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Third Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

So Rikku had found a grumpy kitty in her Flight class, and lo and behold, it was the Worf!kitty! She'd totally have to take him back to Wellspring Arms tomorrow morning when she went in to work.

For now, she was going to keep him with her, and hope he didn't kill Petey.

Hmmm. This called for a few hours in the Common Room.

"Who's such a grumpy kitty?" she cooed, at the clearly miserable angry unhappy cat who was most likely plotting her death. "Who is that?"

(OOC: so, so, so open! IMPORTANT NOTE: the Worf!kitty hates (A) being a kitty (B) everything and especially (C) you. Some light modding is okay so long as you remember those three important points. Bring your own bandages!)

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"Too bad," Ella said, still oblivious. "That would have been pleasant for him, if he was the right size and not too large, or too small."

"I miss riding," she added.

Rikku stared off into space for a few long, long seconds, trying very hard not to have another coughing fit.

"No, he's ..." She cleared her throat. "He was ... a ... good size. Probably ... missed ... riding, too."

Yup. Probably did.

"You ... go riding a lot?"

If she kept her eyes really, really huge, that would keep her from coughing. This was her theory, and she was going to test it.

"Not as often as I would like; I never had my own stallion, and those are really best for distances," Ella confided. "I've a centaur colt at home; I wonder what he's grown to these days?"

She noticed Rikku's eyes getting big. "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine," Rikku chirped, blinking several times until her eyes were sort of back to normal. "I bet he's huge. The centaur colt. I don't mean that in a bad way. Uh. Not that there is a bad way. I'm fine!"

"...bad way?" Ella was completely lost. "I have his picture in my room, if you would like to see," she said finally. "And it's all mine now, so I can have guests without worrying I'll disturb Turtle."

She was trying to get used to the idea of saying that.

"Oooooh, neat!" Rikku said, clinging to the new topic that didn't involve anything that could be innuendo, she hoped. "I have a single, too! Hermione left in May. It's kinda nice, having privacy to have guests over? But it gets quiet sometimes."

"Turtle is moving upstairs with Jeff," Ella explained. "It feels like I have so much space, but ... you're right. It will get quiet."

"Ooooooh, they're moving in together?" Rikku said, bouncing. "That's adorable! They're so cute! They used to do joint-radio and now it's just her. The space is nice, if you're someone who likes having space. I think maybe I'm not used to it? We were all kinda crammed in, at home, so we had all her stuff and my stuff and then boom, she left and it's just empty."

Ramble mode: on.

"I think Petey misses her, but Petey might be too dim to remember she was there," she added.

"I was an only child," Ella said. "But at school, I shared with six girls, so just one was a relief. Though being alone again will be ... well, never mind, I'll get used to it."

"Who's Petey?"

"I've got an older brother, but he's stupid," Rikku said cheerfully. Well, he was. "We all kinda lived overlapping back Home, you know? Everybody knew everybody else's business. It's kinda sad seeing her half of the room just ... sitting there, you know? At least I've got room for machina stuff."

She bounced again. "Petey's my cat! I named him Cuban Pete. After the song. Which I sing a lot, and it annoys people, so I only do that with people I want to annoy? Like Hades. We'd crash into his office and mutiny and serenade him."

Ramble mode might be stuck on.

Ella laughed. "I'm glad someone got the better of Hades."

She was still thinking about the empty side of her room. "Do people normally get new roommates if theirs move out? Because that was part of why Turtle moved in with Jeff. They didn't want him to get a different roommate."

"They can," Rikku said, considering it. "You can ask them to put a new person in your room. I totally forgot to, last time, so I thought, hey, I'll just chill out by myself. I didn't realize it'd get weird, you know? I guess I'll have to sign up for one this time and hope it's not a guy."

Some people didn't mind rooming with guys, but that always seemed like it'd be weird, to her.

"They can give you a guy?" Ella yelped. "And you can't tell them not to?"

