third floor common room - tuesday around dinner time

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Someone was experimenting.

After today, after everything today, he'd decided that he needed chocolate. But not just chocolate. Spiced chocolate. And not just spiced chocolate. But spiced chocolate with a touch of coffee for bitterness and a little bit of vanilla to balance it and warm gooey--

Let it be put this way: aside from making up a light rice and vegetable dish for dinner, he's also whipped up two trays worth of brownies, rather modified from the original recipe in one of the cook books he'd gotten.

Meanwhile, the bunny guarded Liir's bag and his tome-o-magical-learning from his spot on the far side of the counter. Liir thanked him with scritches and a kiss or two whenever he could step away from the stove, as well as cilantro and carrots so... life wasn't half bunny bad for anyone today.

[open as common rooms are and mmmm chocolate]

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[makescherries.livejournal.com]

Cimorene had pretty much had it with the spontaneous singing about her one true love and the twittering birds. She figured she'd be at least free of the later inside. Coming into the room, she nodded at the boy and the bunny.

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He smiled and waved at her. The bunny perked up, but was mostly involved with the cilantro.

"Hello," he said, a little nervous as he didn't know her.

"Brownie?"

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Cimorene had wanted to say thank you, she really had. "It's a guest! It's a guest! Sakes alive, well I'll be blessed! Wine's been poured and thank the Lord. I've had the napkins freshly pressed. With dessert. She'll want tea. And my dear that's fine with me" Came out instead. "Bother!"

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"Brownie, actually," he said with a faint smile, quite willing to ignore the interruption. It was the typical Ozian way of handling things.

[ooc: heading home from work back in about an hour]

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Strangely enough, that was also Cimorene's way. "Thank you, I'm Cimorene." The princess was half shocked that she got that much out before
"-Undefeated
Riding high
And the nicest guy
not conceited".
In an un-princess like move, Cimorene shoved the brownie in her mouth.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Considering his only experience with royalty involved the other children at Kiamo Ko, he didn't particularly note anything wrong with that.

"Liir," he said with another smile. "And the bunny is Andrew, who isn't usually a bunny."

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"I hope he doesn't start hopping and trying to braid my hair." Cimorene muttered darkly. Apparently, she couldn't sing with a brownie jammed in her throat.

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"No," he said with a faint smirk, "generally, he settles in his pocket on my bag or cuddles up with me. At least, as a bunny. Otherwise, he's brilliant and handsome and goes to classes... and cuddles up with me."

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Cimorene opened her mouth to reply and felt a song swell up. Another brownie got shoved in her mouth. "Do you know how he turned into a bunny?" She said around the brownie. "Pardon my manners."

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He shook his head.

"No pardon necessary. They're just fine. And I believe it's called quote Fandom weirdness unquote," he said. "I've been told he'll be back in a week or so."

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Cimorene kept the brownie in her mouth to keep the singing down. The crumbs though...she automatically cleaned up the mess she was making. "This kind of thing happen often?"

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He reached into the fridge and pulled out the milk, pouring her a glass. She'd probably feel the burn soon enough.

"The singing or my boyfriend currently being a small fuzzy bunny?"

Said boyfriend looked up at the mention and Liir picked him up to cuddle him to his chest before scritching under his chin. Andrew rubbed Liir's fingers and made a soft grinding noise.

Liir smiled.

"Apparently, both are somewhat normal though others find it similarly inconvenient."

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"Back home, people turned into animals all the time." Cimorene mumbled, still keeping her mouth full. "The singing...is annoying."

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"It has it's charms, but not of many of them," he agreed with a shrug, handing over the glass of milk.

"And people generally don't turn to animals where I'm from. There are Animals and they talk, but no changing from one to the other. Well, from animal to Animal and Animal to animal, but never humans to animals or Animals."

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Cimorene took the glass with a great full nod. "Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true." Her face very clearly stated WTF.

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He most certainly didn't laugh.

Then he opened his mouth to say something and, because he certainly didn't laugh, something quite different than he'd intended came out.

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true."

...

He shared a look with the bunny. At least he had a relatively like baritone.

"You know, I thought I was done for the day."

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"If this lasts more than a day? Small animals are getting cooked." Cimorene informed him. "Not...Andrew." She added hastily.

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That got a very arch look.

"And what do animals have to do with all this?"

He grew up with more animals than people around. It left an impression.

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"They were singing. And joining as a background choir. And trying to braid my hair." Cimorene said dryly. "The kind of things you do to proper princesses."

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He snorted.

"Probably no more happily than you were singing," he said.

"Animals aren't any more friendly than people. The fur, however, makes people think they might be. It's rather odd."

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"They've never been yelled at by a squirrel." The scary part was that Cimorene had been.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I've gotten one hell of a talking to from a Badger," he said plainly.

...no really.

[makescherries.livejournal.com]

"Did he at least offer good advice?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Not to tarry on the way to the Emerald City," he said. "Which was good enough for the night."

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"I had a frog tell me where I could go to meet some dragons." Cimorene explained, half delighted to not hear singing.