Still fumbling with her and what to do.

[twoworlds]

Listen, you----you.

I know you've got a ton to think about and work with but really, I can't---I can't honestly say yes to any of this! You're really letting this...idea, inkling get to you!

Honestly, I just think you should think it through a little more, without all the petty excuses and flimflam. You've got other....older, more experienced, better voiced people that you could play with! Besides, you made a promise, didn't you?

Ah, you did, and you wouldn't want to go back on it. Really, what progress have you to show?

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[ex_evilly919]

[ And so the small girl points . ]

What are you doing, silly? Are you talking to yourself?
Or are you talking to your munny~mun~mun?

[twoworlds]

Oh---my mun, of course, who else would I be talking to?

Who are you?

[gamey]

[Flimflam? The lady is good in his books so far.]

Sounds like you're in quite the tight spot.

[twoworlds]

Certainly, I mean, I can't really complain at all about the whole being out and about, but it's really, too much!

[ Going out on a limb here to say she's encountered the talking, wild animals before. But an exploring artist all the same. ]

...Those are some lovely colors, if I may, where are you from?

[gamey]

[Ooh, compliments? Why yes, yes! Hornbills are beautiful, and not at all like dinosaurs like the pictures on this "Enter-net" show.]

Me? Why, I'm from the Pride Lands in Africa, madam! And you?

[twoworlds]

[ See Jane, see Jane run geek out. Where'd she get that scratchpad? ]

Well, I'm from just North of London, but having been to Africa, I've never seen a bird like you before.

[gamey]

[Hammerspace. That's where all the things come from, when they come from nowhere, they come from Hammerspace.]

Oh, you've been to Africa, truly? [This bird isn't at all carrying an English accent, oh no sir.] How did you like it?

[twoworlds]

[ I like how you think! ]

Yes! Yes, I loved it, it was fantastic, I couldn't possibly get enough of it. In fact, I was quite disappointed my mun here picked me up, or I'd still be there. I went to study gorillas, but when you can't exactly find them, there's plenty more to appreciate!

Though I'm probably sure you knew that already, didn't you?

[gamey]

[Zazu is not so knowledgeable about gorillas, considering they're more jungle creatures, but he is the majordomo! He knows enough!]

You were in the jungle? Did you ever happen to visit the plains? Sprawling grassland in some parts, scorching desert, the jungles...many kinds of lands in Africa!

[twoworlds]

[ She sort of huffs, tossing a stray lock of fringe away from her forehead. ]

I wish. We'd only been there a few days before I'd been picked up. I don't think we'd ever have the time to move that far inland, only the coastline, and about a mile or so inward.

Were they not so ferocious, I'd have liked to study some lions myself.

[gamey]

[He pulls his wing out, feather fingers feeling against his beak as a man rubbing his chin would.]

Ah yes, lions can be so, but...unless provoked, there is not much of a reason for attack, yes?

[twoworlds]

[ Hold that pose, Zazu, she's scribbling as fast as she possibly can. ]

That's where it gets tricky though, we're not exactly sure what will or won't provoke them.

Though I'm sure you could say the same for gorillas as well, I suppose.

[gamey]

[Once he notices, about now, he totally does! Dark bushy eyebrows give him a thoughtful appearance...clearly this is one important bird.]

Or any others, for that matter. A hippo with a hurt ear is something I'd rather not deal with above a great deal of many other things involving carnivores.

[twoworlds]

Heavens no, me neither.

[ She stifles a chuckle, utterly amused at his pose. This one would be one for the books, she was sure. Another thought occurs and she has to try even harder to keep from laughing. ]

In fact, I do believe the same rule could even be applied to our guide. Not enough sleep and the man's almost unbearable.

[gamey]

You have a guide? [Oh, think, Zazu! That was silly!] I mean, of course you have a guide, having just arrived and all. I've never seen a human before placed here, so perhaps you would not have visited an area like the Pride Lands.

[twoworlds]

No, i don't suppose I've heard of it either, it's out in the plains, then? Like you asked?

He's not so much a guide rather than, ah, a man with a gun. He's done the whole Africa expedition before, but to my understanding, not near the coastlines, or anywhere near where we've been staying, really.

He's a bit of a brute, if you ask me.

[gamey]

[ . . . ]

A...gun, you say? What is that supposed to mean?

[Does a gun help make a man a brute?]

best thread, btw.

[twoworlds]

[ To explain, or not to explain. Well, he seems like quite the well versed bird. Might as well. ]

Ah, it's----well, it's a weapon, kind of. A weapon for self defense, I like to think, but some men like to carry them for sport, which I find to be silly and not at all attractive to my liking, at least. But back to the point, it's---oh goodness, here, let's try this instead.

[ Better off just drawing one. Let her skip a few pages back in her scratchpad, and doodle the basic shotgun. ]

Here we go. His looks a bit like that, and when you pull this little trigger here, the mechanism inside hits a small, explosive bullet, and launches it out the end. And it's going quite fast, so fast it'll go right through you.

I love it, too! :D

[gamey]

[Zazu takes that as a sign that he can move from his position, moving enough to hop his feet a bit and bring his wings in to look it all over. Bushy eyebrows furrow at the explanation.]

Go right through you? But what need would there be for something so destructive, and what do you mean by "sport"?

[He knows predators; he works with them. But they do not hunt for trophy, of course.]

:DDDD

[twoworlds]

Well, when it's hunt or be hunted, it's to keep yourself from being the prey. That's why we have him, our guide, in fact. After all, me against a full grown leopard, we all know who would win that one.

[ How to put this delicately? To a bird? ]

It's, ah, some men like to shoot things, targets, animals, et cetera because they find it...fun? They'd call it sporting instead of "fun", all in all, I find it barbaric.

...and then Phil Collins is playing on my iTunes

[gamey]

[Let him process that, madam, give him a moment. . . |

Realization dawns in bird eyes, but it's quickly covered up by him rubbing his beak again as he mutters quietly:]

Seems the leopards are in a bit of a spot.

Why is Michel here? Why ISN'T Michel here?

[captaindeath]

I sorta feel like I came in halfway through the movie...

You lost me.

[twoworlds]

Oh? I-I'm sorry? I don't understand.

[machinemuzik]

Muns aren't very good at keeping promises.

[have a rather irritated-looking robot.]