Tenth Sunrise

[yabigfurball]

[Okay. Amaterasu is concerned on a number of levels now. Everyone is acting very strange! She faces Cambot, pulls out her paper and brush, and paints up a quick sketch:]



[She then shows the picture to Cambot as if he should be paying close attention. People should not be behaving like wolves! They should be behaving like people! Otherwise someone's gonna get hurt...or horribly embarrassed!]

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[thirteenth_brat]

[Roxas has finally won his argument with the food synthesizer... sort of. It gave him a beef and vegetable and noodle dish with a nice broth. The meat's cooked a little more than he likes, but he has to admit it's tasty.

He's just starting on this, with chopsticks mind, when his Cambot approaches him. Cambot's lens is obviously cracked, which might be why he's approaching Roxas very cautiously. Apparently, he felt Roxas needed to see this.

Is that amusement? That's amusement. What does Ammy expect from a bunch of humans... and other supposedly civilized creatures... who were raised by wolves?]

[yabigfurball]

[Roxas just looks...amused. Is he amused because he agrees the whole thing is ridiculous? Or because he doesn't get it? It'd help if he said something! Ammy shakes the picture a little as if to ask "understand this?"]

[thirteenth_brat]

[He doesn't talk much, if he doesn't have to. But it looks like he has to here.]

I get it. It's ridiculous.

[A pause. He's thought of something.]

It could be worse.

[And he's back to eating his noodles.]

[yabigfurball]

[Oh, thank goodness! He's still talking. Ammy sighs with relief, and then nods her head in agreement. It is ridiculous!]

[thirteenth_brat]

[Yes he's talking, but he's not all that keen on it. He's a little puzzled at her relief, but he supposes maybe there's just weird crap going on because of that device.

He'll be looking back on this incident and wondering if anyone's going to be able to look anyone else in the eye after the device is hit again. He may also be a bit disturbed that it tampered with his memory so easily. For the time being, he's still pretty sure he and the others were raised by wolves and that he's just taking the so-called civilized life better.]

At least they're not fighting about anything?

[That's about the only way he can think of that it would be worse. That and maybe a lack of toilet training...]

[yabigfurball]

[Ammy nods again, a bit slower this time. She didn't want to have to think about breaking up any fights by people thinking they were wolves. But knowing their luck, that just might pop up anyway.]

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[guardiano_perduto]

[Momma why did you draw an x on that wolf are you okay.]

[yabigfurball]

[Well...that doesn't look like a promising sign. She pulls the picture aside and pats a paw on the human side, giving Ratchet an encouraging grin. Behaving like a human is good, right? She thinks so...for people, anyway.]

[guardiano_perduto]

[That doesn't look anything like him! The Lombax quickly shakes his own head, trying to paw to the left side of the drawing. That's what he was, you silly-nilly momma.]

[yabigfurball]

[Ammy just grumbles to herself and sighs. If she could facepalm right now, she would. Maybe there's no getting out of this until she can find that switch again and use it...]

[halfdarkened]

[There's a piece of paper with black and red markings on it. Riku has never learned how two dimensional markings could be used to represent objects or even ideas. He cocks his head at it.]

[How did she make those markings? It could be fun to do that too! LET'S MANIPULATE OUR ENVIRONMENT!]

[yabigfurball]

[Come on, Riku! It's not even like she's writing in Japanese or anything! Even if he doesn't know how to read, surely he understands pictures, right?]

[She shakes the picture a little bit? See the nice human, Riku? Do you understand it?]

[halfdarkened]

[Riku still looks it over. He gives a little whimper, knowing he was missing something. He uses his imagination, though. The first picture looks like a small, bleeding wolf. Poor thing... There's blood in a circle around the other one. The other one looked more like him and many of the others here. He knew he had been different from the others in the pack...

No, wait! Was the not-wolf walking like Roxas did? Was that a picture of Roxas?! Why is there a circle of blood around him?]

[yabigfurball]

[Riku doesn’t seem to be understanding, and just looks worried about something. Maybe she’s shattering his worldview...]

[But still, she has to try. She puts a paw on the picture of the circled human, then directs her paw at him and gives her best smile. Human equals you, Riku! You should stand like one!]

[halfdarkened]

[Riku blinks. That's him? But what about the circle of blood? That doesn't make sense.]

[He flops on his back and imitates the picture... Sort of. At least he's in the right posture, even if he's laying down. ...WOW, his back hurts in a good way as the tenseness ebbs. He didn't realize his back hurt that bad!]

[yabigfurball]

[Well, that's...starting to get there. At least he gets the idea that he should be in something like that position. Ammy rears up onto her hind legs and tries to stand that way, although she can't do it for long. Try doing that but standing up, Riku!]

[sailorlaughter]

[Pinkie headtilts. And then disappears. A few minutes later, she reappears with a crude drawing of a stick-pony done in pink crayon.]

You're right! This is TOTALLY fun!

[yabigfurball]

[Well, it's kind of hard to tell if Pinkie is still normal, or if she's been effected, too. Ammy notes her drawing and nods in approval...she's considering herself a pony now, right?]

[sailorlaughter]

Ooooooh, I'm gonna draw a giraffe now! And an elephant!

[THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW]

[yabigfurball]

[Ammy definitely doesn't know right now. She just sighs, and waves Pinkie off to draw other animals. That'll at least keep her from getting into trouble!]

[milliondollarpipes]

[Harvey just lifts his head, looks from the paper to her, and then lays back down and closes his eyes again. You interrupted his naptime for this?]

[yabigfurball]

[Ammy whines, and paws at the paper again. Harvey, pay attention! This is important!]

[milliondollarpipes]

[He begrudingly opens his eyes to look at her again, though he doesn't make any move to get up. Fine, Ammy, what?]

[yabigfurball]

[Now that Ammy has his attention again, she attempts to stand up on her hind legs and walk a tiny bit, giving him her best encouraging grin. See, Harvey? Wouldn't doing this be so much better?]

[milliondollarpipes]

[He just arches an eyebrow. The hell're you doin'? That's not how you walk.]