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[ Luke : Disney Castle : Throne Room ]

Luke, meanwhile, sat tight in his imaginary bubble, trying not to attract attention to himself. He chortled at the musical "Ha-ha-ha-no," then fell silent once again and devoured more of the incredible edibles while listening to everyone's introductions. He would probably forget most of the names and details being stated sooner or later, but that didn't mean he shouldn't at least try. He repeated names in his mind as they were stated.

Kyle. He was pretty sure he had already heard that name at some point in the past few minutes, but he couldn't remember. Dawn. Sunrise. Easy enough to remember. A wind-dancer, apparently. Wind-dancer. Sounded like a nice name for a Skybax. Song. She was one of his fellow newcomers, along with Feather. From what he gathered, they had all been stranded in the wilderness for the past week, just not all in the same place. She seemed just as surprised to still be alive as the one named Kyle had made himself sound. Apparently they all had a lot in common. The long-haired thirty-something still found it hard to believe that he had survived fighting... them.

He took a few calming breaths.

They're not here. You're safe. You're not being hunted. For once... He zoned back into real life soon enough to hear the one Dawn had used as a pillow announcing her name was Bobbi. While his ever-curious mind wondered whether it was spelled with a y or an i or any combination of letters, because names eternally fascinated him, he knew that would be an easy one to remember as well, because his friend Daniel was widely known as "Bobby" for hilarious reasons. Dammit, Bobby boy, what in the hell? What in the heaven? What in the Earth? Where was your mom? What, are you cursed? Where are you from? Where was your birth? Where were you first? Why weren't you in church? Why is there dirt all on your shirt? Dammit I think that you're going berserk!

He realized that Yuffie was introducing herself while he ran through the song lyrics in his head, and he immediately refrained from singing the chorus to himself just to listen in, even though he still believed she needed no introduction. Then it was Feather's turn. He laughed at the introduction of their summon, though he hadn't been aware that it was a reference to anything. Noelle - that was a pretty easy one as well. It sounded the same - though that didn't necessarily mean it would be spelled the same - as one of his favorite Christmas carols as a kid. It was the only one with religious subject matter that he had been a fan of at a certain age. James. He had already introduced himself, so maybe repetition would help with Luke's memory, but no images came immediately to his mind that he could match with this particular name.

Well, James is kind of nicknamed as Jim or Jimmy sometimes, so there's St. Jimmy... But this guy does not look, sound, or otherwise seem like St. Jimmy. Sooo probably not gonna help. While he sang about being "a son of a b***h and Edgar Allan Poe" in his mind, he realized that his fellow newcomers had already joined in on this circle (or whatever other shape it was) of introducing themselves. While he had already stated his name earlier, it had been before everyone had shown up, so he supposed it was only fair.

"Um... My name is Luke," he said again, louder this time than he had been before, though he refused to stand up. "But you can call me Banshee. I'm the shy quiet loner bookworm person. Strangely enough, I'm also a rambunctious, loud and annoying green ball of energy when I'm in the right mood, or around the right people, or if I'm lowering a few of my millions of protective walls, or if I've had enough caffeine, or if the Sun is in Capricorn, or if you draw the circle with the right kind of blood, or if I'm traveling through Zero Space, et cetera, et cetera..." He realized that he had already spoken more than he had intended, and his cheeks turned pink. He purposefully shook his head from side to side, causing his hair to cover a little more of his face than it already had been, and adjusted his glasses as he stared down at the eggs on his plate. "I'm random. And I read everything. And I love music. That is all... Stick a fork in me, I'm done. And with that, the egg-devouring continued.

[ Luke : Disney Castle : Throne Room ]

"Nopers," Luke responded to Steven's question with the faintest of grins after swallowing an over-easy egg and hydrating with his nearby glass of orange juice. "I was just trying to be funny. Or silly. One of those. I think I might've overdone it with the blood summoning and the Z-Space, but..." He shrugged and trailed off for a moment, staring blankly out into space. About three seconds later, his small smile returned, and he breathed in. "I was born in March. Pisces. I am a fish. I am a fish, I am a fish, and I need water," he concluded his statement by singing part of the bridge of one of his favorite songs. "How about yours? Um, zodiac, I mean."

[ Luke : Disney Castle : Throne Room ]

"That's awesome," the brown-haired man said, a bit louder than he had been speaking, his smile growing a bit. He calmed down his volume before continuing. "I'm a Tiger. I think the element is fire? Not sure. I don't know what my moon sign is, though now I'm curious... No internet to look it up, though." He let out a short chuckle. Back on Earth, he would have immediately jumped to his laptop and started tab-surfing like there was no tomorrow, not only looking up what his moon sign was, but also researching every little thing he could about moon signs. That was one of his biggest hobbies and time-wasters: researching everything.

Not anymore, though. Lately, he had had no time to waste on anything. Most of what he had been doing, was running. That, and blasting back those yellow-eyed monstrosities with water and fire and razor-sharp pine needles. More calming breaths...

Breathe deep, seek peace...

This morning was the first time he could remember spending so long in one place without being hunted.

"I guess life travels at a different pace without a daily dose of web-surfing."

