Fourth floor comon room: Saturday afternoon

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal stumbled into the common room in something of a daze.

In his arms was a chinchilla. Esther the chinchilla, in fact, and she was extremely cute, all bright eyes and twitching nose.

Unfortunately she was also talking. A lot. "...so this is a common room. I've never seen a common room before. What makes it common? That seems like a strange name. Can I have a biscuit? Or a carrot? I bet there's some in that big white box over there. Put me down so I can hop around! I want to see why it's common!"

Karal set her down on the table, sank into a chair, and let his head thump onto the table top. Esther was still talking. "Why did you do that? Didn't that hurt? This isn't the floor, I can't get to the white box from here." Hop hop, nudge nudge. "Your hair is soft. Not as soft as mine, but it's soft. Can I get down? I want to explore. Where's my biscuit? You were going to get me a biscuit."

"Bright Flame, please stop talking!" Karal begged her.

"But you wanted me to talk. you said so. You said you wished I could talk, and then I could! Not that I couldn't talk before, you just couldn't understand me. I don't think humans are very smart. Oh, what's over here?!"

Karal groaned and closed his eyes.

[ooc: well, it's a common room, so of course it's open! Karal wished Esther the chinchilla could talk, and lo and behold... Plus, shhhh, it always said Saturday.]

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean wandered down from his dorm room, then stopped and stared. "Dude, your... furball is talking."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal lifted his head and cast Dean a helpless look. He didn't get a chance to say anything, though, because Esther hopped to the edge of the table and stretched towards Dean. "I'm not a furball. I'm a chinchilla. Esther the chinchilla. Who are you? Will you give me a biscuit? Why is it called a common room? I've never been in here before. I think I like it. It's much bigger than my cage."

"She will not stop," he managed to get in as Esther paused for breath.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean was still staring at Esther. "Maybe if you gave her a biscuit?"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Yes! I like you. I need a biscuit. Or a carrot or some celery or an apple or some bread..." She kept listing off food she'd like while Karal hopped up and went to rummage in the kitchen cupboards, returning with a box of crackers. "...or some cheese, I've never had cheese, or pineapple or chocolate and oh! What's that?"

Karal pulled out several crackers and offered them to her. After a nose twitch or two, she snatched one and started stuffing it in her mouth, still talking, but at least it was quieter.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean grinned. "What I used to have to do to shut Sammy up when he was in babble mode."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie had wandered down a floor, looking for popcorn, and waved to Karal as she entered. "Hello, Karal. Hello, Dean!" She didn't immediately notice the chinchilla, and went over to the cupboards to rummage for microwave bags. Then she looked up, when she heard the little voice talking. "Oh my."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Esther looked up, eyes bright. "Hi! Are you getting me food? Karal won't let me off the table and I think he's just being mean. Don't you think he's being mean? You have a lot of hair. How come humans only have hair in a few places instead or everywhere like me? It doesn't make sense. Are you getting me food?"

Karal waved at her. "Hello, Evie," he said, pitching his voice to be heard over Esther. "She talks now."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Good heavens, what happened?" Evie wondered, then told Esther, "I can certainly share with you? And do you know Momo Junior? He's my boyfriend's chinchilla. And, um. I think we only have hair in certain places because..." Evie flailed. "We like clothes better?"

Paleoanthropology was not her field, nope.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"There's another chinchilla here? Is he as cute as me? I bet he's not as cute as me. I'm the prettiest chinchilla ever and I'm not afraid of anything! I don't want to wear clothes. They look silly. I don't want to share, I want food of my own!"

She stamped one little foot and Karal reached out and cuddled her against his chest, trying to muffle her words. "Esther! That is rude. If you are going to speak you will have to learn manners."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Well, he's a boy, so there's really no comparison," Evie told Esther as diplomatically as she could. "And I can certainly make you a second bag." Because on second thought, maybe the chinchilla should have her own portion. "And it's fine, Karal, I'm sure she's just very young?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Hi Evie," Dean replied. "You don't have anything that's talking that shouldn't be do you?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie gave Esther a dismayed glance, then shook her head. "No, thank goodness. Of course, now I want to check with Sokka, and make sure this hasn't accidentally become true with Momo Junior, either. How are you? I heard you were no longer a wolf, congratulations!"

Only in Fandom.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Thanks. Yeah, Umbitch's spell finally wore off, thank god."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"One would think someone could file a class-action suit against her, for her irresponsible actions," Evie said with a frown. "That Woman is a definite menace. She made my friend Anne's hair grow to ridiculous lengths, including her eyebrows. And if you knew how sensitive Anne was, you'd know how humiliating she found that, even if it didn't hurt her or inconvenience her the way being a wolf must have effected you."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

When Johnny entered the common room, he had a bunch of things that he was going to say. To ask where the noise was coming from, or what people were up to, or if they would mind if he turned on the TV to watch the Bitterwoman made-for-TV movie.

And then he saw the babbling chinchilla, and just kind of stopped and stared at it. It seemed that he wasn't completely used to Fandom weirdness yet.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal smiled wearily at him as Esther bounced down to the end of the table. "Hi! I don't know you either! You smell funny. Who are you and are you going to feed me? I don't want to share, though. Do you know why it's called a common room? It's much better than a cage because a cage is much smaller. Why are you staring?" Her eyes got really big and she started swivelling her head to look around the room. "Is there something scary here?!"

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny sat down in a chair closer to the table, and tried to figure out whether to pay attention to the chinchilla or her own.

"I ... dunno," he said, finally deciding on the chinchilla. " 'M Johnny Blaze, but 'm afraid I don't have any food to offer you. Sorry." Man, this was weird, even by his standards.

" 'S it supposed t'do this?" he asked Karal.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"I don't think she is, no," Karal said as Esther gave an offended sniff at the lack of food and began a running commentary on how he could get her some, surely that wouldn't be too hard, after all. "She just started talking today," he continued over the top of her. "And she will not stop!"

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny had a hard time getting over the chinchilla's monologuing. He idly ran his hands through his pockets, but the only thing he could come up with was an after dinner mint, and he didn't think that it would be good for the animal.

"Have you tried feedin' her to make her stop?" he asked. "Or lookin' for the batteries?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, kinda startling isn't it?" Dean observed.

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

"Gotta say that it is," agreed Johnny. "I wasn't expectin' to wake up and have to deal with a talking animal today. Unless we're slowly turnin' into a Disney movie here."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean considered. "I don't think that's happened. Yet. Although there was that whole lion singing thing that one weird weekend..."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie waved to the newcomer, saying "Hello! Did we meet at the beginning of this session? I can't recall. I'm Evie."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny looked her over, but the face didn't look familiar to him. "I don't think so," he said. " 'M Johnny Blaze. Nice t'meet you."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Pleased! And welcome, albeit belatedly," Evie said. "You're welcome to share the popcorn, as soon as it's done. Do you live on this floor? I'm up on Fifth, but I sneak down here for snacks, sometimes."