voidtreckerexpress | Double the Bunny, Double the Fun

Who: WangJi and You! ... with closed action to WuXian
Where: Greenhouse Car, Dining Car, randomly around the train
When: Horseshoe Day 1
What: WangJi has retrieved his new rabbit from the luggage car and wants to introduce it to the train... and find his husband
Warnings: Fluff? Is fluff a warning?

WangJi had finally picked up his request from the luggage car, a small black rabbit that was both a friend for Little Rabbit and a surprise for his husband... since he wanted him to name it since he had gotten to name the last one.

So he was wandering the train with the black rabbit in his arms, standing out brilliantly against his white sleeves. He wanted the rabbit to get used to the sights and sounds of the train, the same way that Little Rabbit was used to them as well.

In the course of his exploration with the rabbit, he made it to the dining car to see what herbs and vegetables were available for a snack and through the library. He avoided the music car because he didn't want to upset the small rabbit with too much noise.

Greenhouse Car
Finally, he decided to take the new rabbit to meet his companion, Little Rabbit. For the moment, he was going to let them get used to each other through the fence of what would be their shared hutch, letting them not see the other rabbit as a threat.

But the black rabbit, of course, wanted to explore the garden car, hopping around and sniffing the plants.

"Careful, little one," WangJi said to the rabbit, kneeling in between where the rabbit was exploring the hutch where Little Rabbit was sitting, watching the new arrival.

Closed to WuXian
Finally, he found his husband. Somehow in a living arrangement that was basically a straight line, it was still hard to find people.

"Wei Ying."

He approached, holding the black rabbit in his arms.

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"You must have a decent infrastructure in your world then." Senku said, considering that. "In mine there isn't anyone who could survive without meat at the moment, at least, and not be very sick. There are no alternatives to getting all of the nutrients they need. Agriculture is very new, and we are only growing wheat."

He blinked at that and tilted his head slightly to look at the rabbit. "I never had a pet, so I wouldn't know what it would like."

"We do have good trading in our world. My home grows some of our food, but we are able to go to Caiyi Town and get supplies. Agriculture? Only now. It must be very far in the past."

WangJi looked down at the rabbit before turning back to Senku. "What all rabbits would like? Or what this rabbit would like right now?"

"The opposite actually, very far in the future after civilization died and I'm bringing it back." Senku explained. "But the people that lived outside of those who were petrified, were such a small group that agriculture was outside of the scope of what they could handle. There's also nowhere really to trade with, and no real resources the other settlement we now have access to has that we don't."

In fact, they would have to do something about bringing Treasure Island up to their level of technology beyond the radio tower. It went on his mental to do list, maybe after they returned from America.

"I meant rabbits in general." He nodded. "I know what they eat and I've had them. I mean, I'll eat anything I can catch to survive." He explained. "Because there's not much of an alternative there, but..."

"So your civilization died out?" That was an odd concept for him to consider. Even at where he was in their society compared to this place, he couldn't really imagine it. "And there was no record of agriculture?"

Strange. Very strange.

"Of course. Rabbits are much like others. They look for food, have offspring. But they play, they learn, they care for others. They have been some of my best companions in the worst of times."

"In a manner of speaking. Humans were all turned to stone statues for over 3700 years, so all of civilization and technology that had built up, including the records, are long gone." Senku responded.

"The village was only 40 people, and although they suffered for food, and had a hard time when it was a bad year or something to that effect, agriculture would have been beyond them. There weren't enough people to put forth the effort and resources, and also, the area they were in was not conducive to that. Horrible place to grow crops. We had to build the farming further away."

He hummed a little bit. "Guess I never thought they did things like play."

There was a very odd look on WangJi's face at the comment about stone statues. "Yes, I would suppose that such things would make it difficult to grow crops reliably. But... how did everyone become statues?"

He pet the rabbit again when it tugged on his sleeve with its mouth. See? Rabbit wanted his attention. "They do. They run and chase each other, jump over each other, and onto objects. Sometimes they will play with new objects they have never seen before."

"That's pretty fascinating, actually. From what I can tell they used this small device we're calling the Medusa and then the world was engulfed in a bright light turning everyone to stone. Once I broke free of that, thanks to some handy nitric acid and my brain functions, I've been working to put civilization back together. I've managed to figure out revival fluid, so someday when we produce enough, we can revive all 7.8 billion people."

He hummed. "Not so bad I guess, you could watch them and be entertained. I never considered getting a pet."

"That's quite amazing, both what happened and that you have figured out how to solve it. I have never heard of anything like that happening before. I would imagine if it did go back to pre-agriculture times, it would certainly take some time to make enough of the required medication."

"Yes, they can certainly be entertaining. They are also very calming."

His rabbits really had no other purpose in the Cloud Recesses other than they made him happy and he was important enough and his brother so willing to accommodate him that he could have a warren of rabbits that served no productive purpose other than to help keep the grass from getting too long.

"Yeah, that took about a year." Senku agreed with a bit of a nod. "Coincidentally, agriculture has nothing to do with it, it's a mix of nitric acid and alcohol. Nital." He grinned.

"Calming?" He blinked. "But...it's a bunny." He didn't really understand the purpose behind it, although if he gets calm from that, more power to him, he supposed. He had a hard time relaxing himself, he wasn't the best judge of what bunnies could do for people.

"I see. I am afraid I do not know what this 'nitric acid' is and I am guessing wine is the not alcohol you are speaking of."

"Some find being close to animals to be calming. I have spent many hours sitting on the back mountain of the Cloud Recesses with my warren of rabbits. If they come to me, I give them attention. If they do not, that is their choice. Either way, being with them helped me."

"It's a chemical compound. We use brandy, actually, so you take the wine you mentioned and distill it further until it's about 96% proof." Senku explained.

"I guess, I never really gave something like that much thought." He hummed. Only Suika had any pets, he didn't know anyone else who did.

"I see." Actually no, he really doesn't, but he'd leave anything related to alcohol to others. And everyone on the train would be thankful for that.

"If you ever want to spend some time with an animal, you are welcome to accompany me when I visit my rabbits. This one is still new, but Little Rabbit is very much used to the train now."

"I can't really picture doing that, but I guess I'll let you know if I change my mind." Senku said agreeably, letting him get back to acclimating his new bunny.

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