Fourth Floor Hallway; A Little Past Noonish.

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A slight damp albino crow was working its way down the fourth floor hallway.

Occationally, it attempted to flap its wings and take flight, only succeeding a strange, awkward sort of jumping effect.

It looked extremely pissed off, for a crow. It probably had a lot to do with the fact that the crow was actually a girl, and the girl desperately did not want to be a crow.

Setsuna tried Jude's door first, knocking her beak across it until her head hurt, but there was no response after a while, and she figured maybe he had class or work or something, which caused her to squawk in annoyance and flap her wings again because there was no way, if she didn't figure out this bird flying thing, that she could make it into town very easily.

Thankfully, there was a second option. Although, after last night, her reluctance was very, very strong. However, they were the only two people who knew, that she could recall. And getting back to normal was significantly more important than anything else right now.

Setsuna started, awkwardly wobbling in her unfamiliar new form, down the hall, to start pecking at Ranma's door. If he wasn't in, she didn't know what she'd do. Maybe try to make it up to Alphonse's room, but how would she explain it to him? But he could maybe keep an eye on her, since her abilities were severely limited at the moment. Unless, of course, Cuddles had a thing for birds. Her red albino eyes blinked, panic welling up inside of her at the thought of being eaten by Alphonse's cat. Her beak rapped rapidly on Ranma's door.

But wait! MIZU! Panic overtaking her, she stopped knocking and ran around in frantic, wing-flapping circles in front of his door, squawking up a worried, frantic storm of swears.

[[ open to interaction before Ranma's ]]

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After any other interactions

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Ranma returns from magic class to see a little white crow flailing around in front of his door. //Shit Shit!// He heard her swearing. So bird language WAS fairly transferable. Why come to HIM anyway? I guess he's the only person who really knows. But in a way, he really doesn't want to see her today... BUt he can deal with it, this is obviously more important. He knows he said he wouldn't do it again, but he scoops her up and speaks to her in Japanese. //Setsuna... calm down. An' don't ya dare peck me. I've gotta put a leash on Mizu before ya can walk around my room.//

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Oh, thank God, Ranma! Setsuna squawked mostly uninterpretable squawks of excitement as she hopped around, flailing her wings as he approached.

She's too excitable and panicked to really hear what he says. //"Ranma, Ranma!"// she squawked, wings still flapping even as he picked her up. //"Oh my God, oh my God, shit! I'm a bird, Ranma! I don't know what to do, oh my God! I don't want to be eaten by anyone's pet! Oh my God, Ranma~!"//

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He had even just gotten a packet on crow languages just this morning... He still spoke to her in Japanese. //Hey... 's okay. No one's gonna eat ya.// He opened his door with his elbow, not wanting to crush her at all. Mizu hopped at his ankles. He sets her down on the dresser and bends to leash Mizu to his desk chair. Mizu whined, birdys are fun to chase! Ranma makes it so Mizu's on a VERY short leash. He can see that look in his eyes.

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Almost impulsively, because she knew she shouldn't because it ran the risk of Ranma dropping her, Setsuna started flapping her wings in panic the moment she saw Mizu bound for Ranma's feet. She squawked in general distress. Dog bad!!

Once on the dresser, Setsuna scurried toward the back, hiding herself between some items atop of it. She shrunk back, only beak and red eyes peeking out.

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He gives Mizu a pat before standing up to look at Setsuna again. //We need ta find a way ta make hot water easy fer ya ta get in that form.... Maybe a coffee maker.. ya can just peck the button and it'd get some hot water...// He starts his own water heater and waits a minute or so for steam to start rising off the top. He looks at the hot water warily and grabs serveral shirts to wrap around his hand before he grabs for it. But stops. The shirts remind him of another factor of this whole... thing... //Setsuna where'd ya leave your clothes...?//

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Yeah, a coffee maker. That'd work. Even if she could just push a button, you still had to put the water in. She glowered from her spot with slightly bristling feathers.

And then Ranma brought up a very good point. She squawked another "shit!" and started flapping her wings nervously. She didn't even think of that, and was panicing again.

Re: After any other interactions

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//Don't glare at me like that. Talk to me. Where'd ya leave your clothes?//

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Bright side to being a crow? No one can tell when you're blushing.

