::Open RP - Welcome to the Confusion!::

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

So, the talking hat (which was somehow more intimidating than a talking fridge) had placed Satou in Ravenclaw. The trouble was,he had no idea what that meant, and the bizarre little bug-eyed big-eared creatures he'd seen scuttling around unnerved him too much to try and ask.

He had, however, taken Kurama's promise of free room and board to heart, and a bit of wandering had lead him to the Great Hall, which happened to have a modest buffet laid out. Jackpot! Before anyone could tell him he couldn't, he took a plate and began piling on fish and chips (mostly fish).

That was the board part seen to. Now he needed to sort out the room.

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[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a writer," she said mildly, "I'm a cook." status that she was quite proud of.

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Did you ask all this?" he asked incredulously.

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"No, but I cook with A." She smiled a little. "Special things that the house elves don't think to make."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

Was A a person? That was an odd name. or maybe itt was a nickname. "Are house elves those... little gobliny things? I wasn't sure if other people saw them."

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"I can see them, I'm pretty sure everyone else can." She smiled. "They're normal for here. Not like, you know, furniture coming to life, or anything like that."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

Satou choked at that. She was worse than Misaki!

"I know it doesn't really," he mumbled.

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"Not usually. Unless you cast a charm on the furniture. Would you like me to show you?"

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"I don't understand."

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

She took her wand out from its hiding place in her sleeve, pointing at one of the chairs positioned innocently against one wall. she cast a movement spell (she had seen one like it done on some brooms by an overachieving mouse, once, but there were no wells here that she knew of, thus no chance of flooding) and beckoned the chair to come over. Its legs buckled a moment, and then it galloped across the hall to stand next to her.

"Like so."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" It was something from out of his hallucinations, but it seemed very, very real, and he shivered.

"That's disturbing."

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"And useful," River added brightly, sitting in the chair. It danced in place a second and took her around the hall once while she hung on, grinning all the while. The ride stopped again in front of Satou, and she looked down at him. "Not to mention tons of fun. I was thinking of racing someone once I figured out how to cast it on two at the same time."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Racing chairs?" He giggled nervously. "How fast do they go?"

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "No clue. Once the snow melts, I'll try it out. Safer to fall on grass than on stone floors, right?"

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"That depends," Satou said gloomily. "There could be a snake hiding in the grass, or rusty nails."

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"The odds of that happening..." she rattled off a few variables that the mun can't be arsed to try and figure out, and then shrugged. "About 1752 to one, if my math is right. I'll take those chances. Besides, it isn't like any of us can die here."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Someone told me that. About not being able to die here." He gave her a haunted look. "How do you stand it?"

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "Mostly I don't think about it. Death is an adventure I'm not ready for."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"You make it sound as bad as living," he said with a twitch.

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"As bad as?" She didn't quite understand that. He was a little too fuzzy in that department to tell.

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"As living! 'Adventure'. Obstacles. Barriers to peace and happiness and the ability to just be."

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"Being is adventurous. The process of being born is adventurous." She got down from her chair, crouching in front of him again.

"The human female body is made up in such a way that it should be impossible for our race to continue. Not just the process of conception, but of even growing in the womb is so difficult for a single potential to manage that actually making it through gestation is a miracle. The stresses put on a human body just by existing are even more insane."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

He really, really didn't want a cute young girl talking to him about female bodies and wombs.

"Life is a series of stresses. Is it so strange for someone to want to escape it?"

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"If it were possible, but I'd think that, after you go through all the trouble of being born, you should use your body to its fullest. You wouldn't buy clothing only to wear it once, or food only to take one bite, would you?"

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"But if it was clothing you were given that you didn't want and didn't fit, and food that you didn't order and didn't like, would you wear it and eat it?"

Again, he tried to ignore the bit about using his body to its fullest, and wished she'd stop talking about bodies in general.

[biblerewrite.livejournal.com]

"Good point." She looked thoughtful a moment. "Yours looks fine. What's the matter with it? Disease? Cancer? Birth defect? It isn't visible, whatever it is."