[ oh you can bet this dude is in the kitchen. he's in his canon outfit, chopping up vegetables to put them in a pot with something that smells diabolically spicy. his tail wags gently behind him.
his ears swivel a bit when he hears footsteps, and he glances over his shoulder. a pause. ]
[ fidelio is also in his canon outfit which i'm not going to link because you know what it looks like! he's also got his backpack on.
anyway, oh, the other paripus. he gives a nod of acknowledgement. ]
Little bit.
[ sniffs the air... oh, that smells like it would probably kill him. ]
...I'm pretty sure me brother'll find his way here before too long and start cookin' up a feast of his own, though, so I'm not lookin' to fill up too much before then.
[ this is so valid i wouldn't want to eat jiaoqiu's cooking either
but he seems content with that answer, humming. more for him! and besides, he thinks it's nice to eat with family. that's important. though - something occurs to him. ]
Your brother? [ ... ] Your brother wouldn't happen to be Basilio, would it?
[ he'd had no idea how to even read that name... figured he'd have to camp out by the door of the room later so he could give some stranger the third degree when they tried to go in. ]
That's you?
[ that's a relief, honestly; if basilio had to be assigned to a room with someone other than him or eupha, a paripus who seems to make a habit of handing food out to people is probably the best option he could have asked for.
but even so— ]
Gonna be seein' a lot of me, then, whether you want to or not.
as for the rest, his smile gets a little more warm. ]
Of course. I'd expect nothing less. [ a little tail wag... ] He speaks so highly of you. I'd be honored to spend more time in your presence.
[ it's a little teasing, but mostly genuine. they're brothers, he's not going to be like rudely locks you out. and past that, he does like both of them, so it's not a struggle. ]
Basilio is good company, too. I was pleased when I found out we share a room.
[ basilio at least has a more realistic view of who he is now, but fidelio's sure he's still painting a much more flattering picture of him than he deserves. embarrassing. ]
But yeah, you're dead lucky, if you ask me. [ maybe not the best phrasing under the circumstances, but that doesn't really register with him. ] You won't find none better than him.
[ at this point i think it's funny if every one of our threads starts with him being unenthusiastic about food so he's at the boardwalk, looking at the fry place judgementally. ]
Seriously, what is the obsession with these things around here?
[ the technology levels in metaphor are so funny ]
We do. There's a particularly noteworthy train called the Astral Express that travels the universe, along the tracks that Akivili left behind. But we also have ones that work similarly to the one here.
Miss Euphausia was stunned by the notion of spaceships and travel among the stars.
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