[Closed] Nature sibs have some shenanigans

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Who: Tanyuu and Ginko
Where: Weedhaus (Trailer #13)
When: S1:D32, early morning
What: Waking up to new changes is always interesting


Tanyuu expects the morning to begin like any other, and for the most part it does. She wakes up warm and very toasty under her blankets, something she's become more and more fond of despite (somehow) still being very much warm-blooded, and yawns and stretches before slithering her winding way out of bed. Her moss is itching a little bit, and she brushes at it with one purple skinned hand--

Which wasn't that color yesterday. Um.

Tanyuu pauses and frowns at her arm, noting that it's not just the skin color that's changed--there's a darker pattern there too, that she would think was fae marks if not for the shape, all simple lines bent at right angles, and ending in small circles.

"Ginko? Do you have any idea what this...um."

She stops in her motion to turn around, all six eyes fixed on what is definitely a hoof sticking off the edge of Ginko's bunk.

This is going to be an interesting morning.

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"Hh?" Ginko rubs at his face with one hand and starts to sit up. As always, it takes him a little longer to really wake up than to be able to move around, so it takes a few seconds before he actually processes the changes to Tanyuu's appearance.

"--Oh. That's, uh. New."

No, he hasn't noticed his legs yet.

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Ginko's slow wake-up process is nothing new, but today it really needs to be sped up a bit.

"As is that." Tanyuu reaches up and taps Ginko's hoof delicately, careful to not get the long fur there caught on her claws. "Unless there's something you haven't been telling me lately."

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His gaze wanders down to the hoof Tanyuu tapped, and stays there.

"--Shit."

So, yes, this is definitely new. He swings his legs off the side of the bed, then pulls one knee up to his chest so he can examine the hoof.

"This'll probably take some getting used to..." After a moment, he glances up and frowns at the changes to Tanyuu's skin. "...What about you? Do those marks... I don't know, feel weird or anything?"

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She circles around to back away and give Ginko a bit of room. "I suppose that answers that. Not sore or anything, are they?"

At his question she runs the pad of a finger over the marks, frowning and shaking her head. "No, they don't feel like anything. Just a marking as far as I can tell. ...almost seem like fae marks if not for the shape, honestly."

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"Nope. Can't feel my toes, though." He's hilarious.

Ginko nods thoughtfully, lifting up his pillow to reach under it. He's been awake for about thirty seconds, seems like a good time to start smoking. "Pretty strange... at least they don't hurt. Guess they're just kind of there, like my scales. ...But not actually scales, I take it."

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Tanyuu wrinkles her nose, and levitates Ginko's pillow up to smack the back of his head with it. "Ha ha, you're very clever. I suppose I'll be fetching breakfast for us this morning."

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He snorts and rubs at his head. "You might not need to. I mean, I'm lucky enough that I've still got legs, so I may be able to go."

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She cocks an eyebrow, all six eyes fixed on him with a deadpan stare. "You say before having even put a single hoof onto the floor. We've both seen people adjusting to this before, you're going to look like a new-born deer."

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"Well, yeah, I know I'm gonna have trouble balancing but that doesn't mean--"

As he starts, he finally goes to actually get out of bed and stand on the floor with his own two... hooves.

The moment he tries to put any weight on them, one buckles while the other slides out from under him, leaving him keeping himself from just falling flat on the ground only by way of keeping his hands planted on his bed.

"...It doesn't mean I can't try and go to work."

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Tanyuu jumps and rears back when Ginko's feet fly out from under him. Then she...stares, for several long moments, before she puts her hand over her face and lets out a long, drawn out sigh.

"No, no, you are not. Not until you can walk up and down the trailer while carrying ten pounds, at least." That seems like a deceptively simple enough requirement to keep him home for now.

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"What? I'm not doing that." He scowls and pushes himself upright, his legs wobbling a little as he tries to balance. "Look, I just gotta get my balance, then I can go to work."

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She parts her fingers enough to cast him an unamused glare. "Ginko, your job requires heavy lifting. If you can't carry that much, how are you going to get anything done today?"

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"We'll find out when I get there. Walking over should be enough practice, and I can work on lifting stuff once I'm at the menagerie."

Sounds simple enough to him.