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[pterosaur]

Crowded. Good thing the ticking's gone back to as normal as it gets, or there'd probably be riots.

Glad I can fly, anyway.

[Open to 4thwall.]

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[pratentious]

[ ...


what


are you? ]

[pterosaur]

[Time traveling girl in a giant pterosaur's body.

...They don't have those where you're from?]

[pratentious]

[ SORCERY


...


should he kill it? ._." ]

[pterosaur]

[You could try? Don't think you'll be able to manage, though. Getting killed isn't in her busy schedule of finding ways to entertain herself.]

[pratentious]

[ Not that he really wants to kill her.

But seriously. What the Hell.]

[pterosaur]

[Welcome to Polychromatic, Arthur.]

[pratentious]

[ Welcome, nothing! This makes no sense. In God's name, Arthur, are you a knight of Camelot or aren't you? ]

You, there. Creature. [ So rude but asldkfjlaskdjf what else should he say? ] What manner of sorcery is this, and why have I been brought here?

[ Because clearly the magical creature will know all the answers. That's just how it works. ]

[pterosaur]

['Creature'? Janine looks down at him out of one big red eye, and talks back in an imitation of his tone.]

You there, human. This is The City. It does this.

[pratentious]

[ D-did it just get smart with him? The Hell? ]

'The City?' What city would that be? And how does it...'do this?'

[pterosaur]

Just the City. It doesn't really have a name. 'This' just happens; people appear here, stay a while, sometimes get sent back... Wherever this is, you can't get back normally.

[draconically]

[ ...Now that's curious. ]

A pterosaur. And a talking one, nonetheless.

[pterosaur]

Telepathic. I have a 'real' voice, but it's just [She makes a sound like a caw.]

[draconically]

I should clarify - a sentient pterosaur with the intellectual capacity to comprehend the significance of language. That's intriguing in itself; that you do it through telepathy is an equally fascinating prospect all its own.

[pterosaur]

It's a long, long story.

I'm Janine.

[draconically]

I'd be utterly disappointed if it were a short one.

Professor Ernst Reisenbach.

[pterosaur]

Pleasure. New to our fair City, right?

[draconically]

As I understand it, I'm a temporary visitor. It's certainly exciting; I've never had occasion to visit a parallel universe before.

[pterosaur]

Mm. This would be mine, too, though I don't know how long I'll stay. I've traveled through time before though.

[draconically]

Is that also a capability of being a pterosaur, or something else entirely?

[pterosaur]

More the other way around... being a pterosaur is because of the time travel, basically.

video;

[proudofthat]

[ Deadpan: ] Biggest bird I've ever seen.

Re: video;

[pterosaur]

[...Huh.]

Chattiest cat I've ever encountered.

video;

[proudofthat]

Well, you know how it is. [ He grooms a paw. ] Sometimes you just don't know what to say.

Re: video;

[pterosaur]

There's that.

No trouble with the device thing? You'd think they'd be made for human hands, but mine's been okay.

video;

[proudofthat]

Oh, it's not too bad. Big buttons.

[ He has a nice kind of childish-looking device. Not many buttons, and a string so he can carry it around in his mouth. ]

I don't know why people bother though. The streets are way more interesting.

Re: video;

[pterosaur]

Yeah? I'm a little big for most of them. Yeah, usually I can fit, but it's weird.

video;

[proudofthat]

How'd a bird like you get so big, anyway? Too much seed?

Re: video;

[pterosaur]

[She snorts, the sound made strangely resonant by the big hollow space in her beak.]

Fish. Anyway, they made 'em big in the distant past. You don't even know how big I am.

[Video]

[goesagainst_thegrain]

A pterosaur... quetzalcoatlus or hatzegopteryx most likely, too big to be anything else.

[Pause.]

How are you able to use this device? Most of your kind couldn't operate a toaster, much less a sensitive piece of equipment like this.

Re: [Video]

[pterosaur]

[Janine's eyes are somewhat more sensitive to color than a human's would be, so -

What

what

and in the ultraviolet range

oh, wow.

She's impressed. It's the most garish thing she's ever seen. It's like he tracked down the gaudiest of the mating-season Leptoceratops and studied at its hoof/clawed feet until the student surpassed the master.]

Re: [Video]

[pterosaur]

[It's the funniest thing she's ever seen, but her laugh reflex seems to have been misplaced. There's amusement in her voice, but it's not interrupted, not going all funny with the need to hold back.]

I'm really a kind of one, when you get down to it.