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[deadclumsy]

[The shock of pink hair attached to a young woman occupies the left half of the screen. It's obvious that she's had the crash course in use of these interesting devices, but that her familiarity with them is non-existent.

When she realizes she's not centered on camera, she scoots over a bit, double-checks, and then off she goes.]

Can't say I'm tickled pink with the theme of this particular party, but what choice've I got? I'm here, right?

[Her hands go up in a mocking 'you caught me' gesture.

Hah. Yeah, right. No one's getting off that easy. This isn't exactly what Nymphadora Tonks was planning to do with her day. Maybe if she'd had a little forewarning about being technically abducted, sure, she could have planned out using weird tech and having her soul stuck in a little dark purple stone on a ring.

She didn't get that luxury, though, so no one here gets the luxury of avoiding her questionable (and oddly mirthful) wrath.]

You see, the thing here is - I mean, the reason I've got my knickers twisted - is I was minding my own business when I got snatched up. If I hadn't been minding my own business, it'd be a different story. If I'd been hexing your turtle from a broomstick thirty feet up, sure, I could completely understand you lot being a bit miffed. Hexing a turtle's not on.

But me, I was just going through my daily rota as one does, completely innocent and not at all aware of cities on the backs of turtles.

Nevermind I was about to tuck in to my supper. That's just rude.

[With a dramatic sigh, she continues sympathetically:]

Oh, but I suppose you all couldn't help yourselves. It's the hair, isn't it? People just love the hair.

[All right; she's not that upset. Yet. She loves a good adventure, and either the reality of her predicament hasn't quite hit home - or she's going to save her fretting for a more private moment.]

Comments

[akito]

It isn't strange where I come from... Or very strange here, either. The boy I liked at home kept falling for girls with pink hair. And here, the kedan can shapeshift to weird colours and textures.

[deadclumsy]

Good to know. Can you do it? Shapeshift, that is.

[akito]

I... can. Within limitation... I can't for a while longer though, since there is a virus going around that gets worse if you shapeshift.

[deadclumsy]

[...No one. Mentioned this.

The color drains from Tonks' face, and that has absolutely nothing to do with her shapeshifting ability.]

A virus? What kind of virus? How many people have it?

[akito]

A lot of the kedan do. I don't know of any Foreigners apart from me who caught it, and I think it was from a combination of my job, immune system, and shapeshifting...

It's like a bad strain of the flu. It sucks a lot.

[ given that he looks kinda like death warmed over, you can take his word for it ms tonks.]

Really, really sucks.

[deadclumsy]

...You caught it from the Kedan?

[Who does she need to avoid, kid?]

[akito]

Un, yeah. But my job is as a person who makes deliveries, so I was delivering things to and from kedan who were not feeling well. Foreigners have a high resistance to it, so I thought it would be okay...

[ and he thought wrong. oops. ]

[deadclumsy]

So...let's say I might be a shapeshifter. What're my odds of catching...whatever it is you have?

[akito]

As long as you don't shapeshift after being exposed to someone who has it, you should be okay. It's only if you have the virus and you shapeshift that it makes the strain more... [ what's a good word for it... ]

Makes the strain a bigger pain in the butt. I never got the memo about shapeshifting until it was too late, ne? Because it's not something Foreigners are known for being able to do.

[deadclumsy]

Huh.

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for letting me know.

[akito]

You're welcome, Ms. Not-a-Shapeshifter!

[ look at him, with such a witty sense of humor. ]

[deadclumsy]

[With a smile:]

Tonks. Just 'Tonks'.

[akito]

Tonks, then.

I'm Akito! Usually I run a delivery service, but I am still on sick leave until the healer says I can have fun again.

[ this sucks worse than the first time he felt sick here, because he is conscious enough to actually feel how miserable he is and can't do the usual distracting fun stuff... :'( all the tears.

so plz excuse the huffy whiny tone. he's used to running nonstop until he drops. probably why he caught the virus in the first place. ]

You can stay in the Midnight Hotel until you find a place of your own. Mr. Anton will let anyone in need stay as long as they repay him doing what they can.