[Mingler-ish] Brats and smug rats

[zhany_silver]

Zhane has had a great time keeping his ' promise' to Wolfram. In fact, he's never been so amused - after some work (and this is why it took so long to happen), he's finally managed to work out a sign that reads exactly what he wants it to read.

It's pink.  It's in blinking lights. It's absolutely obnoxious. It's also in the common room.

We offer our

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[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore can read fairly well, but he's slow at it and tends to trip over some of the Bigger Words. Thus he's sitting in front of the Blinking Sign, reading the words Very Slowly and Carefully, though the blinking is making it a bit Hard for Him to Read. He may be tilting his head and scratching his ear with a hind hoof and muttering a bit to himself.

"Dreadful blinking, can hardly read it...What's this about donkeys?"

He got that word, at least.

[zhany_silver]

The voice is decidedly not one he knows, and Zhane is made curious by the question.

He peeks through the other door, discreetly.

He'll gawk at the 'donkey' in a minute.

[thistle_muncher]

He reads it over again, even more slowly. "'We... of-fer... our... deep-est.. app-pol... app-poll-o... app-poll-oh-gees... to... all... donkeys...and...' Oh bother, it blinks too much. Hurts my eyes."

[zhany_silver]

Throughout the painful reading, Zhane actually poked his head out of his hiding place. "Apologies," he completes. Pause. -- "You're actually a donkey?"

Yes, he does like to state the obvious on occasion.

[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore turns his head, looking up at Zhane. "Yes, I'm a donkey. I'm Eeyore," he says. "Can you read this sign? It's too bright and it blinks too much for me to read easily."

[zhany_silver]

"It's an apology, actually," Zhane replies. "To donkeys and monkeys, for having been used to describe a certain snotty lord."

This donkey looks decent, actually. The prank actually makes, well, sense. Means something.

If he had the cultural background to harbor such a thought, Zhane would currently be hoping the monkey in residence isn't King Kong.

[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore looks at the sign, then back to Zhane again. "I suppose the brightness will make it easy to see, but can he read it? Rather hard to read, might just be me, though. I'm still learning to read."

[zhany_silver]

"That's alright, I can turn it off so you can read it, if you like," Zhane offers. He's not really weirded out by the talking donkey - then again, he used to fighting monsters, back home.

[thistle_muncher]

"Much appreciated, might make it easier, thank you kindly," Eeyore says, already a bit less perplexed.

[zhany_silver]

Zhane then turns the light off, nods to the donkey. "There. Better?"

[thistle_muncher]

"Much better," he says, and starts scanning the sign again. "'We... offer... our... deepest... apologies... to... all... donkeys... and... monkeys...
for... bringing... them... up... in... re-la-tion-ship... to... His... Snotty... Lordship'." He pauses and looks up at Zhane. "Who's his lordship? A king?"

[zhany_silver]

Zhane smirks, he can't help it. "You'll have to excuse me - prince of something, as I recall. Guy was so full of himself, I barely listened to what he had to say."

[thistle_muncher]

He nods at this. "I know someone like that. Owl, uses Very Big Words," he says. "Too big, hard to understand, but what can you do?"

[zhany_silver]

"Is Owl nice, though? Because my Mr. Wolfram Von Annoying actually isn't."

We imagine Zhane is going to keep a notebook, somewhere, in which he'll be consigning all the 'von's he can come up with for Wolfie.

[thistle_muncher]

"Rather pompous, full of himself," Eeyore replies with a certain disdain. "Do pompous people use Big Words, or does using Big Words cause one to become pompous?" he asks.

[zhany_silver]

"Probably a bit of both," Zhane replies. "Or maybe it's the big words that use the pompous people."