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Dorm lawn: early Tuesday morning

Karal was grazing. Which wasn't quite as weird as it sounded, given he was a horse at the moment.

It wasn't anywhere near as bad as he'd expected it to be, as long as he didn't think about it. If he did, well, then it wasn't good. Sunlord, please let me return to myself soon.

:KARAL, WHAT DID YOU DO?!: Altra appeared out of nowhere, startling Karal into shying and rearing...and almost falling over, because he hadn't quite mastered that yet.

I turned into a horse.

:Well, don't.:

Karal snorted. This was beyond my choice, Altra. Fandom Weirdness moves to its own will.

The 'cat just groaned and closed his eyes.

[ooc: the horse and the cat are awaiting someone specific, though they don't know it yet, but the post is open before that for all your loose horse needs.]

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Just this time, to be completely certain, Jeff had wrapped Nana's leash around his hand several times to make sure she didn't take off and maul anyone. He was humming quietly to himself, some tune with a lot of high notes--

And then she saw the horse. Four wraps of leash slipped off Jeff's hand, sending him down into the dirt, forming several bruises and caking his face in mud.

It was just an ordinary Tuesday morning for Jeffrey Murdock. "So long," he croaked.

:And thanks for all the fish,: Altra replied, tail twitching back and forth exactly like a metronome.

Karal threw up his head and snorted, in rhythym, and his tail started swishing in time with Altra's, as Altra added, :So sad that it should come to this.:

Nana was dashing. She was a dashing dog with a dashing purpose-- one push of her back legs and she was stood on the picnic table, another and she landed-- not quite so certainly-- on Karal's back.

And howled. Perfectly in tune.

Jeff pushed himself off the floor. "We tried to warn you all but oh --"

She modulated her howling accordingly.

Karal oofed and bared his teeth, ready to drop his head and buck her off.

But then suddenly...suddenly, he didn't want to. Suddenly, he was whinnying in tune (for a given value of tune) with Nana's howls.

Altra leapt gracefully onto Karal's rump, and then up onto Nana's back, front paws on her head, and sung, mindvoice ringing out to anyone near enough to hear it.

:...dear?
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect:

Karal tossed his mane, threw up his head, and started to dance, front legs crossing as he jigged sideways.

Edited 2008-03-04 10:48 (UTC)

Jeff picked a twig up off the floor and held it like a cane, feeling oddly compelled to dance-- sideways, then in the other direction, then back in the old one--

"For all the natural wonders that grow around yoooou..."

Nana howled on 'you'. It was oddly fitting.

Karal kept dancing, hoofs hitting the ground in a perfect beat, snorting along in time.

Altra kept singing, and he added a distinctive Siamese yowl to go with his telepathic caterwauling. :So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish.:

Nana dug her nails a little into Karal's back, just to maintain the proper grip. It didn't stop her from howling, high and low notes, on and on in the right places.

Jeff skipped in place. "The world's about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed!" he sang, cheerfully.

That hurt, and now it was teeth snapping in time to the music instead of hooves beating. Karal slowed until he was dancing on the spot, lifting one hoof after the other and putting them down exactly where they'd been.

Altra threw back his head, yowling and broadcasting, and stood up taller on Nana's back. :Lie back and let the planet dissolve.:

Jeff turned his head over his shoulder to give Altra a heads up as he tapped across the grounds.

"Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet!"

There was a kind of manic conviction in his voice.

Altra yowled and Nana howled, the two voices mingling to create a crescendo of feline/canine harmonisation. :Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women.:

Karal threw his front legs out as far as he could, tapping slowly after Jeff, mane and tail bouncing in time.

:So long, so long, so long, so long, so long...:

Jeff's voice was truly jubilant (and could probably be heard for miles) -- "So long, so long, so long, so long! And THANKS!"

The Saint Bernard's howl reached epic heights. Then fell short.

:FOR ALL THE FISH: A yowl and a whinny and then there was silence.

Karal flicked his ears in a way best described as 'umm'.

It was dark.

A few seconds later, Jeff realised this was because he had his eyes closed and his arms spread. He quickly dropped his arms, then opened his eyes, and went "...Er. I guess I'll be-- going. Then."

Nana made a valiant and rather terrified attempt to scramble off Karal's back.

Altra leapt straight up in the air, landing with total aplomb on a nearby picnic table.

And then he very quickly started sauntering away and not looking back.

Karal shook himself violently and glared at Nana, giving into the urge to stomp one hoof in her direction. And snort. Loudly.

Jeff pointed awkwardly in one direction, glanced in another, and then wandered off into a third. Nana shook herself thoroughly, shot Karal-the-horse one more brilliantly confused look, then trundled off into the fourth direction her master had indicated.

Karal watched them go, then turned to stare after Altra.

That was just odd.

And he went back to grazing, trailing his way across the grass in yet another direction.

And then-- then it happened.

Jeff stopped walking.

Nana stopped walking.

Both of them shot each other equally confused looks. Suddenly, the world seemed to have halted-- seemed to be waiting, for some momentous, preposterous moment, stalling for something--

And then a horse and a firecat slid back into view from opposite ends.

"SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!"

Horse and Firecat were side stepping in perfect time, Altra under Karal's belly.

:So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?:

Karal snorted. oh dear

:Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet.:

Edited 2008-03-04 11:37 (UTC)

Jeff waggled his eyebrows, grinning like something far beyond even a fiend-- "Especially tiny tots and your pregnant wo-men!"

For a Saint Bernard, Nana was really quite apt at howling along as Jeff made a valiant attempt to dance right in front of Karal's horsey face, "So long, so long, so long, so long..."

Karal shook his mane and put his head right down low so his nose was just barely not touching Jeff's, hooves flying as he matched Jeff step for step.

Altra jumped up on Karal's back and yowled. :So long, so long, so long, so long, so long.:

"And thanks!" Jeff twisted around on his heel, closing his eyes in joy and spreading his arms to the invisible audience yet again, "For all the--"

And then he was hit in the head with a fish.

"What--"

He stared. And dropped the fish like it was on fire. "This is weird," he said, practically rushing away and stumbling over his own feet as he did, "This is really really weird!"

That, apparently, was the last official judgement of Jeff-- and he sped, Saint Bernard-first, into the town, towards the hotel.

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