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[tookfoolery]

Pippin blinks as the door swings open. Merry has gone back to Brandy Hall and he is alone today, which is why he pauses in the door a moment. He glances over his shoulder, appearing uncertain. Looks at the bar

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[lichvell_r]

A weird-looking girl hops on a stool nearby. "Soda, please." Can of died carbonated drink appears, with a straw. With a breakfast like that, no surprise she looks so thin...

{*shrieks in fan-worshipping*)

[tookfoolery]

She looks -- interesting, yes. Pippin has met a girl with blue hair, though, and a woman who painted herself green, so he only stares at her a moment or two.

No, he is more interested in whatever it is that she is drinking.

After a moment, never shy, he asks, "What's that?"

[OOC: Hee, thank you!]

[lichvell_r]

Ravin's brow rises at the small guy. Deja vù... "Diet soda. Fizzy water with coloring and somehting that tastes like sugar but is not."

[tookfoolery]

Confused face!

"Why would you want something that tastes like sugar but isn't?"

[lichvell_r]

"Because real sugar makes me sick." That is a reason. Why, it would be a nightmare for a hobbit, but indeed, is a reason.

[tookfoolery]

Pip blinks dumbly.

"But what about pastries? Surely you can eat pastries," he reasons.

[lichvell_r]

"No, makes me sick as well. Plain bread, unleavened, is possible." See, that is why she is so thin.

[tookfoolery]

Pippin gapes at her, horrified.

[lichvell_r]

"Yes. Most of the things I do eat would make -other- people sick, so I guess it balances out in the end." No, he does not want to know. Trust me on that.

[tookfoolery]

Unfortunately, he does want to know.

He swallows (no pastries!) and asks, "What can you eat?"

[lichvell_r]

"Blood. Embalming fluid." Hey, she is half-undead. "Poisonous herbs, mushrooms, the kind that make people die." And that is the short list. "And things like this, without anything natural on them but water." She indicates the soda.

[tookfoolery]

Pippin looks up at her, then down at the (nonpoisonous) mushrooms on his plate, then back to her.

Peregrin Took is, for once in his life, speechless.

[lichvell_r]

Let us find his voice, then? The strange girl decides to follow human customs of politeness, and offers him a hand. "I am Ravin."

[tookfoolery]

Pippin shakes her hand woodenly, with his much smaller one.

[lichvell_r]

Not so small, Ravin is at most five feet tall, and slender/petite. Pippin might notice her hand is a bit cool, and that she has only three fingers and a thumb, even if her hand is well-proportioned and looks almost human for the absent digit. "And yours, is...?"

[tookfoolery]

Pippin is at least a foot shorter than Ravin. He does, though, have four fingers, and he notices her lack.

His eyes are wide. "What happened to your other finger?" he blurts.