048 Red Letters

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Two years. Two years in this castle and it does THIS to her? Happy fucking anniversary, Nora, have some wings. Oh and by the way you're now FOUR FUCKING INCHES TALL and glow like Rudolph's nose when you fly around.

Yep. This year's out to a fantastic start.

She would have been perfectly happy to sit in her room and sulk until this was over but NO. Thanks to her new diminutive size and ineptitude at flying she ended up accidentally shut out of her own room by her boyfriend. Since sitting on the doorknob and sulking was lame (and cold) she decided that she might as well try to learn how to be less of a failure at flying since she had no idea how long she'd be stuck like this. That being decided she takes off, rolling her eyes only slightly at the red glow that surrounds her as she flies.

So the good news is she's getting better at flying. The bad news is she's still working on, uh, stopping. She turns a corner and realizes too late she's flying straight at someone. Wat do?!]

((OOC: Happy Paraversary, Nora! Feel free to see her/be run into anywhere in the castle))

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[theabjectauthor]

[Lemony, you really need to stop reading while you're walking around. you are not a Disney princess, and really, that hardcover copy of The Bears' Invasion of Sicily is just asking to be flown into.

--- paf.

see, this is why you should listen.]

What ....?

[eat_me_beat_me]

Ow

[If you look closely at the top of your book, Lemony, you may notice two very small hands clutching to the binding. There are two very small hands clutching to the binding as there is a very small fairy hanging off the front of your book trying to recover from having a very up close and personal encounter with it]

[theabjectauthor]

"Ow"?

[pardon him while he looks around, thoroughly confused. the voice is so small and faint that at first, he thinks it's coming from behind one of the closed doors in the hallway ... and therefore, if they're in need of help, they may not be able to hear him unless he raises his voice]

... Are you alright..!?

[sorry, Nora]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Fuck. Wings. She sighs and heaves herself up, pulling her arms over the top of the book so she can look at Lemony, a thoroughly unamused look on her face.]

Just fine and or dandy.

[theabjectauthor]

O!

[with that thoroughly manly shriek of horror, he promptly -- yep -- drops the book. he'll feel terrible for it in a moment, to be sure, but in perfect honesty, the last thing one expects out of one's modern fairy tales is ... well ... er ... actual fairies. at least, not when the book is about bears]

[is_mafia]

[Giotto isn't particularly paying attention to his surroundings, because he is in a hallway in the castle, but that is what he has Hyper Intuition for. He senses something, and acts before he even thinks, raising his hand up to catch the little red...streak...?

He blinks and turns his hand so his palm is flat, and realizes it is actually a fairy.]

Ah... are you quite all right?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She shakes her head, pushing her hair out of her face.]

Uh, yeah. I'm still kind of getting the hold of this flying thing.

[is_mafia]

I assume that you aren't always a fairy, then? [Is this a loss?]

[eat_me_beat_me]

No... only for the past few days.

[is_mafia]

Mm, a loss, then. [He nods and then gives her a small smile.] Well, I am glad you did not hurt yourself. Especially by running into me.

[silentrunning]

[Just your luck, Nora. It'd be a Chell you're flying at. A very confused Chell, who is... not quite used to fairies flying at her face. With a yelp she leaps back a step, instinctively holding out her hands to both shield her face and maybe catch what's flying at her so she can get a closer look. What the hell is going on here?]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora hits her hands with a squeak, grabbing hold to keep herself from falling to the floor. Congratulations, Chell, you now have a fairy clinging to your hands.]

[silentrunning]

[Chell's first instinct is to shake the small creature off her hands. But she doesn't. She'd heard that squeak. Her ears are pretty good. And that hadn't been the sort of squeak that had sounded like a squeak of attack. It had sounded more like a squeak of surprise, with maybe a little terror thrown in.]

[As slowly as she possibly could, Chell brought her hands closer to herself and then raised them closer to her eye, so she could get a good, long look at... whatever had grabbed onto her...]

[Chell blinks in surprise as she realizes there's a tiny little fairy clinging to her for dear life, but the surprise is soon replaced by a smile. She likes fairies. When the ones had been hanging around the Castle, she'd always tried to be nice to them. And fairies weren't a threat. She could speak to a fairy...]

"Hello, little fairy. Don't worry. I won't drop you."

[Carefully she moves one hand, as much as she can without dislodging the fairy, to give her an actual place to stand...]

"There. Is that better? Now you don't run the risk of falling."

[And then Chell looks at the fairy a bit more closely...]

"N-Nora? What... happened to you?"

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Whoa, solid(ish) ground. Nora stumbles slightly before slumping to sit on her friend's palm. She waves, looking tired. Flying is hard work after all]

Hi. Yeah I'm kinda on a loss.

[silentrunning]

[Chell nods sympathetically.]

"Stupid castle. What a horrible loss."

[She can't exactly hug Nora, due to her diminutive size, but she reaches out a fingertip to very lightly pet her hair.]

"Is there anything I can do to help you? You seem pretty miserable. Feel free to sit on my palm as long as you want. I never mind your company."

[delincuente]

[Alex's first instinct, after turning the corner and coming face to face with something tiny flying at her, is to swat at it. After all, it's getting close to her loss-required bedtime, and she's too tired to notice right off the bat that no, it's not a dragonfly.

The second she raises her arm to do just that, however, she blinks hard, and stares down at Nora's face.]

Dude, Nora?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora had yelped and rolled just in time to avoid being swatted, thankfully. She's kinda getting the hang of this. She spins upright, slightly out of breath as she waves with a miserable sounding.]

Hi...

[delincuente]

... Loss?

[She doesn't even have to ask, but she does so anyway, just in case it turns out that Nora was really a fairy all along or something. Alex wouldn't have been surprised.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[she rolls her eyes]

Whatever gave you that idea? The wings or the fact that I could lead Santa's sleigh?

[delincuente]

IDK, probably the fact that I could pick you up with, like, one finger now.

[Alex leans back against the nearest windowsill.]

Trying to get somewhere?

[psych0p0mps]

[WELL THIS SEEMS FAMILIAR

Aradia's headed in from outside, and upstairs through the lobby, where "headed upstairs" of course means "about 20 feet off the ground." Normally one does not run into other people this high up, but normally there are not any other fairies either.

She has just pulled back her hood to let it dry from the snow when she feels a very small impact at her back, and she turns around to see who's throwing stuff, not realizing that in doing so, she may have just gotten someone stuck in the hood.]

What was that?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She did indeed get someone stuck inside her hood. That being the case the reply is very muffled as said someone tries to make her way OUT of the hood]

[psych0p0mps]

[Did I say "upstairs" I actually meant "toward the transportalizer" SHHHHHHHHHH IT STILL KIND OF MAKES SENSE.]

[Anyway, in her own turning around and finding nobody there, she fails to notice the small movement in her hood, and with a shrug she continues her flight to the base of Terrere Tower. She opens the door remotely so she doesn't have to stop, then closes it behind her in the same way just as her feet touch down on the transportalizer pad. Hope you like that odd feeling of spacial displacement!]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[The muffled protests get even more frantic as Nora tries desperately to free herself from... wherever she is. WTF, MAN!]

[psych0p0mps]

[Well by now Aradia's humming to herself, so yeah, not hearing a thing. She only stops a room or two later, upon noticing the monkey she's been living with for the past while and a half, and waves to it as she plops down on the sofa.] Hey, Ruu.

[Ruu chitters in response and scratches his butt, and Aradia resumes humming. But the monkey has noticed something Aradia has not - namely, that there is something moving around in her hood. He comes over to investigate, poking lightly at the moving thing.]