She looked horrified.

"I don't know!" Rikku said, flailing. "I've never tried before. Maybe there's a box you can check? There'd have to be a box you can check, right?"

Because ... a guy, just hanging out while you changed? Seriously.

"Maybe I'll just ... keep my room a single? I mean. It's not so bad! And there aren't any guys, unless Reno --"

Let's not finish that thought, Rikku.

"A box, of course," Ella agreed, wringing her hands.

She had a pretty good idea there wasn't a box. "Rikku? I know we barely know each other, and I know this is strange, but ... oh, it's too weird, I don't want to ask and put you on the spot."

"Do you want to move in together?" Rikku blurted out. "Or is that not what you were gonna say? No pressure or anything! You don't have to! My room's messy anyway, I mean, it's better than it used to be, but Petey's weird and you totally didn't mean that so I'll shut up now! Sorry! What were you gonna say?"

"That is what I was going to say," Ella said. "I know I don't have to, but if you want me to, and if we get along -- and I liked you in the cabin -- I would love to. Reno can visit and everything."

"Where do you live?"

"I think that'd be awesome," Rikku said, nodding along. "I ... kinda really miss having a roommate, you know? And I'll keep my side neat and Petey's harmless. He's dim and cheery and he likes to cuddle. And I'll make sure Reno knocks and everything, and we can -- keep the visiting to his room. Uh."

She blushed, and gestured oddly. "Sometimes ... uh ... I ... stay over, in his room? He has a single so he's got ... an ... extra bed and all."

He did. She never used it, but he totally did.

Ella gave a confused smile, a slight blush rising in her own cheeks. "That must be very ... handy," she ventured. "To have extra space. And I would like to have a roommate, and a pet, even if he is less than bright. I'm supposed to get a parrot but I'm sure we can teach Petey to respect it."

"I'm sure we could," Rikku said, nodding. "Ooooh, a parrot, really? Parrots are kinda big, aren't they? I mean, it could probably beat him up. He's not all that tough, he just likes to play. And he's really sweet, he's a little cuddlelump, he's just ... you know. Dim."

He really, really was.

"Oh! I'm in 308, it's just down the hall. Where are you?"

"It would have to be a smaller one to fit in a dorm room," Ella mused. "Maybe a parakeet instead. I mostly want to teach one to talk. The cook has one at home." She shrugged. "Right now? 210, upstairs. There's usually better tea in this kitchen."

"Oh, that would be awesome!" Rikku giggled. "Could I teach it Al Bhed? We could teach it fun things to say like 'oh no you di'int!' Or is that mean?"

She considered. "If the tea's better here, do you just wanna move in with me? I mean, instead of the other way around? Or do you have a lot of stuff to move and that'd be a huge pain in the butt?"

"Mandy's says 'don't kiss me' in Ogrese," Ella reported happily. "I think half the fun is getting them to say silly things. can you teach me Al Bhed? I love languages."

She thought for a moment. "I've only my clothes and a few books, and I haven't been here as long, have I? I'll move."

"You want to learn it? Really?" Rikku's jaw dropped, and this was full-on bouncing. "It's my language, from back home! Nobody here speaks it, except Lulu knows some and Reno's learning it! It's not hard to learn at all, although everyone says it's weird trying to figure out how to pronounce things? But it so isn't."

Sure, they had bizarre words like cdnyhka, but the pronunciation was at least consistent. Which had driven her up a wall when learning Yevonite.

"Are you sure? You don't have to. I mean. I don't wanna be all, hey, we go to MY ROOM, DARN IT, you know?"

Ella opened her eyes wide to emphasize her sincerity. "You have no idea how much I like languages," she stated. "My best friend" -- and there she felt a twinge - "at my last school was Ayorthaian, from a kingdom west of mine. I made her spend hours teaching me her tongue."

She shook her head. "I wouldn't have offered if I minded."

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