Ali's not quite ready to discuss her cousins yet, so she focuses on the squash. "Vampiric veggies? What, did Bunnicula decide to spawn? This is making me regret dinner..."
"Bunnicula." He laughs, loud and clear. "No, no. Just occasionally evil will possess vegetables. Mostly gourds." He takes his boot off the squash, and in retaliation it rams into his other foot. "They roll around and make nuisances of themselves."
She leans down to watch the squash more closely, absentmindedly brushing her hair out of her eyes. This works for exactly .00001 seconds. Oh well.
"Why gourds? I mean, brussel sprouts I could see, but gourds?" She glances up at the more human shaped of the vampires. "Is it going to try and bite me or something?"
((And have I mentioned lately how much you rock? 'cause this is possibly the weirdest funnystrange thing I've read all night.
The squash rams Ivan's boot a couple more times before apparently losing interest, then starts rolling around the chair again. Ivan, meanwhile, rolls... his eyes. At the squash, not Ali. "No brussel sprouts in the Old Country," he replies, laying his accent on thick on 'Old Country'.
And then, on its next go-around, he snatches it up by the woody stem. "If it does bite, I should worry about how it got teeth." His tone is joking as he turns the jerking veggie this way and that to show its lack of toothy appendages.
The mention of vampiric veggies draws the attentions of an androgynous little girl in gardening overalls. She's carrying what looks like a large radish with a face, and has two thorny vines that seem to be growing out of her lower back.
"I am no knowing of any werewolves in the universe I am from, Senhor. It is most commonly thought that they are just a story, and I have seen no evidence otherwise for my own world. As for the..." She's about to continue when she sees him put his boot on the gourd. "Senhor! Do no do this!" She seems terrified he might hurt the poor little thing.
Ivan's seen a lot of things over the years, but this is the first time he's ever seen a radish with a face. "Unfortunate. They are mostly decent people."
Of course, the exclamation startles his foot off of Ted the Vampire Acorn Squash, who proceeds to ram into his boot several times before starting to roll around the chair again. "It has nothing to worry about from me; I have never stepped on it hard enough to hurt it."
Plant relaxes considerably when she sees the vampiric veggie isn't in any danger - she's funny that way about plants.
"Odd oddish odd?" comments the Oddish again.
"Não, Rafaela... It is no being anything like a Pokemon," Plant says to the Oddish before continuing what she was about to say earlier. "I was designed to work at a botanical garden, and in my own garden now I have been doing much research on unusual plants of various worlds. I am admitting to having the preference for unusual carnivores. The Venomous Tentacula could possibly be called vampiric, in that it is sucking blood and fluids from its prey." She reaches to pat the squash with a vine.
Well, it'd take a lot more than Ivan putting his boot on it to hurt the thing; the gypsies he'd gotten it from had been dragging it around for several years before they met him. Ted stops when patted and makes a odd little growling noise. Maybe it likes that.
"Pokemon. I think I have heard of those." He peers a little more closely at the Oddish, like a cat investigating some new animal in its house. Though he could have sworn that those were one of the few not-real fictional entities he's heard of. "Tentacula?"
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"Why gourds? I mean, brussel sprouts I could see, but gourds?" She glances up at the more human shaped of the vampires. "Is it going to try and bite me or something?"
((And have I mentioned lately how much you rock? 'cause this is possibly the weirdest funnystrange thing I've read all night.
And I'm reading Soul Music.))
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And then, on its next go-around, he snatches it up by the woody stem. "If it does bite, I should worry about how it got teeth." His tone is joking as he turns the jerking veggie this way and that to show its lack of toothy appendages.
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"I am no knowing of any werewolves in the universe I am from, Senhor. It is most commonly thought that they are just a story, and I have seen no evidence otherwise for my own world. As for the..." She's about to continue when she sees him put his boot on the gourd. "Senhor! Do no do this!" She seems terrified he might hurt the poor little thing.
"Odd!" comments the Oddish.
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Of course, the exclamation startles his foot off of Ted the Vampire Acorn Squash, who proceeds to ram into his boot several times before starting to roll around the chair again. "It has nothing to worry about from me; I have never stepped on it hard enough to hurt it."
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"Odd oddish odd?" comments the Oddish again.
"Não, Rafaela... It is no being anything like a Pokemon," Plant says to the Oddish before continuing what she was about to say earlier. "I was designed to work at a botanical garden, and in my own garden now I have been doing much research on unusual plants of various worlds. I am admitting to having the preference for unusual carnivores. The Venomous Tentacula could possibly be called vampiric, in that it is sucking blood and fluids from its prey." She reaches to pat the squash with a vine.
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Ted stops when patted and makes a odd little growling noise. Maybe it likes that.
"Pokemon. I think I have heard of those." He peers a little more closely at the Oddish, like a cat investigating some new animal in its house. Though he could have sworn that those were one of the few not-real fictional entities he's heard of. "Tentacula?"
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