The Roof, Thursday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

After saying goodbye to Triela, Karla'd had two options: go to her room and worry or do something, anything else. Since she had pretty much spent the past week doing the former, she'd opted for the latter today. Rather than sit on her bed and brood, only putting on her cheerful face when someone stopped by, she stayed inside only long enough to change into her bodystocking and then practically flung herself into the air.

A few laps around the island and she'd actually been feeling better. The exertion was enough to take her mind off the maenad things and she found herself in much better spirits by the time she came winging back to the dorm roof.

[Open like a rooftop, for both flyers and not!]

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[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"It's a good day for flying," offered Scuttle from where he'd plopped on his butt nearby, rocking back a little bit with his wings on his feet.

He may have forgotten for a moment, what he'd come up here for, and was just enjoying all the people and the sights and the flying around.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"And talking," Maladicta added, giving him a look to make sure there was no Gnome or Nac Mac Feegle on his back.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Always talking!" Scuttle agreed with a nod and then stopped rocking and settled forward a little with a smile on his beak.

How he managed a smile on his beak was something else, too.

"My, my, my!" he commented, looking up at the girl's umbrella. "That's a mighty fine hopplehogflanner you've got there! Not even ripped or anything!"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"..."

Okay, this was a bit much for even her.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Clearly, the girl was just modest about the lovely things she had.

"May I see it?" he asked. "I'd never seen one completely in tact like that before!"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I don't think I know what you're referring to," she said, finally recovering from her break with reality. This time without any Vietnam flashsides.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"The hopplehogflanner," Scuttle repeated helpfully, pointing a second with his wings before the gestures came in. "With all the...flooflarfing and the hookonle and the, you know, scabblescrews."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

See, in real nature, this poor creature would have been eaten long ago. "The umbrella?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

It was true.

It was so true.

"The what now?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

She tapped the handle with her thumb. "It's an umbrella. Tell me, have you been in the sun long?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"All day, actually!" Scuttle admitted proudly. "I usually spend all day out on a rock in the middle of the ocean, but then Sebastian came to me, and--"

A light went off inside the seagull's head.

"That's right! I'm supposed to be looking for Ariel, because there's some trouble on account of those legs of hers. Have you seen her?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Ah, theory proven. Very good. "Could you describe her?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Oh, Maladica. You had to ask, didn't you?

"She's about yay tall," he said, with his very limited wingspan, "has a lot of great hair and some legs."

Helpful, wasn't he?

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes!" Maladicta replied with a toothy grin. "In the kitchens. In the--oh, what is it called? Where food is placed to warm?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Armpits?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Exactly! Why don't you check there?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Doubtfully, Scuttle lifted his wings. "I think I'd notice," he said. "Plus, I don't think she'd fit."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Maladicta just stared. "You mean... you didn't know?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Know what?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"About humans." Silly, silly bird.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"They...have feet?"

There weren't a whole lot of humans out on rocks in the middle of the ocean, you know.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

She looked around like she was giving a secret away. "We can turn into something much smaller. If the need arises."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Even Scuttle had to be skeptical of that one, and he scratched the top of his head with his wing. "What if...what if you were a mermaid who became a human, could you still do that?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Now that might be different..."