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no_fastolfe) wrote2011-07-29 07:16 pm
no_fastolfe) wrote2011-07-29 07:16 pm
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[The image cuts on, and the first thing that can be seen is a black bill descending rapidly to punch the keys. Viciously. A canada goose eyes the screen with the malice generally expected of geese.
Non-animals will hear angry hissing and the occasional honk as the creature flaps angrily.
Animals will hear:]
AAAAAH WHAT IS THIS HOW DARE YOU AAAAAAAH MADNESS AND TORTURE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
[In the dulcet tones of one Vasilia Aliena. Her first flood had to happen some time]
Non-animals will hear angry hissing and the occasional honk as the creature flaps angrily.
Animals will hear:]
AAAAAH WHAT IS THIS HOW DARE YOU AAAAAAAH MADNESS AND TORTURE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
[In the dulcet tones of one Vasilia Aliena. Her first flood had to happen some time]
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He has no sense of it, of course, but he'd gotten lucky this time around: A hawk was a born predator, and this sort of hawk understood the idea of "allies". Even if they looked a little odd. (And edible.)]
Insignificant. Yes.
[He gapes his beak soundlessly, a hawk's smile.]
That is how they win.
Beat them.
Private, video
Of course.
She'll worry about Rinzler's grasp of her psychological quirks later]
Yes.
[Bill up]
Yes; they want resignation.
[She was young and less hateful once. She remembers this awkward, small feeling, the one of uncomplicated gratitude]
--Thank you.
[It's a little rusty, and she immediately starts focusing on preening a very recalcitrant stray feather on her back rather than the screen.]
Private, video.
It's been mostly instinct. But his instincts have always been keen.
He gives a pleased nod to her thanks, rousing his own feathers.]
Yes. [Of course. He'd do it again if he had to.] Win.
[With that, he hops out of the frame of the camera, leaning back in to it once to tap some unseen button with his beak and cut the feed.]