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[fuckyeahcows]

Characters: Volly and OPEN
Location: A hallway with a bookshelf in it.
Time: An afternoon.
Content: HEY LOOK A DRAGON No seriously, Volly is wandering around the mansion, so if you wanted to meet him, now's your chance!
Format: Anything goes!
Warnings: Seriously saccharine. Do not click if high levels of cute annoy you.

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[musicalmesmer]

The great thing about big old places like this was, there was always more than one way to get where you were trying to go. The downside was, when class got out, the halls were always ridiculously crowded. There were days when J couldn't deal with that much music all at once; those were the days he found other, less used hallways to get where he was going. Today was one of those days.

He wasn't surprised to hear another tune in this hall - he couldn't have been the only person to have this idea - but he was surprised to hear it coming from above him. A glance upwards told him it was coming from one of the school's dragons - he'd seen them around but hadn't really had the chance to talk with one of them. "Hey," he greeted - him? Her? He couldn't tell - casually, then, noting the uncertain melody, asked, "You doin' alright up there?"

[fuckyeahcows]

"Oh, I do not think so," Volly replied. His wings drooped slightly, and he looked around the hall with a hint of dejection. "I am quite lost." The admission was a bit shameful, but there was nothing to be done about it; he was lost.

"I was looking for the kitchen, but it is very hard to find, and there are entirely too many doors in the way, I think." He swooped down from his perch with surprising grace, landing (a little harshly, especially compared to his flight) on the ground in front of his visitor. He was about to speak again when idea suddenly struck him, and he proceeded to trot toward the door, looking up at the handle wistfully. People, after all, seemed to have no trouble at all opening them, as they always seemed to be walking about the mansion with purpose and direction.

Giddy with the possibilities in this notion, he whipped back around quickly and faced the young man. "Perhaps - " he stopped, wanting to make sure that he asked properly so that he would get a positive reply. "I mean, please, will you help me

[musicalmesmer]

"Well, it is a big place. Pretty easy t' get lost in." Especially if doors were a problem. J stepped back as the dragon landed and was going to ask where it was headed when he heard the idea enter its tune, the upbeat merging into and exciting the simple melody. He had a pretty good idea what was going to happen next. That didn't stop him from grinning when the dragon rephrased its question, tune inquisitive and hopeful. How could he say no to a song like that?

"Sure," he nodded in one direction down the hallway. "Think it's down here - 's where the cafeteria is, at least. Figure they should be pretty close together."

[fuckyeahcows]

It sounded reasonable, although Volly was rather unsure what the cafeteria was. If it were related to the kitchen, he supposed it could not be a bad place, and so he agreed that heading in that direction was a good decision.

"But you do not know exactly where the kitchen is?" he asked after a moment. Perhaps he did not need to feel so bad about being lost if even a person did not know how to get to the kitchen! This thought cheered him considerably, although in its wake came another, more alarming notion. "Why, if you do not know, how do you eat? I thought that people ate food from the kitchen." He recalled the Thanksgiving turkey he had eaten a few weeks ago; yes, he was certain that it had come from the kitchen.

Perhaps, he thought, only Courfeyrac got food from the kitchen, and all of the other people had to get it someplace else. "Do you hunt for it? That is how I like to get food, sometimes."

[asuraofwar]

While Sephiroth had gotten more or less used to life at the mansion, there were still things he hadn't quite gotten settled as well as he would of liked. His explorations of the place, for one. It was all well and good to know how to get to ones classes (and he most certainly knew that) but that wouldn't help in all situations.

What would happen, for example, if the place was attacked? He'd been created to be able to take a look at the options, weigh the tactical advantages and arrange things to be the most favorable for them. But he couldn't do that if he didn't know what went where and how.

Unfortunately, he wasn't exactly looking up and thus didn't spot the dragon atop the bookshelf.

[fuckyeahcows]

Volly was positively entranced by his new visitor. He had seen many humans since he had come to the Institute, but this one had very shiny hair, the color of which Volly found to be particularly beautiful. A glance at his own dull grey scales inspired a fleeting hint of jealousy and a great deal of defensiveness, but he quickly recovered himself and continued admiring the fellow from his perch.

