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[the_marli_tharn]

Who: Hyzenthlay (the_marli_tharn) and YOU!
What: Welcoming a rabbit to a castle (or 'This place is too big and smells like man')
When: Easter Sunday!
Where: in and around the Lobby, under couches and behind chairs
Rating: G.

It had been a harrowing escape, and there was more the one instance where Hyzenthlay doubted they were going to make it. Not all of them did.

But of all the things she had expected to happen next, as they sat damp and bedraggled on the bank the next day, was to blink and suddenly find herself in a man's house. It reeked of man, and it was filled with all manner of strange and frightening things.

She froze, pressed tight against the floor of the lobby, ears flat against her back and nose working furiously. She couldn't smell any of them - Thlayli, Thethuthinnang, or even Kehaar - and she couldn't tell if it was just an absence of them or the overpowering stench of Man.

The moment she gets her wits about her enough to move, she darts under the nearest cover (a couch) and spends the morning trying to evade detection and explore, trying to find any clue where the rest could have gotten off to.

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[godborn]

[Daine had arrived earlier as well, and after combing through some of the magic book, she decides exploring might be a good idea. Making her way into the lobby, she stops, pinpointing the cause of the frightened feeling in her magical sight. It's certainly a strange location for a rabbit in the first place, though she's more focused on calming the poor creature down.

Wordlessly, she moves and sits in the middle of the lobby floor, setting her unstrung bow beside her. She reaches out with a sliver of magical copper fire to soothe the other party. After allowing a moment for inspection, Daine "speaks" through her magic.]

(You're a long way from the warren.)

[the_marli_tharn]

[Hyzenthlay watches from her hiding spot, trying to keep an eye on Daine without moving so much as a whisker. The magical touch does as it intends, and her fear ebbs slightly, giving way to confusion.]

[This looked like a man. She even smelled like a man, but Hyzenthlay was not getting the sense that this newcomer was a man. Doubt set in; man had many tools and tricks for bagging rabbits, snares and guns and dogs, so maybe this was just some new trick. She remained under the couch, for the moment.]

[And then came the magic mind-speak. She could hear the words, but not with her ears. She swivelled one, then the other, forward, unsure.]

(I am quite a ways from both, I should think.)

[godborn]

[Daine can sense the confusion, and she can't help but smile slightly. Things like this are typical for her. Animals that aren't around her often enough take a little time to come to terms with her contact, but she's got time and patience to spare.]

(Did you simply arrive here as well?)

[the_marli_tharn]

[She will need time, for while the connection is nonthreatening itself, the sight of Daine is still causing Hyzenthlay to hesitate, the evil of man being an omnipresent thing with rabbits in general, and Efrafans in specific.]

(I did. I don't know how I got here. How do I get back?) [Bigwig would be wondering where she went. And his Cheif, Hazel, as well, probably. Their journey wasn't at an end, yet.]

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[His main duty of the year done, Bunny is heading back towards the gardens to his warm, comfy burrow to sleep for a freakin' week. As he makes his way through the lobby, though, the movement of Hyzenthlay catches his eyes.

Well. That was new. He'll drop down to all fours, trying at least to make himself look less terrifying. He couldn't really talk to rabbits, not Earth ones, because after all, he was anything but an Earth rabbit. But in Paradisa...well, anything was possible]

Hello.

[the_marli_tharn]

[She smelled him first, elated at the thought of another rabbit even with the chance that it might be an Efrafan caught up with her. The movement and shadow, however, were much too large for a rabbit (at least none that she knew, even Woundwart or Vervain) and a fraction after smelling Bunnymund she tensed to bolt]

[But, that was not a man that was watching her. It was - by far - the largest, most frightening rabbit she had ever seen. She freezes in response, staring at him with wide, startled eyes.]

[If he had been black she would have instantly assumed he was the Black Rabbit of Inlé, come to take her, but he wasn't. He was grey. Grey with odd markings, as if Frith himself had painted them on ...]

[Could it be? Could she really be staring at El-ahrairah?]

My lord ...

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[Well, that answers his communication question, but her reaction is surprising. He chuckles a little, still keeping his posture non-threatening]

A lord? Me? Not likely.

[the_marli_tharn]

[She knew she'd been denied some of her instincts, some of what being a rabbit was all about in Efrafa, and now she fears she's somehow overstepped her bounds or otherwise embarrassed herself.]

[It never would have crossed her mind what she might say to the Prince with a Thousand Enemies.]

I am sorry. What would you prefer I call you?

[thatrabbitsdynamite]

[It's not the sort of thing you plan to have, after all, a conversation with the greatest of rabbits. Bunnymund probably thinks himself as pretty great, but remains oblivious to what she's actually getting at]

The name's Bunnymund.

...Are you new? I haven't seen any rabbits here since I got here.

[not_mafia]

At some point, Tsuna finally manages to get away from the barrage of attacks from his friends-- some friends they were-- and after drying himself off and getting into some new clothes, he comes back down to the lobby, only to see something dart across the room.

"Hee!" he jumps a bit at the sudden movement, because he definitely hadn't been expecting that. And then he just kind of stands there, blinking.

I... didn't imagine that just then, did I?

Cautiously and uncertainly, he calls out.

