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There is one visit during the day from a lady down the street who has made the girls a casserole, on the grounds that it can be hard to remember to eat when bereaved. Bella thanks her sincerely, sniffles a little, and sends her on her way. The casserole is shared around for lunch. Bella asks Ax what Andalites eat, and when she finds out, she locates a bag of grass clippings in the backyard that he pronounces acceptable. She also asks him how he eats them. By way of illustration, he steps both forehooves into the bag of clippings.
Night falls.
They can all go to the Seattle zoo and acquire everything they can get their hands on.
palmofyourhand
"Yes," says Ethan, "I wonder why that is? Can't imagine. Go and get your pretty snake now."
pandion
Everyone else may as well get the pretty snake, too. "Wait, there's a specific reason that it doesn't bother you?"
aeskhyne
"Kinda, yeah," says Trouble.
The snake is sleeping, and sleeps through everyone acquiring it. Since there is more than enough snake for everyone to touch at once - it's about twenty feet long - this doesn't take much time at all.
The snake is sleeping, and sleeps through everyone acquiring it. Since there is more than enough snake for everyone to touch at once - it's about twenty feet long - this doesn't take much time at all.
aeskhyne
"Mmm..." says Trouble, not like he's evading, more like he's trying to figure out how to put it.
hold-infinity
Robin, as the last one out of the enclosure, shuts the door behind her.
"Trouble doesn't seem to think that changing his sex or his species makes him any less essentially Trouble," she offers as a partial explanation.
"Trouble doesn't seem to think that changing his sex or his species makes him any less essentially Trouble," she offers as a partial explanation.
pandion
"Well, yeah. It's just morphs, we're still us," says Andi. "It's just weirder for me to be boy animals."
aeskhyne
"Right," says Trouble. "But it's not weird for me to be girl animals, because... I'm not not a girl."
aeskhyne
"Girl," he repeats. "It's not a one-or-the-other thing for me; morphing Robin or a female bear or whatever doesn't make me feel like I'm doing something against the nature of who I am; I don't correct people when they say 'he' or whatever, because I'm also not not a guy, but if you all suddenly decided that you were going to treat me like a girl from now on it wouldn't be weird or upsetting or hard to handle. It would be just as okay as treating me like a guy is."
palmofyourhand
"It is observably a thing," says Ethan. "Observe its thingness. Are we going to stand around chatting, or are we planning to get home before the clock strikes midnight and we all turn into pumpkins?"
aeskhyne
He considers this question for a few seconds, and then says, "Stress level. If you're asking if I'm gonna wake up if somebody breaks in while I'm napping on the couch, the answer's 'probably'."
"Okay. The alternative involves moderately uncomfortable bed-shuffling shenanigans to put Andi who wakes up when people breathe on the couch."