2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday Afternoon

[whenshewasnice]

So, guess you couldn't leave Peter alone for too long. Or maybe he was feeling particularly frustrated with his foxness today. Natalie didn't know. What she did know was that she'd come back from her visit to Clint's office and found her desk in disarray, and Mr. Moxy hissing at Peter like he'd really crossed some kind of line by messing up Natalie's workspace.

She'd left the cat in the room and ushered the fox out into the hallway with her. She'd been meaning to go for a snack, anyway. "It was because I took the laptop with me, wasn't it?" she asked, as they were entering the common room. "Already told you you can't use it, anyway."

Peter the fox seemed to give her an indignant look.

"What?" she asked. "You'd just scratch it. We've been over this. You don't even have your own independent narrative." Too bad foxes couldn't roll their eyes all that well, though she got the message. "And don't give me that look, I know you don't. So, there's nothing you can or should be doing on a computer right now."

Was that a whine?

"You're a fox. Deal with it."

She was going to get them some cereal right now. And yes, newbies, arguing with animals was a thing that occasionally happened in this town. In case you hadn't figured that out yet.

[ooc: Open!]

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[whenshewasnice]

Really good thing Natalie could check the meanings of his eyebrow raises from his narrative, then, wasn't it?

"Hi," she said, a little on the dry side, then nodded at the fox. "Peter Wiggin."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade snickered and got closer to the fox. "Seriously?"

[whenshewasnice]

"Yes, seriously," Natalie replied, not a lot less dryly. "I know it's hard to believe with the lack of suit and everything."

Peter looked at Cade... pretty warily, yes.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"A fox wearing a suit would just be karking ridiculous," Cade decided just as dryly. "Does he do this a lot?"

Because Cade hadn't heard about it, if so.

[whenshewasnice]

"Well, it's his second time," she shrugged. "Does that seem like a lot?"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Cade said. "I've turned into a fox zero times."

[OOC: And I sleeeep. Pick up tomorrow?]

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie shrugged. "Well, I've turned into a snake once," she remarked. "It happens. Fandom thing."

[Tomorrow is fine! *tucks you in*]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Huh," Cade said. "Maybe I should ask about that dog Stiles keeps bringing to our room."

[whenshewasnice]

"That could just be a dog." That did happen. She had a cat, after all. "But you can never be sure, here. I suppose technically even my cat could be a human, somehow."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"That could be awkward some morning," Cade said with a snort.

[whenshewasnice]

"Surprising," Natalie corrected, mostly because she didn't get awkward that easily. "Inconvenient, maybe."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Think it'll speak Basic when it turns into a person?" Cade wondered.

[whenshewasnice]

Oh look, Cade, you said something that seemed to spark some genuine (if mild) interest in Natalie! "Don't know," she said. "Is that what I'd call English?"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade nodded, running his hand through his hair. "Well, mostly. We have different vehicles and technology, but I can understand everyone here."

[whenshewasnice]

"Minor lexical differences do not a different language make," Natalie agreed. "I guess it would be interesting to see what other names the people of Fandom have for this one."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Would it?" Cade replied. "How many languages do you speak other than Basic?" He frowned slightly, then corrected himself, "English."

[whenshewasnice]

"Just one, fluently," Natalie replied, flicking her bangs away from her eyes. "That'd be French. I can read a few others if the text's simple enough, though."

Because she was a nerd.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I can speak Huttese," Cade said, "which probably isn't as pretty because Huttese is just about the ugliest language ever. And I can curse pretty fluently in a half-dozen other languages."

[whenshewasnice]

"I can't do that." But she looked... vaguely amused, all the same. In that special way of hers where you couldn't quite tell if the amusement was even there or not. "Where's Huttese from?"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"It's going to sound pretty obvious," Cade said, "but it's from a species called the Hutts."

[whenshewasnice]

Okay, Natalie's amusement flickered a little more obviously in her expression.

"Mm, imaginative."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"They didn't ask me," Cade said.

[whenshewasnice]

"And would it have been any better if they had?"

It was just the logical question!

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Probably not," Cade admitted, "but it would have been more entertaining."