"H.. hello?"

[the_marli_tharn]

She crouches in her hiding place, all instincts telling her to sit still and quiet, but she couldn't help but wonder ... how was it she could understand him?

She understood the other man, earlier, the female one that had spoken to her with her mind, but she wasn't sure that one was entirely man and not some trick by something more clever. This one looked, smelled, and felt like a man, which made Hyzenthlay even more confused by the situation in general.

Without moving from her place, she calls out, her voice soft with a gentle English accent to it.

"Hello?"

[not_mafia]

His head turns at the soft voice, but he doesn't see anyone... And then he blinks, because right, the voice probably came from what had darted across the room.

So he kneels down, and sees the little eyes reflecting light back to him. Some small animal...?

"Ah... hey there. Are you on a loss?"

[the_marli_tharn]

"I am lost, yes."

She stays still, nothing moving aside from her nose and her rapidly beating heart.

"I can understand you." She says it hardly louder then a whisper, with a tone of disbelief.

[originalcopy]

Church was back in his armor and on his way out of the castle. Intending to get back to the outpost and away from the myriad things running through his head. He almost misses the streak of brown darting under the couch.

"What the?"

He approaches slowly and squats down as well as his armor will allow. Bracing himself with a hand he peeks carefully under. A rabbit?

"How did you get in here?"

[the_marli_tharn]

Oh great Frifth it was a man wearing a hrududu.

Hyzenthlay cannot reconcile much else from this terrifying thought as she pushes further back against the wall in her little space. He didn't smell quite like a man, or quite like a hrududu for that matter, but she couldn't think of any other explanation.

"Get back!" She squeaked, waiting for an opening to dart away, too frightened for the moment to properly register that she was even talking to it.

[originalcopy]

"Whoah, hey... easy."

Church backs off a bit, not wanting to panic the poor thing further. It takes him a few seconds for the fact that heard her talk to register.
Normally he'd dismiss the idea as ridiculous... but this place was starting to make him rethink that sort of thing.

"I'm not going to hurt you."

[the_marli_tharn]

It's still pretty ridiculous to her ... at least, that's what she'll think when she gives herself a moment to.

She settles slightly when he backs off, although she's still tensed and ready to bolt should he try anything. If a man by himself were frightening, Church was that times ten, possibly a hundred.

"Said the homba to the hlessi." She spoke out of nerves, hardly seeing how he was capable of anything but.

[foughtfortheusers]

Rinzler sees the small animal in the lobby, and he's glad he left the Pokemon behind. They might hurt the little creature, whatever it is. And it could be a resident...

He's following it, a soft rumbling noise audible.

[the_marli_tharn]

She may not have well-honed tracking like the Watership warren, but she can still sense when something isn't right, and while he doesn't smell like any man she's ever known she can still catch the faint whiff of something.

The rumbling noise, however, reaches her ears quick, and she immediately freezes and swivels them back to hear it better.

[foughtfortheusers]

Rinzler is watching the animal with amusement. Silly animal. Rinzler wasn't going to hurt it. Just watch. The rumbling goes quiet as he continues stalking.

"Identify."

[the_marli_tharn]

She startles at his voice, and while normally she may have bolted, the word and the tone of it registers as familiar from her life in Efrafa. She turns towards the voice, crouching low to the ground in submission and averting her eyes.

"Hyzenthlay, of the Near Hind Mark, sir."

It's then that she glances up at him, and while she'd initially thought one of the Efrafans caught her up, what she's looking at is no rabbit at all.

AAAH! Mun squees in pure, unadulterated joy. <3

[silentrunning]

[There's a human girl wandering into the lobby... She's not noticed the rabbit yet. In fact, she's not noticed much of anything. She takes a perch on a sofa, and starts idly flipping through her journal. Hmm. Now the big question. Is there a Hyzenthlay under her sofa?]

gneee :3

[the_marli_tharn]

[There is indeed a Hyzenthlay under her sofa! A Hyzenthlay who is now wondering about moving her current hiding spot to be a little farther from the human girl.]

[While the humans here she's met haven't been that threatening (aside from the man wearing a hrududu), the instinct to fear them first and foremost is too well-ingrained.]

[If Chell's listening, she might catch the soft padding of a rabbit hopping under a nearby coffee table, or if she's quick enough she might see the flash of a white tail as Hyzenthlay seeks out a new hiding place.]

DAWWWWW!

[silentrunning]

[Chell's got the most amazing peripheral vision ever. She catches that flash of a tail, and instinct dictates she should follow the movement with her eyes. She's not seen what sort of creature that was, only that it was fuzzy and had a white tail. And that could be many kinds of creatures. And unlike most humans, Chell's not opposed to talking to animals. After all, there's no telling. The animal in question could possibly talk back.]

Hello?

[Chell ventures. Her voice is softer than most, and very husky, as if speaking's not something she does often.]

Are you on a loss? Or are you new around here? My name's Chell.

[Yup. Introducing herself to rabbits? Something she'd do every day if given a chance.]

Re: DAWWWWW!

[the_marli_tharn]

[It's still disconcerting to her that she can understand them, and waits until she's settled in a new hiding spot before turning around and bearely poking her nose out into the open.]

I am new, I am called Hyzenthlay.