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[classic_ratpack]

[Neal is just putzing around his room, looking around for something to do when he happens to come across something that wasn't there before. A large pink bottle that definitely wasn't part of his aesthetic, sitting on his dresser.

He reaches forward, picks it up, and pops the top of the bottle open before ... ]

Oh. Hello.

[a beat]Am I going

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[kungfuwitch]

[Phoebe had been sitting cross legged in the middle of the floor int he bottle, trying to meditate, as she waited for someone to notice the bottle. When the top opens she looks up and... cringes. She waves and calls out]

Hi. Um. I'm kinda a genie right now.

[classic_ratpack]

A genie. Really.

[a long pause. this castle just kept getting weirder]

The if-you-rub-the-bottle-they-pop-out kind of genie?

[kungfuwitch]

Yeah... Aaaaaand it looks like I'm yours for today.

[classic_ratpack]

[blinks, before shrugging. he pauses for a moment, his hand hovering next to the bottle for a moment, but ... it's just easier to talk to someone who's not in the bottle]

I promise I'm not being fresh.

[he's trying to keep things light. and with that, he's rubbing his hand against the side of the bottle]

[kungfuwitch]

[bright blue smoke pours out of the top and swirls around for a moment, forming into a thick cloud. In a moment the cloud clears and Phoebe is standing there... blond... in a bright blue harem costume.]

Hello... master.

[by the face she's making it's abundantly clear that she is SO sick of saying that]

[classic_ratpack]

I prefer Neal. Even though "master" does have a nice ring to it.

[he's teasing. mostly.]

Do I still call you Phoebe?

[kungfuwitch]

[makes a face at him] Yeah, well, blame the bottle.

And, yes, Phoebe is fine. [She sighs softly] This is my sixth day of this, so forgive me if I'm starting to get a little tired of it.

[classic_ratpack]

[holds up his hands]

Don't mind me. I'm just still not used to the magic end of things yet. Where I'm from genies are animated and blue, and sound like Robin Williams.

[kungfuwitch]

[laughs] Oh we've got those, too. This is just the reality as opposed to the cartoon version.

I think I'm having a little more fun this time around, at least.

[classic_ratpack]

So this has happened to you before?

[kungfuwitch]

Yeeaaah. Once, back home.

[classic_ratpack]

But that was a real-deal genie problem, and not a castle induced one.

[a pause]

Does this kind of thing happen to you often back home?

[kungfuwitch]

This is true. And this happens more often than any of us would like...

[classic_ratpack]

Huh. Interesting.

[will not milk her sister for information about Paige, will not milk her sister for information about Paige ... ]

I guess every world has it's quirks.

[kungfuwitch]

That's one way to put it, I guess. [shrugs] Though, this is definitely one of the nicer things I've been turned into over the years.

[classic_ratpack]

I'll take it to mean I don't want to know the rest, and won't ask.