1 Feather

[sunshineandcookies]

[Oh hey, a new face! A pale, spotted figure is sitting in the cafeteria looking up at the camera rather bewildered. He's obviously new and out of place - and are those cat ears, and two pairs of wings?!]

I...like to think I can handle a little weird. I've seen it all. I'll take being warped away to an unfamiliar place while I'm just sipping my tea. I'll even take strange floating balls staring at me. [At least he thinks they're staring - are those even eyes?]

...but why is there a dinosaur outside?

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[sailorlaughter]

It's okay! He's a Utahraptor!

[Pinkie appears. Actually, she was already in the kitchen, so Abel gets to watch her bounce over like a totally normal pony for once. Well, a normal pony with a snarling, sharp-toothed cupcake chewing on her mane.]

Hi, my name's Pinkie Pie! Welcome to the Satellite of Love! I was gonna give you one of my brand-new Beast Cupcakes, but there was a teeeeeeeeny-tiny problem with the recipe, so you can have a red velvet one instead! [Have a red velvet cupcake!]

[sunshineandcookies]

[The fact that there's a pink pony talking to him surprisingly doesn't faze him. But the cupcake gnawing on her just might. But at the one she offers him, his ears perk a little.]

The Satellite of Love? That sounds like a bad soap opera, and I know bad soap operas.

[sailorlaughter]

Nope, we only do bad books up here!

[sunshineandcookies]

[munch munch cupcake munch]

Bad books? Well if you're looking for volunteers I could list some names.

...wait, what do you mean "do" bad books?

[sailorlaughter]

Every week, the Mads send one up here, and we have to make fun of it! It's...pretty fun. Mostly! [Some of those stories freak even Pinkie Pie out, okay]

[sunshineandcookies]

And the Mads would be...?

[Note to self: figure out why he can't read minds here, stat.]

[sailorlaughter]

They're the mad scientists who put us up here! Well, they put Mike up here - the rest of us just kinda popped in!

[sunshineandcookies]

...well, good luck with that. I'll just be on my way now.

[sailorlaughter]

Ooooh, where ya headed? Don't you wanna pick out a bedroom and stuff?

[sunshineandcookies]

I already have a bedroom. It's cozy and warm and secluded and decorated far better than anything in here. And I'd like to go back to it now.

[sailorlaughter]

Oh! Sorry! You kinda can't! You're stuck up here with us now! [She doesn't actually sound like she thinks that's a bad thing.] But you can decorate your new room however you like!

[sunshineandcookies]

...

Stuck.

Up here.

With you.

[sailorlaughter]

Yepper-deppers! And everyone else, too!

[sunshineandcookies]

[Hear that?

That's the sound of Abel's head hitting the table.]

[sailorlaughter]

[Pinkie headtilts, the Beast Cupcake dropping off her head and scooting quickly away.]

Sooooooo...does that mean you don't want the tour right now?

[sunshineandcookies]

No, that's alright. I'll just sit here until whatever started this vivid hallucination and/or nightmare wears off and I wake up in my room late for the night shift.

[sailorlaughter]

Okie-dokie-lokie! I'll be in the kitchen if you need me!

[sunshineandcookies]

[Help. ._.]

[fatedcircle]

It could be worse.

[sunshineandcookies]

Oh sure it could be! I could be missing my second shift in a row at the inn and my boss could kill me. And not figuratively!

[...wait.]

[fatedcircle]

[(Is that really something you have to worry about?)]

...Right.

[sunshineandcookies]

[Clearly Squall has never met Alexsi.]

Right. So if you'll kindly show me the way out?

[fatedcircle]

There isn't one.

[sunshineandcookies]

...

So you mean to tell me I'm stuck up here?

[fatedcircle]

Yes.

[sunshineandcookies]

Well frig.

[fatedcircle]

You get used to it.

[sunshineandcookies]

Can't I opt not to get used to it and go back to bed until modern music stops sucking?

[fatedcircle]

No.

[sunshineandcookies]

[Siiiiigh]

Is there at least any good tea up here?

[fatedcircle]

[(Why would I know...?)]

Try the cafeteria.

[littlesun]

[Chibi bounces around and barks at the camera. It's always nice to see a new person here. It looks like Pinkie Pie's already said hi, but he'd like to put a word in, too.]

[sunshineandcookies]

Sorry puppy, I don't have any bones for you. If you could just show me the door?

[littlesun]

[Chibi wilts a bit. He'd hoped that someone else would be able to understand him here, but maybe not.]

Can you tell what I'm saying? There isn't a door out of here; you're stuck.

[sunshineandcookies]

I told you I haven't got anything. I'm more of a cat person anyway.

[Nope, can't understand you Chibi. Sorry.]

[colorbymemory]

That's Cambot; he can help you talk to everyone.

I think dinosaurs live on the world we're closest to.

[sunshineandcookies]

...Cambot. I'm talking to people through a floating camera.

......and are you human?!

[colorbymemory]

Well, I think he's a robot that's mostly a camera.

[Her Cambot makes the standard game show "Correct answer" sound at that.]

He helps us talk to each other, though none of the conversations are really private.

[Which is why his question has her in a bit of a bind. She doesn't want to lie, but doesn't want to get into the whole Nobody thing on Cambot.]

Most of us here are.

[sunshineandcookies]

...and with that I've gone insane. It's finally happened.

Humans are extinct! I've had four hundred years to read up on humans and I know they're extinct!

[colorbymemory]

[Oh, so he's from a world without humans.]

We've all come from different worlds. Most of those have humans, but some don't.

[sunshineandcookies]

...

Well, Merlitz did say something once about meeting a human. But I thought that was just crazy talk. He had to have been crazy to date Aaryana.

[colorbymemory]

[Namine doesn't know Merlitz, or Aaryana, so she'll just have to take Abel's word for it.]

Well, now you can say you've met one, too?

[sunshineandcookies]

I'll just go with the theory that I've gone crazy now too. That makes all too much sense.

[brb going back to bed forever]

[colorbymemory]

[Well, he'd need to find a free bedroom before he could.]

I guess I'm not explaining well. I'm sorry.