Greetings always followed by sweet goodbyes [Open]

[justbeingknife]

Who: Majima Gorō and OPEN
When: June!
Where: Everywhere!
What: Giant chickens, runework, plus quests and basically a monthly catch-all.
Warnings: Violence in the sunbear fight thread. Salty language, maybe.


A: I'll call you Nugget

[ Whoever had said 'don't go borrowing trouble' had been a smart guy, a wise man indeed, but the thing about being told you could potentially learn to transform yourself into a totally rad magic animal was that Majima wanted to do it immediately. So it was a quiet day in the Haven, sure -- up until, with a brilliant burst of magical fireworks, a giant, six-foot tall feathery menace descended upon one of the courtyards, stalking through the garden. ]

Fuck.

[ Someone get an adult. ]

B: Runetchers

[ Majima looked up when the shop door opened. It was a slow day, which meant he'd been making progress with the pile of scrolls and other orders for enchanted items. It also meant that his fingers were cramped, and a little distraction couldn't hurt. ]

Hi there, welcome to Runetchers.

[ He stood, gave the potential customer a little bow in a show of impeccable good manners. ]

Are you lookin' for anything in particular?

Research Required (For Justine)

Oh, I... yeah. Is there any way we could skip that part?

[ Apparently, no one had told Majima that this particular research was going to require Bonding. Hey, don't get him wrong -- connections were important, and so was emotional support? But getting himself magically attached to someone when he still hadn't made peace with the idea of sticking around long-term didn't really strike him as the best of ideas.

...especially since he wasn't sure if he wanted to get un- magically attached. He looked around for a friendly face, wondering how the hell he was going to bullshit his way out of this one. ]

Pastoral Pursuit (For Iramaat)

Hey, uh. For what it's worth, I'm sorry about your ears.

[ Look, maybe while they were wandering out into the woods looking for some stray sheep was not the best time to bring this up? But hey, Iramaat's ears had been kind of cool, and she knew how to nab foxes, and Majima knew if he'd had to give up one of his favorite features, he'd be pretty pissed about it.

With no outward signs of change, it was fairly obvious what side of the monster-witch coin that Majima had ended up on. He climbed over a fallen tree trunk, careful not to stave in its soft trunk. ]

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Comments

[long_live_the_queen]

[Kaede watched him for a moment--so he really did mean that--and, quietly, knelt to tidy up the row she'd nearly put a foot in.

It wasn't long before the next perplexing thing, though. No one had...really asked her that before.

She marked this momentous occasion with--]

Um.

[And just...stood there, hand still half curled around a rock she meant to scoop away from the flowers.]

...I don't know. I haven't gotten stabbed. There's people in that house I didn't know were there. [She unfroze enough to gesture at the mansion, and finally scooted the rock away.]

[justbeingknife]

Well, good on ya for not gettin' stabbed, that's definitely a positive.

[ Kaede was just a little bit concerning, here. ]

Would those be people ya like, or ones ya don't? For the most part, I'd say people've been pretty decent to me.

Kind of a surprise, really.

[ He pulled out another spiny weed, and tossed it into the pile. ]

[long_live_the_queen]

I can deal with them.

[So people she likes, maybe. That was how you did interpersonal relationships, wasn't it?]

There's lots of places in the house to stay without talking to anyone. I haven't even checked the basement yet.

[justbeingknife]

Hey, what more could ya ask for? From a situation like this, anyhow.

[ He scraped a rock aside, patting down the earth after it to smooth the growing surface. ]

I found out I was a witch. Uh, obviously. So I've been goin' to class for the first time in years.

[long_live_the_queen]

What's that like?

[Kaede hadn't been in a classroom since the orphanage. That she remembered, anyway. She didn't remember them ever teaching how to turn into chickens. Such a letdown, honestly.]

[justbeingknife]

Class? It's...

Well, it's definitely different from the first time around. The students ain't as fidgety, but it really depends on the instructor. Some of those older guys can really drone on.

I always did better workin' in practical terms. But hey, you could come and sit in on a class, couldn't ya?

[ Assuming, of course, that Kaede was mostly asking about what it was like in a magic class. ]