The first floor lobby, Monday morning

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys was looming near the stairs, watching the genet.

It was tumbling madly in a pile of lingerie, twisting, jumping, pouncing in pure, almost unholy glee.

Sometime in the night, something had left a variety of underwear scattered across the lobby and draped over various bits of furniture. Gladys wasn't sure what to make of it so she simply kept watching, pondering the mysteries of rogue underwear.

[ooc: open of course! Mod your underwear if you want to find it in the lobby!]

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River walked through the lobby, noting the accumulated underwear, including a few items that looked like her own. She smiled at Gladys. "People might take offence if you start collecting their underwear."

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"I Did Not Collect It. It Was Here When I Came In From Outside." The genet picked up something pink and filmy and trotted across the lobby. "I Did Not Realise That It Belonged To People. I Assumed That It Had Simply Appeared." Given all the strange things that happened on this island, it had made sense.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River crouched down to study the genet. "Does it eat clothes?" she asked. "Berthold does. Might have appeared, but these look like mine." She held up something white and blue.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

The genet gave her a look of total indifference, then climbed onto the couch and made itself a nest. "It Eats Mice And Bugs And Frogs And Small Birds. I Do Not Think She Eats Clothes," she said. "If Those Are Yours Then The One It Has Is Probably Someone Else's?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Highly probable," River said, picking up a few more things that belonged to her. "Perhaps they could be neatly arranged so that people would find them more easily. Still knitting?"

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"No. I Used All The Wool To Make Dildo Cozies. I Tried To Give Them Away, But Only One Person Was Interested." Gladys extricated the filmy pink thing from under the genet - and if the glow in here eyes was a bit wistful, it was only for a moment - then started gathering up the underwear. "One Of My Teachers Wanted Them, So I Gave Then To Him. I Would Like To Learn To Knit Something Else."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River raised an eyebrow. "People might need new underwear," she suggested.

[who wanted the cozies?]

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys looked down at the underwear she was holding. "I Do Not Think People Would Want Knitted Underwear."

[Inara and Barney!]

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Most of them are knitted by machines," River objected, holding up one of her own pairs.

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"Then I Could Knit Them. Do You Know How?" she asked, setting the underwear where it would be easily visible.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"A matter of recalculating the pattern according to thinkness of available yarn," River replied. "Adapt an existing item."

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Her eyes flickered. "I Will Try. Do You Know Where I Can Get More Wool?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Turtle and Canary?" River suggested. They seemed to have a lot of things.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Amidst the silk and lace and cotton, the skimpy frilly bits and the plainer ones, were some long rectangular... things that looked a bit like dirty dishcloths.

When Sokka spotted them, he turned bright red and started collecting them as quickly as possible.