Chupacabra campfire: early Monday morning

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Today was the first day of classes. Karal was quite pleased, because having nothing he needed to do felt rather odd.

Not, however, as odd as waking up to see the Valdemaran history he'd been reading nesting next to the bed. And clucking. And apparently quite determined to set on the balled up piece of paper it had found on the floor.

His inability to quite believe what he was seeing - and hearing - didn't seem to bother it.

Karal went into the common area to fetch a cup of tea and returned to find the book chicken had somehow incorporated his pillowcase into its nest. Which made it easy to scoop it up and carry it outside.

Settling it safely against a rock, he - after some fumbling - kindled a fire and sat down to watch it. "How in Vkandis' name are you making those noises? You're a book!"

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Ahhh, that explains it. I've heard about Coruscant as well," she nodded. "Last summer some of the people in the flight class went there for a field trip. I can see where there's a differnce between here and there."

Isabel thought for a moment, trying to place where Gavin would be timewise. "What war is this? Still against the Emperor?"

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"No," he said and shook his head. "No, the Emperor is gone. The Empire is still around."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Ah okay. The leader's gone but the followers remain. Is it going well at least?" She wondered if they'd have the same problem if, no, when they were able to get rid of Kivar.

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

He shrugged one shoulder, squirming a little. "In certain areas."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel can read body language well enough to know when someone's uncomfortable so she backed off. "Well hopefully you'll learn something here to take back with you. Although somehow I'm guessing the care of book-chickens isn't exactly it."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Will the books be like this forever now?" Gavin asked, thankful for the reprieve.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Nah, they should be back to normal by tomorrow. Within two or three days max," she promised. "In the meantime? Consider them some sort of low maintainence exotic pet."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Does that mean I should feed them?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Low maintainence. No feeding necessary," Isabel laughed. "Probably the biggest thing will be too keep them from wandering into the shower or the fire. Because that could be messy."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Oh." He frowned. "Does this happen a lot? Things coming to life?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's not daily, or even weekly. But it happens often enough that it doesn't even phase me anymore," she shrugged. "Well, unless the washing machines feel unappreciated again. That could be a problem."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

He didn't even want to ask. "What happened then?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel snickered, only because it did not happen to her personally. "Clothing started disappearing. While you were wearing it."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

He stared. And swallowed.

"People were naked?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"They were usually kind enough to leave underwear. But if you weren't wearing any to begin with," she sighed. "Yeah, that was problem. Fortunately around here? It was a very pretty problem."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's...good?" He lived on a desert planet for most of his life.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Very, very good," grinned Isabel, internally laughing just a bit at poor sheltered and innocent boys for Tatooine. "And on that note, I'd better get going. Somehow I wound up with three workshops today. I was not thinking when I sighed up. At all."

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Of course," he said and stood up. "It was good to meet you."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You as well," Isabel smiled. "I'm sure I'll see you around." Still smiling she headed off to pick up the kidlet from school back towards Platypus.