Dak Phai shrugs. “We can leave whenever. We could leave now if they don’t need any help with this place…” Then she frowns. “Well, we could, if we had Ansi and your friend.” She peeks out a window and starts looking for Ansi lol.
“Fair enough.” She grabs a couple stakes. “You dig the holes. I’ll put the stakes down and fill them in.”
getting left behind in the room with the wallpaper falling off is diabolical lol
Man it’s criminal that Stardust would never know all these alien references.
“Constantly,” she admits, focused on the wall. “Well, it used to be, anyways. Sure, we can frame the falling wallpaper. I can cut up some two-by-fours to make a frame, if we have any. Maybe Dak Phai has a circle saw.”
“I swear,” she mutters, peeking into a nearby doorway to see Hailey and Stardust before moving on. “She’s the size of a taxi cab with the stealth of a ninja.” Then she peeks outside to see Ansi and Mr. Raven…
hey, he picked up the shovel lol
Ansi furrows her brows. “What’s that going to do?” She thinks for a moment, examining the whistle. “Is it a magic whistle?”
“Ansi!” Dak Phai waves. “Are you ready to go? I got Denzel and his friend, Dee, to join us.”
“Just a moment. I’m helping set up this fence.”
She blinks. Then she blinks again. “Sorry, beaver?” She shakes her head. “Never heard of that.”
Ansi perks up, freaked out a little bit as Dak Phai takes off, flapping her wings for a few yards before standing beside Ansi and motioning Denzel over.
"Wjêrn’ gít ga?" Dak Phai gestures toward the figures, looking up at Anansi.
“I don’t know,” she murmurs in common/english/with the universal translator on lol, looking to Mr. Raven for answers before taking a glance at Denzel just to assess him lol.
She stares blankly for a moment before shaking her head slowly. “Can’t say I do. What did you say it’s called? Beaver?”
Denzel is crouching down and waving the figures over like someone would a puppy… One of the giant 6 foot ones tackles him XD. Mind you, Denzel is like 5 foot something XD.
“Shadow,” Mr. Raven gently scolds. “Stop it, you’re going to get him all dirty.”
The shadow creature is on all fours licking at Denzel’s face and leaving black slicks like oil behind on his cheeks.
Denzel is cracking up and saying how it tickles.
“Hold on.” Hailey takes out her phone and shows a picture. “Kind of similar to the abomination of the platypus but less deadly.”
“That’s this little one’s name. To remember what they’re atually called would require my author to go look at her notes and she said she’s not doing that.”
“Mhmm.” Mr. Raven nods in agreement with Denzel.
“They’re like shadow spirits though. Kind of like pet dogs.”
“Well, they’re little terrors that lay eggs, but are mammals… Honestly, I think aliens were just playing with us like Sims,” Hailey joke with a shrug. “Anyway, can you pass my those screws?” She points.
knock yourself out haha
“Want to help paint?” CH asks.
“Yeah. Don’t you pay with things in your world?” Bella asks curiously.
O.O he gets back lol
“Aww! Will they age like other beings, or super fast?” Pat asks.
“What’re those?” She shifts over to Sable’s side before extending the piece to her. “Can you read them?”
lol every time one of yours mentions “[their] author” the temptation grows greater for a character to point it out in-canon as a source of comedy lol, but i’m assuming that there’s a “fill-in-the-blank” situation that everyone’s agreeing to in canon lmao. But anyways…
Dak Phai taps the palm of her hand and a quick beep! is heard as she records.
Meanwhile, Ansi’s still too anxious to reach out to the shadow. “They’re like dogs? But they’re not dogs. So they’re domestic? What do they eat? I have so many questions…” She trails off as she rubs her chin lol.
She’s about to ask for clarification on ‘Sims’ before deciding against it. “Yeah, I can pass some screws. Actually–” She closes her eyes and whispers, "véges gésme kakénu," a couple of times under her breath before the screws float over before Haley. Also, her antennae stand straight up as she maintains her focus lol.
“They eat humans.” Denzel scratches under a shadowy chin.
“I try to subsidize their diet with other beings sometimes,” Mr. Raven states.
“Pet him, he’s sweet.” Denzel encourages Dak Phai while the cute little shadow reaches out with a black paw for her.
“Oh wow, you have levitation powers? Cool!” Hailey reaches out for the screws with interest. “Who exerimented on you?” She starts to work thosein with a screwdriver.
Dak Phai stretches out a finger as she struggles to keep a straight face.
“They…” Yenansi pauses. “Eat humans? Like, is that their preferred food? I could eat a human but I wouldn’t unless it had been butchered for me.”
Dak Phai sends her a well-timed scowl lol.
“I don’t have powers,” she clarifies as the screws clatter to the ground. “I was taught by a powerful witch. Actually, I could be better than her, since I can actually feel the magic I use,” she chuckles. “But, no, I was just born this way. Me and the other fifty million or so Kanlizú.” She starts whispering again, and the screws fly away, back to their spots and off of the floor.
Dak Phai shivers and retracts her hand when licked. Then, she gets curious again and reaches out to properly pet Shadow this time.
“Used to.” Ansi shrugs. “I haven’t properly hunted in like… decades? It’s just so much easier to get raw meat from the butcher.”
Skeptical, she stretches out her hand, palm down. “You can’t know magic. It’s a force–a fact of nature. You have to focus it–to channel it…” Then, she blinks. “Is it different for you? Is it different here?”
“Wait…” Denzel looks up curiously.“What… How old are you? You don’t look over a young twenties…”
“Is it true that we taste like pork?” Mr. Raven asks excitedly.
Shadow licks again! It’s kind of like a rough cat tongue.
“Well… I have a different kind of magic. Some I learned and some I was created with, like the ability to manipulate emotions, that I was born with. Spells, I learned.”
“Really? I wonder what I taste like…” Denzel stops petting Shadow to… Yep, he’s taking a small bite of his arm…
Denzel’s whole thing is he loves to eat weird stuff lol.
Shadow also slinks back a bit at being scolded.
“Aww, he’s just a dumb baby. He doesn’t understand.” Mr. Raven rubs the creatures cheeks, squeezing them together some. A cute purr comes from the creature.
“Yeah. I can also slightly sense them. I totally rely on touch though, downside. My friend doesn’t need to do that.”
“So, he’s a juvenile? Like, not fully developed?” She stares, studying Shadow’s movements.
“Well, don’t eat yourself,” Yenansi chuckles. “It’s not worth it, because you’ll lose the energy chewing that you’d make up from digesting, anyways.”
“That’s pretty neat, though,” Stardust admits. “Dak Phai said she only knows one person–in all the sixteen contiguous Universes–who can manipulate emotions and read minds. But uh…” she pauses, peering out the window. “Given that I don’t think we’re where I’m from, it’s probably not your friend,” she chuckles.
