The Roof, Sunday Afternoon

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Katchoo lugged the easel, the paints and palette, and a couple of the blank canvases she'd bought earlier in the week up to the roof, setting herself up in the corner with the garden of spiky plants. It had been a long time since she'd had a chance to do any artwork, and painting was still something fairly new to her; now that she actually had her life to herself again (for however long that lasted) she welcomed the chance to try her hand at.

Acrylics. She'd never painted with acrylics before, either, and though she'd never admit it out loud as she squeezed generous daubs of various colors onto the palette, she had no idea what it was going to be like. Some classically-trained artist somewhere would probably have a fit if they saw her guessing her way through this, she thought, lighting up a cigarette.

Absently, she dipped her brush into a color at random and began to let it trail over the canvas. This was familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, but it was soothing.

[OOC: Open like a roof is. Mind the temperamental artist, but she's a bit mellower today.]

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"Or while you're locked in the kitchen," he murmured, mostly to himself it seemed.

"And while I've never met a fairy queen and I think that's all hogswash, I can at least claim to have known a Witch. Anything more than that is religion and conjecture, even where I'm from."

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"I used to live in Houston," Katchoo drawled, "so depending on who you asked on a street corner, witches could've been real."

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"Houston? Where's that?"

He knew of New York, Sunnydale, and Kansas.

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"Texas," said Katchoo, and the distaste practically dripped off the word. "Hot, noisy, and full of aging businessmen."

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"It sounds like the Emerald City," he said with a faint smirk of his own.

"I was living there for a few months before I ended up here."

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"Lived there two years ago, Houston, I mean," Katchoo replied; mindful of the new necessity for a cover story, she added, "Before I went to Columbus. Ohio. Midwest. Not quite as hot, but not much more fun, either."

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"I lived at a mauntery until I was six, lived at Kiamo Ko in the Vinkus most of my life, and after the Witch was killed, I brought her murderer back to the Emerald City, where I lived on the streets avoiding the Home Guard until I ended up here," he said, succinct and matter of fact. If they were going to share histories, he might as well get it done.

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If Katchoo was surprised -- in an oddly grateful way -- to hear that he'd lived on the streets as well, she didn't let it show, but she did let out a brief nonverbal sound of acknowledgment.

"Yeah, can definitely see how it's a step up, being here," was what she said instead.

[OOC: So many apologies for slowness; exhausted and keep drifting off. :/]

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[sleep happens; if you want to SP is totally cool]

He noticed the sound and put it in the back of his mind to ruminate on before he went to sleep tonight, as he did with most things that he didn't understand yet.

"Room and board and education. Can't beat it, really."

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"Ain't that the truth," Katchoo said, although she could think of a couple of things she'd prefer in place of an education. "And apparently a free trip to see icebergs up close and personal."

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"I was a kitten at the time, unfortunately, but I've heard it was a good trip."

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The paintbrush clattered back into the easel tray.

". . . a kitten?!?"

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He nodded.

"It shocked me at first as well, just considering the differences between men and animals, but it happens here often enough.

"I woke up on Thursday morning as a kitten and scampered my way to my sister's room. She took care of me for the weekend, but I missed out on the glaciers."