Day 2: Later Afternoon, starting at 4pm, spanning into the evening

[arcadia_central]

Who: Everyone except the exploration team, which has left by this point.
Where: Central Square
What: Following from uSUC's invite.
Rating: G
Warnings: TBA

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[generation_bug]

What was that, parked over on the edge of one of the green squares? Was it a blindingly yellow car sitting innocently where it had no business being? Again?

Why yes, yes it was. Someone was taking this reconnaisance crap seriously.

[bright_shiner]

Hrm. A bright yellow car? Such a strange device it is too.

Please pay no attention to the cat that has just curled up on your hood and who is watching those gathered with one brilliant eye. He doesn't quite know what a car is, but he does know he's seen this... thing around. And it's warm. It should be interesting.

Really, thats all Mogget needs to do anything.

[endless_mania]

One shoe off and one shoe on she came walking, humming the song that her fish had warbled to its grave in her pocket. The silvers flecks flickered in her green eye like shoals of tiny fish themselves, and she turned her mismatched gaze to the small yellow car parked on the edge of the green. She smiled.

She was good at driving.

Continuing to hum, she walked over to the car, barely noticing the little cat curled up on the hood. It was like being back on the journey with Dream, with the car, and he liked cats.

"Hello Mr Car." She said to it, touching the hood. "I'm a very good driver."

[generation_bug]

...alright, this sort of attention was not exactly what he'd had in mind. Bad enough he'd acquired the small white furry animal that looked like an Earth cat but certainly didn't scan like a cat, then there was this very, very, very odd scanning human...ish...thing. That spoke to him as though she knew he could hear.

He debated replying. Debated and debated some more and decided, for the moment, to keep silent. Both of their energy readings were extremely alarming.

[bright_shiner]

Scanning in as something more than just a cat? Oh dear, that would be the power used this morning. It should be waning quite shortly.... in fact, you shouldn't see much more than just a cat now.

Of course, not much help for the strange girl, but Mogget was one for subtlety. On occasion.

A green eye turned to look into another green eye- and then both eyes were open as he stared, rather openly, at the girl standing before him. If it were possible for a cat to gawk, he would have.

Instead, he uncoiled from his spot to walk along the hood and sit, facing the.... being that stood before him.
"I don't think he wants us to know we can hear him, Lady."

Mogget? Being polite? How shocking! (Of course, that's Mogget being worried out of his wits too. What in the world was one of her kind doing here!)

It pays to be respectful to a creature who's more powerful than you.

[endless_mania]

Delirium looked down at the cat in surprise. She hadn't seen it before - or she had, but it had been so fun driving a car before that it had pushed everything else out of her head - and she smiled widely. It didn't look like anything other than a cat, but she knew differently. Sometimes. If she remembered.

"But I'm a very good driver." She answered, ansently pulling at the lip ring she suddenly sported. "I'm looking for my brother."

[bright_shiner]

"Your brother?" Mogget knew- well, suspected in a very well informed way, exactly what this girl-child-being was. It was something he could sense, almost smell under the skin because of what he was (for all that he pretended to be something else).

In his world there were once eightSeven Bright Shiners. And even then, there were words- knowledge of those even greater than they....
And perhaps it was that his own nature was so often so closely tied to her own that let him sense that she was more than she seemed.

"He's here?" Almost fear- certainly worry that another of this kind were here- here when they had the whole of the universe at their hands- "Did you lose him, ah, today, Lady?"

Which one was he? And who, exactly, was she? Astrael had spoken once, of a dark one with the charter mark for death around her neck, and only that there had been others...

[endless_mania]

"Yes, my brother." Delirium said, nodding her head. "Not my sister, and not my sister-brother - nope, not at all." She peered at him, raising one peirced eyebrow. "Are you really a cat? I bet you look so much bigger, inside your head."

She sat up on the car's bonnet, looking at the cat with interest in her eyes. "No, no. I lost him over 300 years ago. You see, he didn't want to be him anymore. He wanted to let it all go in a more chaotic kind of way." She kicked her legs out. "Change. Chaaaa-aaange." She sang out, shivering slightly. "That's what it's all about you know. That's why I started on this whole mess. See, I asked Desire, and he said 'no', so I asked Despair and she said no, even though Desire - Desire, she said to not bother Despair. But then I asked Dream and he stopped being horrible and we went, but then he was horrible again and I saw the ships. There's one man who looks like my brother but he smells funny."