[ Feather : Disney : Throne Room ]

Horoscopes and zodiac talk is fun, fun is nice.

" I will not fear you, hear me rawr!"

Feather 'rawr'ed at Bobbi which sounds more like the sound of "ahwur".

"I'm a Leo, like Kyla. Funny enough our birthdays are on the same week, really close to each other. Oh you are a tiger like her too?"

Feather nudged Kyla slightly in light jest.

"I'm a doge, such doge, much wow."

Mini Doom Cat Bus Train now prowls back on the table and attempts to swat at the moving slice of bacon that Bobbi waved.

[Kyla: Disney: The Room]


She wasn’t entirely sure words fell short for such long a spell, perhaps her emotional outburst spent the last voucher for expression for a time. She had settled in beside Louis with feather on the other side and let the introductions commence whilst her anxious slowly cooled away with the flush on her face.
She nibbled on her fruits, and crunched her bacon, sipped her tea, and resisted the rude habit she possessed to open a book at the dinner table-
She just made the mental note to take the newcomers ‘sketched mug shots’ later when they dispersed.

She felt more interested in things unsaid- noting the quiet from where Joseph sat and looked down at her own plate, thinking, as the topic slid into comparisons to zodiac signs. There she realized she was one of two tigers and lions at the table.


Unlike Luke, she knew her moon sign- apparently it wasn’t that nice.
Whilst it understood secrets, could leave impressions on people, it made her enjoy strong concentrated aspects in life if twisted improperly-

It was…me – right now.

Three. No there were three cats at the table- wait. What?

How did she miss that? Feather was the tiger, Luke was the lion- but.

“We-“ the line of association passed by her mind’s eye, the summer wind and dark sky under millions of stars two people looking up on the shoreline at stars that fall and-
“- Really?”
There it was- and if Jenny was still open for the echos of everyone’s song there was a grinding halt like gears catching on each other again as the line of mental dialogue stopped- went silent and kept going on as usual. Propounded by a tight thump in her chest she visibly winced. She had realized she look at Feather with such an incredulous look, her brow lifted in an awe look she didn’t know what she was looking at.
Her moms student had a very unusual investment in the details aligning themselves, it was surprising. Maybe she hadn’t paid very much attention, maybe Mom spoke about her often to this girl- but that didn’t really make much sense. After all, why would she talk about her?
“…um..” she blinked, swallowed, and words sticking she took a cup of tea and sipped it down. Tried again.
She wanted to ask so much-

‘ why are you saying that? What does it matter? Why are you acting so friendly? How much did my mother talk to you about me? Why would she talk about me? Why would she talk about me to you? …. Who are you??? God why do- es my..chest…HURT!?’

“ I see, a Dog. That’s a good combination. I wonder if they have such things in this world like that- if that even matters or has any impact in some sense. ..maybe I can seeif there’s a book in there about that.” She mumbled, looking at the one she brought in yearningly.
All this time she hadn’t really introduced herself- she didn’t feel like she wanted to.

Yes I do!

She was too embarrassed,-

Who cares?! They should know! Right? You can’t become a team unless they get some info, break the ice, talk to them- everyone is vunerable right now. Just chat, enjoy breakfast.

“Scorpio. Her Moon is the Scorpio- and I'm Carbuncle!” As if they didn't alreayd know, but Carbuncle obliged, and threw once again a life line. A drop of information it was both a signal to those who understood what the moon Scorpio meant, and right now.. it was the pitiful pictomancer to a T!
She took another sip of her tea, then ruffled the summons fuzzy little head. "... yes this is my impish partner Carbuncle. Nice to meet you all, Luke, Song, S-steven, I...err.. " again words were falling short. Man she sucked at this.

{Bobbi & Co. .:. Disney Castle .:. Throne Room}

"'Scuse you, no, my bacon," Bobbi said to Bus Cat, taking the delicious breakfast meat out of reach of the summon. And to prove it was hers, she took a healthy bite of the bacon, chewing slowly and making appreciative noises to tease the cat. "Mmmm, yummy, not for semi-corporeal critters."

She smiled as Kyla and Dani made their introductions, and wanted to say something about Kyla's Scorpio moon sign and how it matched with Tricia's Scorpio sun sign, but she got distracted by Dani asking if anyone had questions.

"Yes!" the archer exclaimed, slapping her hand on a free spot of the table for no other reason than to make a loud noise. She aimed a finger and a super serious look at Dani, and asked with a perfectly sober face and tone, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

OoC: I love that my predictive text wrote that question for me XD

Dawn : Disney Castle : Throne Room]

Dawn turned her head when the conversation turned to zodiacs of everyone at the table. She blinked over at Steven who had started it and tilted her head. One of the hobbies that she had when she was younger involved learning the meaning of different zodiac symbols. Along with the meaning of names. It was something she always found fascinating.

"If it helps at all I am just bubbling with emotion." she chimed in, "I born under Virgo. Moon sign is Aquarius. Chinese I am a Rabbit. Celtic makes me a Swan. So all together I am the Water-bearing virgin rabbit with wings."

She continued with a snort, "I guess that explains a lot about me. I am doomed to be over emotional."

After she finished she let out a small sigh then returned to her food.