It's a common occurrence: River Tam wandered in some time ago, and spent some time drifting through the room. She followed an apparently aimless path according to some internal logic, letting her fingertips drift over the edges of tables and the backs of chairs.
Over, perhaps, one particular chair
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"Hi, little furry guy," she says, crouching down to pat it.
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She takes her hand away and smiles at the creature.
"Can you talk?"
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The small dark eyes go even wider, and the ruddy tail flattens to the ground, curling around the mongoose's hindquarters.
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"Eve, tis just the newest bout o'Milliways' magic, my friend."
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Slowly, slowly, her ruffled fur begins to smooth down, though she's still breathing very fast indeed, and almost trembling with the tension in her small body.
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It is entirely possible that said table is reasonably near the mongoose.
The Wolflord, however, does not seem to notice the tiny creature. He rarely does.
They are, for the most part, someone else's concern.
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This mongoose may or may not be; at any rate, she's just skittered below Galadan's table, belly low to the ground and breath fast even by the standards of small furry creatures.
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Hmm.
Does River have a pet?
It is entirely possible that, at this moment, he nudges the mongoose with his foot.
He does not intend it to bruise.
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The mongoose and snake may not, of course.
River's still occupied for the moment with being stiff with terrified disorientation; there's a whiff of reptile on the air, though, and that may not last for long.
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"Excuse me, my Lady?" Salazar will go with My Lady for now, even though he didn't actually witness the initial changing from human to animal.
"If I may be of service?"
That rule about "no killing other patrons" really works in Salazar's favour when he's not the one doing the killing, doesn't it?
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and there's almost a word in there, something like snaaaaaaaake--
and then she freezes again, and the sound shuts off abruptly as her dark eyes squeeze shut and snap back open.
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Alice crouches down, trying not to move too quickly, and holds out one hand.
"Hello," she says, gently.
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If Alice can read mongoose body language -- and, really, even if she can't -- she may very well guess that this is one terrified little critter.
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