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[whatsupcroc]

Okay, I know things weren't going well, but as far as solutions go this really doesn't count as one. We all knew it was dangerous, and we all knew it was necessary. Not saying if it paid off or not is cold!

You're also banking on the fact I was trying to demorph already when I trip -- trip! -- or fall or not have a grand old time getting through the window into the Cite Gazette place, so that when the extra, on top of trying not to die pain that's my soul getting separated from me hits? I finish demorphing before I pass out.

If I end up a green scaled paraplegic I am blaming you for all the really weird hospitals that I'll be ending up in. And then we're going bobsledding. I'm pretty sure a crocodile-girl who can't walk can still go bobsledding.

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[lambda_driver]

Losing consciousness is bad for your health. You must try to stay awake as long as possible.

[whatsupcroc]

You're probably right. I'm going to have to even if I have no choide. Ha! It'll be [ not exactly okay ] no problem!

[ It's going to be a near thing whoops ]

[lambda_driver]

Of course. Also, please don't give up hope if you end up green-scaled and paraplegic. Medical science is improving every day. Surely you'll be able to walk again!

[whatsupcroc]

[ She kind of likes you. You're funny, random stranger. ]

You might just not believe it, but the green scaled part might be the more difficult to handle if it comes down to it. Then again I might have a shoe-in for the circus. That might be kind of exciting.

[ Or freakshow-ish. ]

Medical science will get there sooner or later, but in the meantime, who said anything about giving up hope?

[ She also figures they'll be able to fix spinal injuries before they figure out congenital defects, but hey, a step forward is a step forward. Eliminating congenital defects going forward would be pretty sweet, too. ]

[bindsthedead]

Paraplegic? You... you can't walk?

From what I've heard, you might be able to return to your own world.

[whatsupcroc]

[ Really, if she had the luxury of lying again she might have been tempted, but it'd be pretty self evident on arriving in the hospital itself. ]

No, I can't walk, but I can roll. With a little musical accompaniment, I might move on up to rock and roll.

[ She grins, less at the joke and more at the possibility of returning. ]

With the window open, any one of us can go flying home. So I guess I don't have to wait on this lady. [ General fourth-wall gesture at player. ] I'll get back and figure out what happened on my own, right? Piece of cake.

[bindsthedead]

[Sabriel smiles back.]

Hopefully it will be that simple.

[whatsupcroc]

If it isn't, then we'll deal with that, too! Or I will. Need to check in on all my friends one way or another, and I don't see any of them falling through worm-holes or whatever these windows really are. What about you? You planning on getting back out and home as soon as you can?

[payback]

What's morphing?

[whatsupcroc]

Something pretty disgusting -- and cool! -- to watch.

[ Deliberate obtuseness for a moment GO ]

[payback]

[Noted. B(]

Yes, and what else?

[whatsupcroc]

[ Oh the lies she could get into, pending this weren't the safe fourthwall space it is. 8Db ]

Dangerous! And entirely necessary in a war against small alien slugs from outer space. [ She holds up one hand, using fingers to illustrate a length of about five inches. ] It's being able to turn into any animal whose DNA you've absorbed.

[governorkang]

So there's more of you.

[Carefully neutral! He knows how paranoid the Animorphs are, and he's not all that impressed with most of them, especially Marco.]

[whatsupcroc]

What, people in wheelchairs?

[ She looks around, eyes "wide," hand coming up to move over her mouth. She figures it isn't what he's stating, but hey. ]

Say it isn't so!

[ Her hand lowers, and she's got something of a smile on her face. ]

[governorkang]

[He smiles, quirking an eyebrow ridge in amusement.]

Animorphs. I know some of the others.

[whatsupcroc]

The good know, or the bad know? Because if it's the bad know, I have no idea what you're talking about mister.

[ If she is looking at him with a certain sparkle of interest in her eyes, largely because he's pretty large, definitely alien to her, and not Hork-Bajir. ]

[thesidekickgetsit]

Wait, morphing into something green and scaled?

Not that I don't appreciate bobsledding, but that doesn't sound like one of ours, and you might want to get that checked out.

[whatsupcroc]

Like one of yours?

[ Collette looks over at Monroe, fighting back the urge to laugh. Yeah, she's sure being stuck mid-morph would be something doctors could handle.

You know, on a scale of one to not happening. ]

[thesidekickgetsit]

[Sorry, social protocol doesn't provide a script for someone saying 'I'm turning green and scaly'. Monroe's just doing what he can.]

Well, generally we're more Occidental sorts of creatures. Not many crocodiles downing black forest cake in Vienna, you know?

[whatsupcroc]

[ It really should, social protocol should have an entire book written on this found on the shelf just to the right of "good table manners for goats and octopi" ]

I'm sure the crocodiles really wish they had the chance. Or probably not, if the black forest cake wasn't changed into something like shepherd's pie. Ooh, maybe good old hotdogs. Corndogs?

[sixthanimorph]

[All the suspicion. Who knows if you're with them or what.]

You're a morpher? I thought I knew them all but I don't know you.

[whatsupcroc]

[ Back up there, buck-o, she has no idea who you are either. Seriously, who are you alskfd (oh David) ]

I guess that makes two of us, because I don't know who you are either.

[ The suspicion makes her more reserved with the whole "hey do an intro" thing but, uh... ]

I'm Collette. [ Good luck tracking that down. Sob. ] Who're you?

[sixthanimorph]

The name's... Jake.

[ It's a litmus test, this particular choice of aliases. If she knows the real Jake, she'll have something to say to that.]

How'd you get the morphing power, Collette?

[gorillawarfare]

It'd bring out your eyes?

[whatsupcroc]

[ Oh look someone she actually recognizes! Which feels oddly backward by now but hey, good to have turnaround and not just "oh it's one of you morpher people" from people she's never met. ]

They'd be my selling feature! It'll help people look right past the overbite.

[ Which she demonstrates with her hands, roughly emulating the jaws of a crocodile. ]