After a moment, he did an awkward little climb-hop motion down to one of the lower shelves in hopes of getting a better look, scrabbling noisily against the varnished wood as he did so.

"Hello," he said from his new, lower position, straining his neck to get as close as possible. Thoughts of the kitchen were now quite secondary. "Your hair is quite lovely," he said, still staring at it intently.

[asuraofwar]

If Sephiroth was particularly surprised to see a dragon - and a fairly smallish one, at that - it certainly didn't show on his face. Or at least, not much. If one knew were to look they might have spotted a slight widening of his eyes, but that was about the extent of it. Besides, it wasn't like it seemed to be particularly threatening at the moment. If he'd been more familiar with the concept he'd even almost categorize it as cute.

Not that this stopped the more analytical part of his brain from kicking into overdrive and doing its best to work out the best places to strike something whose physiology was so alien.

"Thank you," he offered with a polite nod.

[fuckyeahcows]

If there was any change in the fellow's bearing, it was not visible to Volly; he had never been very good with reading people, and was more interested in talking and listening to them besides. Of course, it was difficult for him to talk or listen (let alone pick up on any personal cues, be they minuscule or major) when he was thus entranced by something so curious. He could not help but to stare, craning his neck out still further from the bookshelf. "Oh, I am sure that you must be very proud

FUCK YES VOLLY

[letunityblossom]

Toris had been heading down to the kitchen himself, in search of food that he couldn't usually just get in the cafeteria--he'd always been a bit of a gourmet, left to his own devices, and it just worked better if he cooked for himself; he wouldn't want to trouble anyone else with his tastes.

He almost didn't notice the little dragon perched on the shelf, except that something had seemed off, and he'd paused to turn around and look.

"O-oh," Toris said--not the cleverest thing he'd ever spoken, but he was still getting used to dragons, really. "Hello."

Re: FUCK YES VOLLY

[fuckyeahcows]

"Oh, hello," Volly replied, snapping out of his own little stupor. Although he was not sure how long he had been alone, he thought it must have been a long while, as he was strikingly more hungry now than he had been when he had first landed on the bookshelf. At any rate, he was glad to finally have some company, as the people in the mansion always seemed to know where they were going, and so it followed that they must know where everything was"I am afraid that I am lost," he said, markedly ashamed. It was not normal for a dragon to get lost, not when he was going to a place he had visited before - especially when the dragon in question was so keen on flying as Volly. "It is only - the hallways are very confusing, you see, and they all look the same, and also the doors are very difficult to use

[letunityblossom]

Toris smiled at the little dragon, nodding and gesturing down the hallway in the direction he'd been going. "I was going there, too; we can go together. This place is pretty big; if you go down the wrong hallway you can get turned around easily enough."

He wondered what the dragons ate; logic said it would be some sort of meat, but maybe alien dragons ate something different? Well, he'd find out when they got to the kitchen. It wasn't that far.

"I'm Toris, by the way. What's your name?"

[fuckyeahcows]

He quickly hopped down from his perch, his talons clicking harshly against the floor as he landed. "Oh, yes, let us go together!" He seemed overcome with excitement at the idea; surely he would be able to memorize the way this time, and would be spared the embarrassment of getting lost again.

"I am Vola-tilus." He had a little trouble getting the word out, but was quite proud of the name regardless. "Toris - why, it is a very short name," he added, sounding a bit smug, "but it is nice."

He trotted over to the nearest door, turning to peer back at his new partner expectantly. "I am sure you will be able to open the doors very easily, but I can help, if you would like."

[willharangueyou]

Generally speaking, Pepper spent a lot of time paying attention to her phone. Ever since finding herself with a fairly stern request to stay at the school for the time being, she was finding herself in an even more paranoid state wherein she was looking at her phone with even more frequency than usual. This tended to make her a little more spaced out when it came to the surrounding world, and this was exactly one such occasion. Stopping in a corridor as she fielded yet another somewhat snippety e-mail from yet another magazine, Pepper was perfectly unaware of Volly's presence for a good while until she had successfully written an appropriately brief and dismissive response to a reporter who definitely wasn't getting any exclusive on this Mandarin business

[fuckyeahcows]

As soon as Pepper had walked into view, Volly had forgotten about - well, whatever it was that he had been looking for. Instead he found himself positively captivated by the thing in her hands - it was shiny and blinky and altogether lovely, and in that moment he wanted nothing more than to swoop in and take it for himself, even though he knew that that would be rude (and also stealing, which was wrong).

