Late Morning 3/5

[sleepingknight]

[Retrospec]

[The post is by one Lily, their icon simply a picture of a red dragon lady crinum.]

Ok so

The good news is I didn't turn into an ant

Actually I have wings now?? They just kind of popped out of nowhere.

So does anyone have tips for flying/not knocking everything over trying to walk around the house? I don't want to have to buy more monitors...

[Action - Park, Evening]

[And, once it's darker out, a small figure heads out to the park wrapped up in a warm coat and a beanie over her long hair - long purple hair, though with the dark, it may be more difficult to catch the glint of color.

Casting a glance around to make sure no one's around (that she can see), Yuuki takes a breath and stretches, a pair of wings appearing from her back - and yet, mysteriously, outside of her clothes. Sparkles glimmer faintly in the air, but they disappear quickly as they're shed from the transluscent wings.]

Oookay. How do you do this?

Comments

[thesettingsun]

[It's not a fun story!]

It's about as hard as you'd expect getting new limbs all of a sudden. Probably you're going to move them on accident more than intentionally at first, but eventually you'll figure out what it is you're doing on accident so that you can do it on purpose.

It's really hard to explain.

[sleepingknight]

Great

[There's a bit of silence, presumably while she's trying to figure out how these things work. And then:]

Whoa, they can disappear!

[thesettingsun]

That's handy, maybe you'll knock over less stuff in grocery stores than I did.

[sleepingknight]

[There's another pause. She's... she's figuring some stuff out.]

It looks like they come out if I stretch and they disappear if I move my shoulders a certain way.

That's handy!

[This might actually be less bad than originally expected!]

[thesettingsun]

Nice! You're doing way better than I did, I'm jealous.

[sleepingknight]

Looks like I was lucky!

I still have no idea how to move them though. It's so weird! They're just like... magic wings

[thesettingsun]

They're probably prettier than mine, I was stuck with bat wings.

[sleepingknight]

These look kind of bat wingish

But sparkly and see-through?

Also, why did you have bat wings?

[thesettingsun]

Turned into a demon last October. 0/10, would not recommend.

[sleepingknight]

Oh yikes

But it was just a temporary thing? Because of Vanderwheele

[thesettingsun]

Just temporary, thank god. If I still had to deal with that I don't know anyone would survive.

[sleepingknight]

Did it also make you like, annoying or something?

[Annoying winged demon guy!!]

[thesettingsun]

Depends, do you consider someone losing all sense of morals and repeatedly attempting murder to be annoying?

[sleepingknight]

Oh

Okay, that one's scary

[thesettingsun]

Yeah.

The physical stuff can be bad, but the mental stuff is always going to be worse.

[sleepingknight]

And that's why everyone's so worried about losing themselves, huh?

Part of it at least.

[thesettingsun]

Part of it. Part of it's just that not everybody's past self was a good person.

[sleepingknight]

I still don't remember too much about my past self... but I don't think she was bad, at least.

I got lucky there too

[thesettingsun]

Past me was a dick.

[sleepingknight]

Yikes

Like how?

[thesettingsun]

He cheated on his wife, that's one thing.

[sleepingknight]

That's awful!

[thesettingsun]

Isn't it? And he sent his teacher a six foot long letter begging for a literary prize. Who does that?

[sleepingknight]

omg

No offense to you right now? But that just sound super desperate

[thesettingsun]

I will never take offense at throwing shade at Dazai. Fuck that guy.