Third Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

[bitchprince]

After completing his go at Gun Club, Arthur returned to the dorms only to realise he didn't much feel like dealing with Leto yet. He'd come up with a proper revenge later. Right now, he craved a chance to sit somewhere, to fight off the sense that was dawning in the wake of yesterday's upset. He sat, and idly considered the Teevee.

Maybe she's just afraid to lose a friend, Merlin had said, and while Arthur was not going to stretch as far as to call her that aloud, he had to admit that the expression on her face had... seemed...

It was easier, dealing with sorcerers, when all you did was distract Father and find them quick shelter elsewhere. Here, there was little escape from them. No matter what he did, they would remain, and the honest truth was that he bore them very little ill will.

Wasn't his father. He'd seen too much damage caused by it not to be wary, but...

Of course, that made him think of Liir. He wasn't going to let thought of his conduct around him make him cringe.

So he sat. Subdued. Thinking.

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Comments

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"That's just my power," Dor replied. "In my world everyone has a magical ability but it never repeats. There is some crossover from time to time but I'm the only one in the history of Xanth who has this power."

"Hey, buddy," the couch whispered to Hannibal. "Have him ask me about what happened on me with the vampire and the chick in leather."

"No!" Dor ordered. "None of you is allowed to talk about that."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Vampire and the chick in leather?" Hannibal repeated, curious despite having the information come from a talking couch.

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"They had sex! On the couch!" Dor blurted out. "They're not allowed to tell the story."

He glared at all the furniture in the room. "Last time they did they added sound effects. They are not allowed to do that again."

All the items in the room let out an "Awww" of disappointment.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Oh, wow," Hannibal said, taking a rather large step away from the couch. "Oh god, all furniture you get around can do this? Your poor head."

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"It's anything inanimate actually," Dor replied. "Clothing, walls, floors, stones, etc. I've had the power since a few days after I was born so I'm used to it for the most part."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, so you probably know...a lot of weird things?" Hannibal asked. "And things you really never ever needed to know."

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"I try not to pry!" Dor said with a little more emphasis than he probably needed to. "But sometimes I just blunder into things. So... yeah. Stuff I never needed to know."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Poor guy," Hannibal said sympathetically. "I thought just overhearing an uncomfortable piece of gossip was bad. You get to hear almost anything. No way you can control it?"

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"For the most part I can," Dor admitted. "However if I live a while in a room or a house it kind of takes on a life of its own. I can command items not to speak or never to speak of a certain topic so that usually helps."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"That's quite the...yeah, I think it'd be cool at first but I think I might go insane," he said and laughed. "So, props that you haven't."

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"I don't need any props," Dor said holding up his hands. "I have enough objects around me as it is. And like I said I've grown up with this ability so I'm pretty used to it. Plus sometimes it can have a lot of benefits too. I was able to learn how to use a microwave and turn on the tv without someone helping me."

Yes. He's proud of turning on the TV.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"No, not actual prop-- never mind," Hannibal said, shaking his head. "And yeah, I guess it could be helpful. What's the strangest thing you've ever heard?"

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"Well there was the time when a harness on a centaur told me about an impotency spell his mate had cast on him," Dor said trying to think.

"What about me!" the sofa called out. "I told you about the-"

"Shut up. We've already heard about that," Dor snapped and the sofa groaned in disappointment.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Why would someone cast an impotency spell on someone their with?" Hannibal asked. "That sounds counterproductive."

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"Well you did say the strangest thing," Dor said with a shrug. "The centaur mentioned something about her being a tease. I really didn't understand the whole thing either."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Wow," Hannibal said and laughed. "Hope I don't ever have a partner that thinks of me like that."

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

"Well, I guess that's one way from keeping your mate from straying," Dor said with a chuckle. "Though it seems a little extreme."