What: BLIND DATES!
Who: Anyone who was sent a note with C table numbers.
Where: Off-campus restaurant. AND BEYOND!
When: September 30th
Warnings: Who knows depending who is here.
[The third group's restaurant is a rotating fancy restaurant, the tallest in all of FDC! The
place is high up in the air, and you can see all of the city from
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He's already decided that these are no longer to be thought of as a means to foster a mating fondness (as one would imagine a date to be), but rather as a mandatory get-to-know-people-in-the-school sort of thing. Sure, they were paid for their participation, but it also seemed that they were forced to attend, whether they cared for the money or not. How confusing... And he was signed up again against his will, just as he was last time. The situation was uncannily familiar: Ulki sat silently, the first one to arrive (even though that was not his intention).
Again, a waiter ran into his wings. This time, he didn't apologize, but he turned to give him a look. The waiter apologized.
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At his table was a handsome man with wings who looked just about as pleased to be here as Byrne. Well, maybe they could meet, decide that this was not worth it, and leave. After all, the only condition for this was just to meet the date, right?
So, Byrne wordlessly took a seat at the table. Let's get this over with.
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The hawk laguz followed Byrne with his eyes as he sat across from him. Once they were sitting at the table together, Ulki looked at the other tables. Everybody was chatting or eating... He turned back to his company.
"Hello. I am Ulki." He figured that introductions were probably expected.
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Except he wasn't usually polite like that, but hell, if he was being forced into this, he might as well not start any fights with his date. He seemed reasonable enough anyway.
After pulling the scarf off his face, Byrne took a sip of the ice water on the table. And so the evening begins.
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Byrne really had nothing to say to the man, though. He was entranced by the lovely wings, however, and decided to express it: "Your wings. I've not seen anyone with them before."
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He was almost glad this topic came up, for that meant that in moments, he could seek the information he intended to only seconds ago. His wings shifted again since they became the point of conversation, and he nodded shortly. "I am a hawk laguz, from Tellius," he began; "They are maintained in both my unshifted form... and my shifted form."
It was always a little weird explaining what a hawk laguz was. He had hardly ever had to do it before coming to the school. Even though he had done it a couple times already, he still wasn't sure how to describe the concept, which was just as easy to understand to him as the term "beorc" or "branded".
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Also, shifted forms? Unshifted forms?
So, all Byrne said was, "Please elaborate."
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So he would, indeed, have to describe what a laguz was. That was the awkward part. "The laguz... are a race of people who have the ability to transform into an animal," he tried, his eyes tracing to the side and watching what a miscellaneous table was up to. "I am a hawk. That is what I can shift into." He didn't feel any more description was necessary to express the point necessary to explain.
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Byrne did notice the man's pointed ears, though, and for a second thought that Ulki might be familiar with Hyrule, but then realized he probably wasn't, due to him being of a race Byrne had never heard. Then again, he did seem distinctly similar to the Rito Byrne had heard about: the ones who lived on Dragon Roost Island.
"Are you familiar with Hyrule at all?"
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"I see," he responded. "Your ears are just very typical of Hyrule."
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"I could... say the same about your ears, and the bird tribes of Tellius," he said, straying away from his amplified hearing abilities.
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"I assure you, I'm not a bird," Byrne responded.
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Then again, after the whole Sephiran incident... you couldn't be too sure. But it is likely that Ulki is not aware of those developments...
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