barring emergencies

[the_very_best]

Bella's not sure where she has wandered. She thought she was about to walk into a shop, but this appears to be an unattended bar. With none of the windows associated with the shop she thought she was entering. It could be an elaborate psychic assault of some kind, but it doesn't feel very... assault-y... and she was in the middle of a town and doesn't think any humans want to sic their 'mon on her. It's strange. She approaches the bar, looking around warily, hand hovering near her belt.

with Max (Benedict)

with Earth and Lightning (kappa)

with Ann and Sabrina (kuuskytkolme)

Comments

[cumulonimbus]

"I don't know why the kind from my world would bother, it doesn't seem like mountains do enough to need people to be them. I might have remembered it wrong, anyway."

[pythbox]

"Maybe the kind who be mountains are just really, really boring people?" he suggests.

[cumulonimbus]

"Maybe. Or maybe they can be mountains and sleep at the same time."

[pythbox]

"Must be some nap," opines Lightning.

[cumulonimbus]

"Yeah. So they'd still have to be kind of boring, they'd miss all the stuff."

[pythbox]

"Meh. If I could turn into a rock and sleep for a hundred years, I might do it," says Lightning.

[cumulonimbus]

"Why? You can fly."

[pythbox]

"It's a long, depressing story," he says, angling into a lazily spiraling glide.

[cumulonimbus]

"I don't think I'd want to only ever be the sky for a hundred years straight, but I'd like it if I could do it instead of sleeping or something."

[pythbox]

"And you can't?"

[cumulonimbus]

"No, I still have to sleep normally. So I just go up for an hour or two every day from my hammock because one of my teachers put the safety circle around it."

Stormy eventually needs to be put down - one of the annoying things she needs to do for the part of her which is not the sky is eat, and she can't even get a meal from Bar because she doesn't have any spending money on her. She gathers up the napkins she collected from Bar with explanations before the elementals spotted her, and lets herself out, wistful.

[pythbox]

Well then.

Lightning takes the room key from Earth and goes off to have a nap. Earth stays in the main bar area to see who turns up next.

[katrea]

After some traffic which includes no mysterious duplicates of Maurabel, the crowd thins out again, and here is another mysterious duplicate. This one is about the same age as the one with the Pokémon, but skinnier and redheaded and paler, and in yet another stylistically unrelated sort of clothing. She seems pretty bewildered.

[pythbox]

"Hello," says Earth.

[katrea]

"...hi. Uh, where am I?"

[pythbox]

"A very weird magic place called Milliways."

[katrea]

"It's, uh, very weird and magic. Why am I in a weird magic place called Milliways?"

[pythbox]

"Apparently it just does that," he says, shrugging. His leaves rustle.

[katrea]

"Okay. Next question. Are you a plant?"

[pythbox]

"I'm an Earth. I'm not a plant, but my wings and halo are."

[katrea]

"Okay. I didn't think you were entirely a plant, but it seemed politer to ask than to check any other way I could think of. I'm a plant," she volunteers, "I don't tell people that at home but this is sufficiently bizarre that I don't think it can possibly hurt anything."

[pythbox]

"You look more like a human than a plant to me," Earth observes. "But stranger things have happened."

[katrea]

"Yeah, I don't know, like, why I am a plant, since I turned up on Chris's doorstep mysteriously when I was like three and had amnesia, but I perk up in the sunshine and have to avoid salt and if you prick me I do not exactly bleed."

[pythbox]

"Well then. I guess you're a plant," he says. "Did you know I've seen two other people here with almost exactly your face? I'm told that's been known to happen, but I am not told why or what it means."

[katrea]

"Huh. Who told you that's been known to happen?"