TEST DRIVE #6

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

Comments

[liven]

No. We don't have those where I'm from. [ But she seems satisfied with getting an answer, anyway. She likes to know things, and doesn't like not knowing things. It's somewhere between gratifying and annoying to have so many things to learn, when confronted with a hundred different worlds. ] Just humans. And people who aren't human.

[ How clear. ]

Do you have humans where you're from?

[ben_hassrath]

[ Vagueness, his favorite. In this case, seeing as how he's not trying to glean any real information off her, it doesn't bother him too much. It might actually be entertaining. ]

Yeah, we've got humans. People that aren't humans, too. Elves, dwarves... you know.

[ Or maybe she doesn't, if she didn't know what a Qunari was. ]

So what are you? Human? Or person who isn't human?

[liven]

I've met those here. We don't have them at home, either. Elves and dwarves. I haven't liked any of the ones I've met, though.

[ ...She says, with complete blunt honesty and rather a lot of rudeness. Shijima has never really cared to pretend she likes people when she doesn't. There's a pause, as if reconsidering. ]

I suppose that one woman was all right. [ She's only met like three. ]

I'm not a human. People don't understand me if I don't wear this shape when I want to talk, though. So I wear it.

[ben_hassrath]

I don't blame you, the good ones are hard to come by.

[ It's more teasing than anything, there's a decent amount of elves and dwarves that he's liked, though there's none around for the teasing to be directed towards. He's more interested in her now, anyway, in discerning just what she is exactly. He brings a hand to his face, rubbing thoughtfully along his jaw. His first thought is 'demon', but if she's not from his world, it could be something entirely different.

Which is good, really, considering his feelings about demons. ]

And what shape would you be wearing otherwise? Something beastly?

[liven]

[ Her eyes widen. Flicker. They're already strangely amber in the usual way of things, but now they change into something different. A cat's eyes, slitted and yellow. Shijima holds the small change there for a moment before letting it fall back. ]

Cat. Humans don't speak cat. Dwarves and Elves don't, either.

[ She says it like this is a shortcoming of all those species. Which it clearly is. ]

[ben_hassrath]

Cat?

[ He actually looks surprised, having been expecting something a bit more... fantastical. Then again, a cat that can take the shape of a human is still several steps ahead of a cat that stays a cat.

And then, because he's curious: ]

Can I see? I mean, can you just change back and forth?

[liven]

I can. But then my clothes will be all dirty on the floor.

[ Not that she...cares............actually she seems to be considering it. ]

I think I'm the only white cat in Caer Scima. [ More or less. ]

[ben_hassrath]

I could hold onto them for you.

[ Because now he really wants to see it. Hell, he'll even try to catch them before they hit the floor, if that would work. ]

Might be. They sure like the drab color scheme around here.

1/2

[liven]

Seelie's brighter, apparently. Never been, though.

[ Since, well. She doesn't care enough to go to Caer Glaem. Shijima eyes him, speculatively, and then simply says: ]

All right.

[liven]

[ The change is fast. It's not instantaneous, and her form shifts through stages, fur sprouting and her eyes going catlike again, but when she's done, it's just a white cat, only her collar and her locket keeping in place on her form. ]

[ben_hassrath]

[ Ok, so that's pretty cool. As promised, Bull grabs hold of her clothing, keeping it from hitting the floor. He's still just a bit suspicious of her, in the way that Qunari tend to be suspicious of magical things. He crouches down, observing her in her cat form. ]

But now you can't talk, huh?

[ He holds out a hand tentatively, wanting to pet her. But would that be weird? Probably... still, he lets his hand hover over her, waiting for some sort of sign whether it's permissible or not. ]

[liven]

[ The only answer is a quiet meow. If anyone around here spoke cat, she could definitely talk! Alas...

Born a cat, Shijima doesn't seem to mind being treated as one. She doesn't make any move to bat the hand away, though she doesn't lean up to nudge it, either. ]