[Tobias had been in the middle of something productive--really!--when his bones began to pop. The first thing the communicator's camera sees is a hawk...like thing tumbling off of a cabinet. The device is struck with one of the creature's flailing wing...arms? And down to the ground it goes
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What's that?
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< A Taxxon.>
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< If by experiment you mean being dumped here after death, then yes.>
[Ruffle.]
< I used to be human.>
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[Pause. Thinking the rest of that over.]
So you must be a bird from another world... Like me! Are you a birda sapien!?
[This question is so serious it's sad.]
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[fffff]
< Buteo jamaicensis, actually.>
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But what's assimilated mean? Did you go somewhere?
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< ...never heard of a rynax.>
< When you're absorbed into something else. Happened to my cousin, and I'm pretty sure it happened to me.>
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[Because that explains everything ever, anyways:]
What absorbed you? Did you want to be absorbed? Who's your cousin? Are they here?
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[Them's a lot of questions, boy.]
< Something that called itself the One. Not particularly. His name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, and he's not here, no.>
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[He can have more, give him a few minutes.]
Oh. Why did you get absorbed by it then? Did your cousin not want to be too?
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< The One does that to everyone it encounters. And no, I imagine he didn't. It wasn't Ax that I saw...not anymore.>
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