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[dracobin]

I appear to have--damaged my harness, and also a dear possession of mine, while I was in the bottle.

[His ruff droops guiltily. Is that a note of embarrassment in his voice? Of course it is. He is nothing if not transparent.]

If there is anyone here with a talent for leatherworking, or perhaps metalworking, I should be very glad to hear it.

[private to anyone who encountered his mirrorverse self in Kithika]

I--I must beg your pardon, if I said anything to you that was very rude, or stupid, or both; you may rest assured I am in my right mind again, and the incident is unlikely to repeat itself, and I should like it very much if you forgot everything I--that is to say he--told you, and pay it no mind at all, because it is not true.

[Beat.]

And I should think it obvious that goes doubly for you, M. Pontmercy.

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[iguanasolution]

Or simply a burger. [He decides to focus on that rather than the 'proper battle' part because while Romans thought war was the better way to keep peace sometimes, Frank disagreed. His mother had died in war, so nothing good could come out of them.]

Is that what you eat? Cows?

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[dracobin]

A burger? [He pauses, distracted.] What is that?

Oh, yes: cows and sheep, mostly, although there is nothing so nice as a lovely elephant, and of course one cannot find anything of the sort on the turtle, at all. I have had to make do with fish, which is perfectly respectable, only one gets so tired of it, these days.

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[iguanasolution]

[A shrug] Well, humans can't really eat an entire cow so we have to eat pieces of it- and a burger is like a patty of meat? [He tries to show how flat the piece of meat is by pressing his hands together.] And it's cooked. I like it with bacon myself, but not cheese since I'm lactose intolerant.

Also if... you ever see an Elephant around don't eat it? Because it could be me.

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[dracobin]

Oh, I quite like my meat cooked, as well, and seasoned, though of course I will eat it raw if need be. And I have never had bacon myself, but the aviators quite like it, and one cannot deny it smells very good, when it is cooking.

[A pause. Temeraire pushes his nose closer to the screen, clearly baffled as to how or why anyone might mistake someone like Frank for an elephant.]

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[iguanasolution]

Well, d'uh. If your kind has fire you must use to cook the meat, right? [Forgive him for being a bit stereotypical, Temerarie. It's not like he's had the chance to talk about it with actual dragons.]

I'm a shapeshifter. I can shift into a lot of animals? If I know them, anyway. And I've been told I make a handsome elephant. [By his girlfriend, no less.]

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[dracobin]

[As it is, he likes Frank well enough boy now to let the comment slide with only a brief ruffle of his wings.] Well, it is not so in my world: most dragons do not breathe fire, at all, and it is only some breeds which have the ability.

A shapeshifter! [He sits up, properly interested now.] Why, you might have said so; if I had seen a particularly tasty-looking cow, or an elephant, wandering about Keeliai, I might not have stopped to inquire whether or not it could speak.