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Hikito flashed a toothy smile as soon as he heard the voice. Good, someone was in here. Though he would have liked a chance to explore the room without any of the others in there. There were bound to be a few neat hide-y holes he could stash secret stuff in. "I'm Hikito! Hikito Kanti," he replied promptly. "I'm moving in here. Are you the only other nightmare in here, or are there more of you?" The question spilled out as he wandered over to her area. "This is Altair, he's one of my newer familiars." That was as much introduction he gave for the revenant before he gently set him down so the small thing could explore.

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"Oh wow, they paired me with someone in an empty room?" Hikito exclaimed quietly in disbelief. Gwen must be a new freshling if there weren't any other nightmares in the room with her. His grin brightened a few levels at the thought. That meant that he could claim as much space as he wanted . . . for now anyway. "Both," was his simple reply to her question. "Geists don't have tails and horns do they?" he pointed out with another toothy grin, waving his tail pointedly. He felt a twinge of something when she said she was doing a study on mutants. He was a nightmare, just like her, not some circus freak.

Altair had wandered around, peering curiously into any nook and cranny they could get into as soon as Hikito had released them. "Altair?" he questioned, turning to watch the clumsy familiar. As soon as his eyes settled on it, it tripped over its own feet, falling to the floor with a dull thud. "He's very clumsy, but he likes to explore new rooms and most of the time he gets stuck odd places if I don't keep a close watch on him." The freshling told her all of this with a shrug. As if to prove his point, Altair managed to get himself wedged halfway under the other bed. With a put-upon sigh, the hybrid scrambled over to free him, placing his plush on the top of the bed so he could use both hands. "Do you have any familiars? Cuz' I've got like three more that'll be joining Altair later. My caretaker didn't want me to bring them all at once without any of their toys or food or anything first. Altair wouldn't let me go alone though, so he got to come." The familiar, now freed, proceeded to continue trying to scramble under the bed to see if there was anything interesting under it.

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"The only thing strange about me is my teeth," he said, giving her a bright smile to show the sharp fangs. Hikito shrugged at the talk of a geist with wings. How was he suppose to know how these mutations worked out. He knew what he was, for the most part, and that was good enough for him. His mothers had assured him that the only thing different about him was his teeth.

"You're not scared of familiars, are you?" he pulled Altair out from under the bed. The fluffy pet snuggled into him, and he carried it over to Gwen. "Like nezubats or pumpkas?" His other familiars had scared his last roommates a bit and he totally hadn't taken advantage of that for a couple of his pranks.


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"Oh. . . good," Hikito was momentarily upset at that. He could probably still prank her with a couple of his pets, though. His nezubat was especially prone to trying to bring home more friends. "Strange, spechial, there is no difference between the two. Both mean something different than 'normal.'" The hybrid heaved up the familiar again before burying his fingers in his fur and wandering closer. "That's not really anything better, or worse, than other nightmares." He spoke as he meandered around her, glancing over all the papers she had about her. She had a lot of notes on this type of stuff. At least, it looked like she did. What did she do, go around taking notes on mutants? That was. . . kinda weird. "I clean up after my pets!" he exclaimed, mildly offended she would accuse him of not.

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"Strange, spechial, it's all the same for saying somebody is different than you," Hikito explained. Saying someone was strange or special just meant that someone looked at you different from everyone else. Hefting Altair up a little more, he reached into her notes to flip through some of them. Her handwriting was much different from his. Maybe it was because he was left handed? Dropping the handful of notes he'd looked through, he looked at her again.

"I'unno, how could they be important when I'm older? Right now all they do is give me a lispch. . and help me take bites out of things." Hikito gave her a sharp-toothed grin, snapping a couple times to prove it. He kind of shrugged about her friend. He didn't know her, so he couldn't really say if she was better or worse or the same as everyone else. "I'm eight! And I don't like cleaning, but the caretakers said that if I wanted to keep my pets I had to tidy up after them." He stuck his tongue right back out at her. Then he turned around and pattered back to the bed in one corner, throwing himself on top of it.

"This is my bed, I've decided!" he declared, dropping Altair on top of it. The clumsy familiar immediately started exploring, sniffing the mattress. Hikito watched as it almost fell of the bed a couple times, diving after it to save it. After some time of that, the familiar curled up near the top of the bed, looking for all the word as if it'd gone to sleep.

"Look, Altair approves! It's settled. I'm going to get the rest of my pets and their stuff, so you watch him. He's sleeping so it'll be easy, promise!" Without really giving her a chance to decline, Hikito leapt from the bed and scrambled to the door. There would be more opportunities to talk later, for now, he had to figure out what was the best way to prank the litch without her going to a caretaker over it.

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