But then, she was looking at it as though she did not even really like the thing very much, so perhaps it would not be so very rude after all. Maybe it would make her happy if he took it, and he did not suppose it could really be stealing if she were happy afterward. Or at least it would not be wrong, which was what he supposed was the important part.

He leaned forward from his perch and peered down a little more intensely, and did not stop staring at the little object even when she addressed him directly. "Oh, hello," he replied absently. Then, with more interest: "Tell me, what is that? It is very pretty."

[willharangueyou]

For a moment she had no idea what Volly was referring to until she followed his gaze to her hand and her phone. "Oh, this?" She stepped forward, automatically giving into the inquisitiveness of the dragon, holding it out a little for him to have a better look. "It's my phone." After a little pause, she added: "I use it to talk to people who're far away." His obvious interest in it amused Pepper - he was really very blatantly adorable, to a point where she probably wouldn't actually mind all that much if he did swoop over and take her phone. Except if that actually happened it would be quite bad.

[fuckyeahcows]

He scrambled down a few shelves to get a better look at the proffered phone, scratching up what was doubtlessly a valuable antique bookshelf in the process. "Oh, I do like it. It is so bright." The brightness seemed of secondary concern to the phone's owner, though, so Volly made an attempt to be polite, adding, "And I am sure it is very useful for talking, too." He could not help but sound a bit doubtful, but it was an honest attempt.

The screen was not as brilliant as it had been a moment ago; Volly fought to urge to reach out and poke it with a wing or his tail, wondering why it had changed so. Still, it was no less shiny than it had been before - perhaps more so, now that the surface looked more like a mirror than a screen. He caught his own image in its reflection and tapped his claws delightedly against the shelf.

A thought suddenly struck him - perhaps he needn't worry about stealing the phone at all. "I do not suppose that any dragons have phones?"

*DIES FROM CUTE*

[past_returns]

Jeremie was walking down the hall with several books under his arm. He was getting better with his ability, but he knew he still had a long way to go. Which, of course, meant more research.

He spotted the rather plain little dragon on the bookshelf by chance and he paused to look at it. He'd never seen any of the dragons up close. And, understandably, he had no idea what to say to one.

After several minutes of silence, he finally asked, "Um...hello?"

"resuscitates with...cute?*

[fuckyeahcows]

"Oh!" Volly started, giving his wings a few quick, surprised flaps to keep his balance; he had not noticed anyone approaching. "Hello," he replied after a moment, once he had regained his composure. "I did not see you there; I was only thinking."

He wasn't keen on asking for directions, as doing so would require him to admit that he was lost. Still, if he wanted to get to the kitchens - and he certainly did want that - then there was nothing for it but to face his shame and admit that he did not know where he was, or where he ought to go.

"I am lost, you see," he admitted after a moment. "I was trying to find the kitchen, but I am afraid that all the doors and hallways - they made it rather difficult, and I am so very small." He glided down from his spot atop the bookshelf, landing a little haphazardly in front of his visitor. "Perhaps you know the way?"

Pfft. XD

[past_returns]

Jeremie rubbed at the back of his head. "Sorry, I really don't know. I usually just go to the cafeteria."

And not often enough at that. Which would explain why he was so scrawny.

He figured that would probably be the end of it, but curiosity got the better of him. After all, this was his first time meeting a dragon. And the school shrink had said to try to go out and meet people.

He wracked his brain, trying to remember the map he'd been given when he'd started school. "Though, logically, it should be close to the cafeteria, right?"

[fuckyeahcows]

"I do not know," Volly answered. "What is the cafeteria?" If it was related to the kitchen, he supposed it would be a good place to check, but it was a strange word and he was not certain.

He pondered this for a moment, then asked, "Shall we go there, to check?"