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]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She shrieks as she drops with the book. She has about half a second of panic before realizing. Right. Wings. She opens her wings and lets go of the book, tumbling in the air for a moment before managing to straighten out and fly back to eye level]

Hey!

[theabjectauthor]

[he scrambles back, terrified - because, well. okay so he's not sure if he's terrified because OMG FAIRY or because he nearly killed it. either way, there's terror. and besides, the fairy is glowing red, and that's generally not a friendly color unless you are Chinese, in which case it's the color of good fortune, so maybe it's a Chinese fairy. maybe.

she's a little pale for that, though. he squints to get a closer look and possibly judge the ethnicity of the little flying creature he nearly conscripted to death by little-known literary masterpiece -- and then his eyes widen]

Miss Diniro?!

[YOU ARE CERTAINLY NOT CHINESE.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She bobs in the air a little as she nods]

Hi...

[She gives him a meek little wave] I'm kinda on a loss. It started a couple of days ago.

[theabjectauthor]

[remember that guilt that was said to be forthcoming?]

And I -- I nearly -- OH.

[he bites his lip and winces]

Oh, Nora, I'm terribly sorry ... I didn't realize ...! Are you alright?!

[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?

[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.]

[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.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Awww so cute, Lemony. She shrugs]

It's okay. I'm sorry I ran into you... I'm still having trouble stopping.

[theabjectauthor]

I can see how the aerodynamics could be a little imperfect, yes ... [he peers at her, curious now] Perhaps we could find a book in the library that could help?

[is_mafia]

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

[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]

You know I never even thought of that. [she pauses] not that I could actually lift a book on my own right now...

[please oh please could you help your diminutive friend, Lemony?]

[eat_me_beat_me]

No... only for the past few days.

[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.

[theabjectauthor]

How very fortunate that you happen to have a friend who would be more than happy to help you look, then.

[he holds out his hand, palm down, for her to land on]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She smiles and flies over, landing thankfully in his hand. Unused to solid ground, her legs wobble and she sinks to her knees, sighing as she sits on his palm.]

Thank you. I feel so helpless being this small. I can't really do much of anything for myself...

[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.]