Tucked under a tree in the Nexus ...

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As a small snowdrift of papers and datapads gradually accumulated around him, X was grudgingly coming to the conclusion that he may well have a few heads to gently knock together.

Well, maybe just one.

It's rather sad that I can get more of my logging done in another universe entirely, simply because he's not here.

Yet.Gate was getting jittery

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[_megaman_x]

X had been busy and Zanzibar had been bored and wanting to play, so the little bronze had come to the Nexus in hopes of maybe finding some of the other firelizards to play with. The little bronze was wearing the small, lightweight shoulder and throat harness that X had designed for him out of the same lightweight material as reploid bodysuits

[_megaman_x]

Zanzibar eyed him warily as X approached. The little bronze half crouched, tensed to fight or flee if this person intended any harm. However, the thoughts and emotions he was picking up were amusement rather than anger or violent intent. So he didn't move away as X reached out to scritch his headknobs.

Zanzibar chirruped smugly. He knew when he was being praised. Now that the little bronze wasn't flitting about or making off with datapads, X would probably notice the harness he was wearing. And this close, he might notice what it's made out of.

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Notice he did; and X paused in the skritching just long enough to run one fingertip along the harness, curious.

Same material as an undersheath.

So then -- what's the word .. Impressed. Impressed by someone from a world parallel to mine? Or just acquainted with one --?

"... Who's the person you're bonded with, my little winged gentleman? Someone like me?"

The skritching resumed as X asked the question.

[_megaman_x]

Zanzibar butted his nose demandingly at X's hand when he paused in his attentions. When he resumed scritching, the little bronze crooned happily and leaned into his fingers. This was obviously a happily spoiled little firelizard and quite used to letting others pet him. Or perhaps it was the fact that X smelled vaguely similar to his own X.

At X's words, the little bronze chirruped and tilted his head to look up at X. Zanzibar warbled as he picked up intent and questioning from X which he understood somewhat better than the words themselves. The bronze also noticed, now that he was looking X over, that this person seemed familiar, but different

[endless_azure]

Zanzibar's imagery came through a little garbled in X's inner-eye -- well, maybe plenty garbled -- but he grasped enough to get the basic point. There was a certain similarity to the flicker of images and what he'd seen in the mirror for centuries, after all ...

The emotion behind the projection was considerably easier for him to understand; he'd developed a certain amount of practice dealing with emotion flung at his mind.

Well now -- if I'm understanding him correctly, and I might not be -- this could be interesting~!

"'Someone like me', indeed --"

Continuing the skritching and breaking it up a little with careful petting along Zanzibar's neck, X decided on a bit of a roll of the dice. He was certain he recalled Zero nattering about something like this --

"If I gave you a message, do you think you could bring it to him for me?"

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Zanzibar chirped and crooned softly, his eyes whirling a blue-green. As X continued the scritching, the little bronze's inner eyelids closed in bliss.

At the mention of a message, Zanzibar chittered and looked up at him. He blinked his faceted eyes at X as he sent curiosity toward him.

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Skritch, skritch.

X chuckled.

"Yes, a message. To your X?"

And he formulated his impression of the images Zanzibar had sent to him, and tried to project that information along with the notion of 'home'.

"Could you do that for me?

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Zanzibar warbled and flared his wings before flipping them more securely to his back. Then he sent a sense of agreement and then a stronger sense of curiosity.

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"Thank you very much, my fine gentleman ~"

"I just want to say hello to him, is all."

X hunted out suitable paper for the message in question -- with the Hunter insignia, because he felt like being silly, and identifying himself -- and jotted down a few quick lines in neat, precise handwriting.

Hello there, X;

Quite a fine little fellow you have here! He's got a bit of a fancy for datapads, though, that you might want to see about --

It's too bad I can't ask him where you are; it would be a worthwhile meeting!

(another) X :D

Deftly folding the bit of paper into a size and shape more suitable for lizard transport, he looked back to Zanzibar.

"Now then, where shall I put this? Or would you rather carry it?"

He tried to reinforce the verbal question with images of what he meant.

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Zanzibar, of course, had no idea that when he delivered the message, his X would attempt (yet again) to instruct him not to make off with datapads. The little bronze just chirruped and cocked his head at the little square of paper. Then he skittered forward and crouched closer to X, shifting his wings out of the way.

If X looked closely at the harness, he'd notice that along Zanzibar's back, between and a bit behind his wings, there were slender extra loops of material that lay flat against the harness straps. They were slightly elastic like the rest of the harness and small items or bits of paper could be hooked to or tucked into the loops.

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Spotting the extra bits of material, X chuckled again and secured the note amongst them firmly. Then he gave Zanzibar a good skritching for so promptly showing him where to put the message.

"And thank you again ~!"

"Be sure to demand a treat from him when you arrive." :3

[_megaman_x]

Zanzibar crooned at the scritching and leaned into X's fingertips. However, this X hadn't told him to go deliver the message right away, and he saw no reason to leave when there were scritches to be had.

Zanzibar warbled and then butted at X's fingers when he stopped scritching. You can't stop scritching yet! Zanzibar commands it to be so!

[endless_azure]

Clearly, X reflected, fire lizards were much like Zero.

No wonder he reads the books so bloody often ~

"Enjoying yourself, are you?"

Highly amused by the little bronze's imperiousness, he resumed the skritching. And then he tried to scoop Zanzibar up to make said skritching a little easier.

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Zanzibar squeaked in alarm as he was suddenly scooped up. He flared his wings and then squirmed to get better footing. He wrapped his tail firmly around X's wrist and forearm to ensure he wouldn't fall as the bronze latched onto whatever part of X's arms he could with his clawed feet.

And then the little bronze proceeded to chastisingly chatter and scold X for giving him a scare.

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"Shh, shh .. it's alright, I promise ~"

Trying to avoid the worst of the flailing wings, X was more than willing to let Zanzibar hang on with tail, claws, and whatever else he felt was necessary as X carefully tucked him close.

And then there was much apologetic petting, oh yes.

[_megaman_x]

Zanzibar creeled and chittered as X tucked him close to his chest. Normally he wouldn't have liked being held so close by someone he didn't know well and his X didn't know. But Zanzibar had become quite used to being fussed over and doted on and generally pampered by a large portion of the HQ population back home. And this person reminded him very much of his X. So he tolerated it. The petting was a nice perk too.

Zanzibar warbled and crooned as he settled into X's arms, enjoying the petting.