open RP: an unpopcorning, quiet and without incident

[not_so_stellar]

(( With mod permission and due process followed, here is Narcissa Malfoy. Narcissa does not remember her prior time(s) at Hogwarts, unless and until we find it amusing. Barring that, she's straight outta HBP

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[ringo_raver]

"Hehehehehehehe," a voice said in the corner. Half in the shadows....okay, half in the wall was a shinigami. He was laughing because she looked so miserable. Reminded him of Mikami in fact.

Looks like Ryuk's found a new special friend!

[not_so_stellar]

Narcissa did not know the source of this mockery. Her eyelashes gummed together with butter, she could not even see him. She half suspected the laughter to be part of some inner nightmare.

[ringo_raver]

Vanishing back into the hallway, Ryuk grinned. He knew what would get the new person (Narcissa Malfoy, the eyes had said)'s attention.

Falling through the floor to the adjacent rooms below, Ryuk hovered until he was at just the right spot...then poked his head up through the floor at Narcissa.

"Hi."

[not_so_stellar]

Gasping, she scrabbled backward a little, slipping in the grease. "Oh!"

[ringo_raver]

"Hahahaha. You're funny." Ryuk rose up a little more to prop his elbows on the floor.

[not_so_stellar]

They had never studied a spirit like this in Care of Magical Creatures, nor Defense Against the Dark Arts. Narcissa groped at her side for the reticule where she kept her wand. Her fingers skittered through butter and found nothing of use.

"What are you?" She could not expect a sensible answer; she asked out of reflex, not reason.

[ringo_raver]

"I'm a shinigami. Or...you know, a god of death. Name's Ryuk." He grinned. "You amuse me, Narcissa."

[not_so_stellar]

She froze.

The thing knew her name.

"Are you among His servants?" she asked, holding very still.

[ringo_raver]

"Who, the Shinigami King? Nah. We're not really servants. Hell, I don't even know why he's the king."

[not_so_stellar]

"I have no idea what you mean," Narcissa informed the creature.

[ringo_raver]

"See, there are a bunch of us shinigami, and we spend most of our day gambling and writing names in the Death Note, and one of us is the king!"

[not_so_stellar]

Narcissa was silent, judging this the better part of valor.

[ringo_raver]

"Helloooooo," Ryuk said, waving a hand in front of Narcissa. "You're not amusing me."

[not_so_stellar]

This only unsettled her further, and she stared straight ahead.

[ringo_raver]

"Fine. I'll go bother Maddie then." Ryuk slid back down through the floor and went to do just that.