to a good height for Princess.

"Hop up here, Princess, and eat all you want. I'll get you more if it isn't enough."

[sell_tickets]

"I can be a friend and I can be here for you. And I''ll do my best to take my cues from you and not push. But I make no promises not to fuss and protect. And people here seem to equate a desire to protect with seeing the other as weak. That isn't what it is. Protecting is at the core of who we are, who I am. I might have less temper about it than some, but then that's all to the good for the train and those on it."

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"Thank you, and I make the same: no promises not to fuss or protect where I can."

Because she will. Her personal safety is second to her friends or those she considers 'hers'. "If anything, it shows just how strong a person is that they can say yes, I'll let you help/protect me. It's a sign they know their limits."

And from the look of it, Eva knows a few people in her life who still don't quite grasp that fact.

[sell_tickets]

He chuckled a bit. "Where I'm from no woman would ever dare fuss over a male. I asked Gabrielle why once," his lips twitched into a smile, and his eyes twinkled. "She said it is because they'd be better at it than we are and we don't need any ideas,. thank you very much. Which I suppose is better than Surreal's belief that for some males a whack upside the head and some bullying is the same as pampering." He chuckled again.

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"I can't imagine not doing that. For all us ladies rule the world, we are mothers and sisters and women first. To fuss over our own is natural, though boys do it better than us."

Likely because for all Eva can and will fuss, she has internalized the whole 'boys are better at it than ladies' mentality. "Like, the one time I got hurt when I had to ditch multiple times mid-air, Satoru wouldn't let me out of bed for a week and a half!"

She's Still Not Over That. "At most, I hit the ground from six metres up and rolled wrong. I was fine!"

[sell_tickets]

"He let you off at only a week and a half?" he said, impishly, eyes twinkling. "He let you off far too easily." He wasn't contesting that females ruled the world, because he agreed. They did. And should.

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"Only because I badgered him for a Lucky Egg, which is basically something expensive that Fast tracks the body's natural healing. I had half a one and I was up and out of bed by the end of the day." Eva grins a little before she turns serious. "I know how to survive a mid-air ditch and how to jump from heights and survive. It doesn't mean I'm immune to bad luck though and half time I think it's planned because the fox needs a laugh."

...She's sulking. Just a bit.

[sell_tickets]

"Fixed because the fox needs a laugh....?" he asked, confused. He was going to have to teach her to air slide, wasn't he?

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"Fate. We call Fate a fox, and every so often, it grabs someone and yeets them into whatever destiny it has planned."

She sounds so, so unhappy about that. "But, like I said, I do actually know how to survive mid-air ditches. The first thing you do is recall the bird, wait a few seconds, then send it out under you. The landing's shit and you do go into another dive, but you pull out soon enough and you're back to flying. But if there's not much room, then all you do is ready to go right into a roll. Not the nicest but it keeps you alive at least."

[sell_tickets]

"Yeets?" he asked with a laugh. "And how does remembering a bird help? I think maybe I should teach you how to build an airslide next time we're outside somewhere with some height."

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Yeets means to throw or punt." Often unwillingly, but she's not getting into her issues with fate.

"Remeb... Ah. Sorry, sorry. Terms from my world." Even after all the time on the train, she still forgot. "You've seen Princess's monsterball, yes? And the flashes of light that signal his return to or vanishment from the world? To ditch a bird means to jump off the pokemon you're riding while mid-air. When you do that, you then have to recall it back to it's monsterball ASAP as the recall beam doesn't have an unlimited range. And then you have to send it out again directly under you."

[sell_tickets]

He blinked picturing this, and fighting his instinctive urge to throttle her for her own good. "And you want to do something like this... why....?"

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Eva gaze turns hollow and haunted. "Because there was no other choice. Just because I know how to do it safely doesn't mean I'd do it for fun. Freefall without a flier under you is terrifying."