Skull onna bar -

[bob_the_skull]

At least there's the possibility that he can talk now. It's not so bad being an air spirit in a skull if you can talk, but when even THAT is taken away - most of the advantages go straight down the toilet.

This is accentuated when a freaking EARTHQUAKE shakes the whole freakin' bar and rattles said spirit-in-a-skull along the top of the bar,

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[redsnout]

Raptor Red, being a predatory animal, can't help but be a little curious about a skull that someone has apparently left on the bar. Blinking, she steps up to the bar, and after a moment of eyeballing, shoves her snout forward to sniff at Bob. "Phhrr? Snhrt?"

[bob_the_skull]

"Hey now! No knockin' the skull off the bar. Easy now. I know your ancestor!"

[redsnout]

"Khht?" Red steps back, blinking again in surprise. While she understood what Bob just said, she's not quite sure what to make of the fact that it's a skull making noises, rather than something that's properly alive. She crouches down, tilting her head to side in attempt to see if there's something inside the skull that's making noise.

[bob_the_skull]

Bob makes the orange light pulse and says in his best approximation of a great booming voice:

"Pay no attention to the spirit in the skullllllll!"

[redsnout]

"YEEP!"

So it's a noise generally reserved for chicks. The light and sound coming from the skull are surprising, and Raptor Red automatically leaps back a yard or so. She keeps her distance as she stares at the skull, lowering her head while raising her foreclaws.

"Hsssss!"

[bob_the_skull]

Bob "Hsssssss!"'s right back.

"Small-brained animals," Bob mutters.

[redsnout]

"Ssquawrk!" The raptor decides she might as well face the skull-thing again-after all, it is just bone, even if it makes noise and light. And so she marches back up to Bob, her jaws gaped slightly to show off her teeth. (As well as part of her last meal, which si stuck in them. Dinosaur hygiene isn't the best.)

[bob_the_skull]

"Ooooh - look who has teeth."

Bob shifts the skull to 'bare' the skull's teeth.

"I have teeth too."

Bob probably shouldn't taunt the dino, but Bob has ego issues.

[redsnout]

Raptor Red looks at the said teeth, then snorts in a very non-impressed way. Human teeth, from her own experience, aren't worth squat. You can't shred anything with them.

Being unable to actually say this, she settles for giving Bob the most dubious look her limited facial expressions allows for. "Khht."

[bob_the_skull]

Bob snorts. "Like you're so much better than me."

He leaves it at that.

[redsnout]

Red bobs her head in a nod-something she's picked up from the humans, then wiggles her claws. Look, she's got claws, teeth, she can move-as she demonstrates, by turning in a circle. "Khht!"

[bob_the_skull]

"Ooooh."

Bob glances around for a Harry Dresden-shaped wizard.

"Dammit."

Glowy lights, chattering teeth, chomping, flickering lights - not as impressive as claws, but with a Harry, he could do all kinds of things.

"If only that blasted wizard would let me out of here."

[redsnout]

Raptor Red just snorts again-she doesn't know what a wizard is; as far as she can tell, the skull is just babbling at her and not doing anything interesting-it seems like noise and light is all it can do. So she decides to reach out with a claw, to see if poking Bob will make anything happen.

[bob_the_skull]

"HEY!" Bob snaps bony teeth at the claw. "No poking the skull!"

[redsnout]

While the raptor immediately pulls her claw back, she still hisses and snaps her own teeth. "Sss!"

[bob_the_skull]

"Yeah yeah. Where'd my books go."

Bob scoots the skull to the left, seemingly looking for books.