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[chibicelestial]

Temeraire is, understandably, confused. His surroundings seem to have grown to gigantic proportions, bigger even than when he was newly-hatched. He slicks his ruff back with displeasure and confusion; he wasn't even in a forest to begin with

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[alt_tardis]

:: !! !!! ::

The TARDIS was being a tree, yes. And she was being wery wery gwiet, yes. She was still not expecting a little finite being to climb her.

She re-aligns a few of her sensors, scanning the creature. Not a species she's familiar with, though close, and not, so far as she knows, one native to this universe. Going back over her immediate sensor logs, it looks like there was some Rift excitation. Only one thing to conclude, then.

:: TARDIS::express("Welcome to Chicago!") ::, she transmits. :: entity{YOU}.fell(via-mechanism{"Rift"}.to-location{this}) ; entity{ME} == "TARDIS" == :D !! ::

She loves meeting new people.

[chibicelestial]

There's...something in his head. He shifts his wings nervously - but the voice said welcome, so that meant it might be friendly? That's what he's hoping, anyway.

"Hello?" he asks cautiously, craning his long neck - not-so-long anymore - to look down. "Where are you?" He can't see anything below him, anyway.

[alt_tardis]

:: has.capacity{camouflage} ::, the TARDIS explains. :: mechanism == {'chameleon circuit'} ; is.entity{"tree"} !! ::

She rustles one or two branches to demonstrate.

:: query() ?? ; define.species(entity{"YOU"}) ?? ::

[chibicelestial]

"A tree?" Oh. Right. He might want to get off the tree, then. It's probably rude to perch in others, so he flaps his wings a little, testing the air first, and then flies down to the ground. "Pardon me," Temeraire apologizes. "I never would have climbed you if I had known."

He's starting to make sense of the strange speech, at least a little bit, though some of the words are unfamiliar. "I am a dragon," he explains. Though he's a very small dragon at present. "Do you have dragons here?"

[pplrunincircles]

Elizabeth can hear a voice. She shouldn't be outside at this time of night, but she had a thing to do with a thing. Right. Or she got distracted talking to someone she just met on the sidewalk. It happens.

She looks up at the sound of the voice, the sound of the voice from the... tree?

"Oh! Hi!" Elizabeth grins at the whatever that is in the tree with the scales. "Aren't you cute?"

She would question how an animal can speak, but she's lived in Chicago all her life and done a lot of supernatural living in the last year since she got her wings.

[chibicelestial]

Temeraire rustles his wings a little. Dragons that are ordinarily the size of a house are not used to being called "cute". "Have you seen Laurence?" he asks, craning his neck down to look at the stranger. "Or any of my crew, or the Allegiance? Only I was just at sea, and now..." He tilts his head quizzically.

"Also I seem to be quite a bit smaller," he adds.

[pplrunincircles]

"No- I, oh." Elizabeth frowns and takes another look at him. Wanderer. She sees that now. Well, it is her duty as an angel to go through the whole spiel, but she's so bad at it.

"You're new, huh? Like super, mega new. obviously since you're talking about stuff that's like got nothing to do with the stuff here."

She clears her throat and folds her hands together.

"Okay. You see... Well... You've fallen through a Rift, which is between time and space and takes you from your own world and universe and plops you in this one with no hope of return. It, also, tends to like change the people who go through it? So clearly it made you smaller! Either that or we're all giants here and everyone from your world would be minaturized looking in comparison... to all of us."

[chibicelestial]

Yeeah, dragons from nineteenth-century England aren't so good with the whole...time and space travel thing. "You speak strangely," he says instead, because he's busy fretting about Laurence, who he doesn't think came with him, and that's not a good thing.

Temeraire unfurls his wings and flaps a bit, testing the air, then flies down to the ground. It's strange how the air currents change when you're smaller.