Her squawk was a bit of a mumble, and she moved more behind the things on the dresser. Because, hey, underneath off this crow, she was naked. //"Shower..."//

Re: After any other interactions

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He tosses a shirt over her and sighs. //'ll be right back. Mizu can't get ya. Don't worry.//

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Setsuna sighed and looked up at the shirt now tossed over her, hoping Ranma found her clothes. Because if she was going to have to be stuck in his clothes every time this happened....yeah.

And then there was Mizu. Gulp. Setsuna tried to remain still and calm on the dresser, but that dog was bouncing up and down a lot, with a manic look in his usually cute puppy eyes....She glared at him.

Re: After any other interactions

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That birdy smells like Ranma's friend! Play! Play! Mizu wants to play with it! The chair topples over and Mizu's leash slips free from the leg. //Birdy! Come here!// he yips and tries to poise a bounce up there.

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SQUAWK! Killer dog on the loose! And Setsuna bird without a sword.

Her wings began to flap nervously and she started to move to hide better, only to get tangled up in Ranma's shirt, tripping horribly on her spindly bird legs and tumbling off the dresser entirely. Thankfully, she was able to flap her wings to slow her up a bit to prevent from smacking too hard.

But now she was on the floor with a dog right freakin' there! Setsuna started to run away, flapping her wings frantically in an effort to fly. Work, wings, dammit, work! How much different can you possibly be than the ones I normally have, honestly!

Before..

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Kaoru had been having a few questions about the new packets they had gotten this morning, so he and Hikaru were wandering about the floors looking for someone he could talk to that had been in a previous class....

What was that noise..?

Re: Before..

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Oh, no. Nononononono....

There were no more noises; just an albino crow trying to disappear against the side of the hallway and not be seen.

Re: Before..

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"Hikaru... there's a bird in here." Kaoru knelt down by the crow and cleared his throat. //You lost..?// He'd been practicing crow, but it probably had a starling ring to it.
"...did you actually just do that..?" Hikaru gave his brother a look.
"Come on, Hikaru, I've been making weird noises since school started." Kaoru turns back to the bird and waits to see if it understands.

Re: Before..

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Setsuna blinked her red bird eyes at the twins. Oh, of course they wouldn't realize it was her. Why would they? They were still in the dark about all her fun little quirks for the most part. Her head tilted as she tried to think of what to do that seemed very birdlike and would quickly kill their interest.

She strutted forward a bit, and started preening herself, only to discover it kind of tickled and so she had to do it carefully, else she'd make herself laugh.

If she even could laugh as a bird.

Re: Before..

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Kaoru stared at it, "Maybe it's stupid."

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That earned Kaoru a nice nip at the ankle. //"I am not!"// Setsuna squawked, forgetting that he would be able to understand anything she squawked.

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"Ack!" Kaoru totters back in his kneeled position. "It speaks or rather...she?" He noticed that the bird had a higher pitched squawk, not to mention the few other small details of the feathers and structure that gave gender away. //Why are you in here?//

Re: Before..

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Pity that, although she can naturally squawk it in this form, Setsuna can't understand a word Kaoru was saying to her in that language. So she just goes for the dignified route and lifted her beak in the air.

Re: Before..

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Kaoru figured it out a little after the second no response and that...the way the bird did that reminded him of someone.. "Why are you in here? Get lost? Stuck?" He looks up at who's door she's in front of. "Wanting to talk to Ranma..?"

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Her red bird eyes narrowed a little.

//"Yes."// It was a very curt squawk, one she was reluctant to allow, but she couldn't very well have them thinking she was lost or stuck and offering to take her outside. Let'em know she needed to talk to Ranma. The chances of them connecting a random bird in the hallway needing to get into Ranma's room with her was just...one in a million. To the best of her knowledge, they wouldn't know that she and Ranma were anything more than friends...

...not that they were, of course. But, you know...

Re: Before..

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"Ranma's friends with birds, huh?" Nothing is strange at fandom. Kaoru turns to glance up at the watching Hikaru. "She's got pretty feathers. Remind me of Setsuna's wings, how white they are."
"Yea. Strange color for a crow." Hikaru shrugs.

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As long as Kaoru had figured out that she can speak it but can't understand it, this might actually work.

//"Oh?"// she chattered, hopping a bit as though interested; God, speaking crow was so strange. //"Is Setsuna a bird friend of yours?"//

Before...and After

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John hears a tapping, someone gently rapping, rapping against someone else's dorm room door. Only this and nothing more.

As he pondered, glum and lonely, he crossed his room both stark and homely, venture to cross to the dorm room door, to censure and to alter denture. He was pissed to even the score.