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[candied_rabbit]

There's a rabbit-boy behind the Bar, tonight, bustling about as if this were all perfectly normal. He's even being relatively professional about it, getting out the big book of drink recipes, lining up some of the bottles he needs for the specials he's putting up, and so on and so forth

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[mapmakerchur]

Chur peers at the specials board and then at Momiji, and then folds her hands politely to wait for him to get to her, ears pricked up and mouth pursed in amusement.

[candied_rabbit]

'Miji bounces over before too long, offering a big, slightly fascinated smile.

He hasn't met any cat-people here, before. (Not counting Yrael.)

"Hi! Can I get you something?"

[mapmakerchur]

"Do I need to sing before or after I order?" Chur replies, twitching an ear so that the several small rings in it chime together.

[candied_rabbit]

"...Either one!"

The bunny-boy shrugs, slumping forward a little and offering a wide, airy smile. He's perfectly willing to be lax about the rules, on this one.

"Bonus points if your song has to do with the drink you order."

What "bonus points" consists of is...vaguely defined, at best.

[mapmakerchur]

Chur shakes her head. "I'll have to pass up on the bonus points, the only songs I know are in chaura," she says, and then begins to sing.

She looks like a bipedal, tail-less lion, and she sings like you might expect a lioness to sing; the Bar is not translating, but it seems a cheerful-enough sort of song.

When she's finished (it was short, perhaps the length of the alphabet song in English), she folds her hands again, purses her lips in a feline smile, and waits for Momiji's reaction.

[candied_rabbit]

"...Huh."

It's not like any song he's ever heard, of course, but he looks happy enough to hear it. He even closes his eyes for a moment, so that he can listen better - the Bar, while comfortably spacious, isn't exactly quiet.

"That was really nice," he notes brightly, when Chur finishes.

[mapmakerchur]

Chur flicks her ears forward, pleased. "It's a drinking song, or part of one," she explains, "about coal miners learning that their brother is planning to fight their uncle."

[candied_rabbit]

"Why's the brother mad at the uncle?"

The boy doesn't have flickable ears, at least at the moment, but he manages to look quite interested. Music is easily the fastest way to get his attention - and he's easily distracted by things, to begin with.

"Oh - and what do you want to drink?"

[mapmakerchur]

"A White Russian, please," Chur answers, and then says, "It's just the way of things - the uncle's gotten old, and the brother thinks that if he calls his sisters they'll help him become clan lord."

[candied_rabbit]

"Aw, that's kind of mean."

Rough-sounding story aside, he doesn't take long to get the needed bottles together, carefully pouring out Chur's drink, which he passes to her with a smile.

"There you go!"

[mapmakerchur]

Chur smiles another pursed-lip, no-teeth-showing smile. "Except for the clans Immune to challenge, that's the way it still is on my homeworld," she says. Then she takes the drink. "Thank you."

[candied_rabbit]

"Oh."

The boy goes wide-eyed for just a second, afraid that he might have been a bit insulting - but that doesn't seem to be the case, so he simply shrugs and does his best to be warm and polite.

Neither of which, thankfully, is hard for him.

"Uhm, so, I'm Momiji!"

[mapmakerchur]

Chur smiles again. "Good to meet you, na Momiji!" She manages a reasonable pronunciation of the name, or maybe that's the translation field helping a bit. "I'm Chur Anify par Chanur."

[candied_rabbit]

"...Do I just call you Chur?" he asks, tilting his head to the side.

He doesn't know if lion-people names work like normal ones, after all. And all parts of it sound like they would make nice first names, so...

[mapmakerchur]

"Usually that's how I'm called," Chur agrees. "It would just have been impolite for me not to introduce myself that way, even to a non-hani."