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"Jealous of me?" Saphi found himself asked of the fish, listening as he explained his mobility issues, "Hrm... I bet if you played up the 'fish out of water' thing you could someone cute to save you... though you might also get pounced by a kitty..." That might go badly, perhaps shifting into a flopping fish just to get sympathy and to get himself saved wasn't really the best of plans now was it? Making a face he said, I have the worst problems with birds... they seem to want nothing else to have a nice, tasty lizard snack whenever I shift. If I could learn some sort of... of... anti-bird magic that would make my day." Though that meant a whole lot of work in looking for such spells, learning them, practicing them, he supposed he could just continue to dodge them instead, right?

He tilted his head to one side in a thoughtful manner, "There are some rather nice places out in the woods that you can go swimming, I can show you sometime if you want. I went to a rather nice stream with this druid I met in the woods not that long ago." He said, tail swishing from side to side, excited just remembering that day since it had so much fun that day! He rather wanted to go out again in hopes of finding that same person. He was a big fan of druids, even it was a biased love since he'd only ever met one of them. It did make him want to see out more of them though if the first one was an indication it might be difficult since they seemed to all live in the woods. At the mention that swimming in the park pond got a person stolen and given to a pet shop naked his eyes got wide, "Wow... that must have been a... strange experience." Worse even then being stolen by birds since the best defense against that was turning back and dragging the birds down with his normal form and size, "Why naked?" He found himself asking, wondering what had happened to Satoshi's pants.

"Eh? Games? Sure! I have a few! And a couple decks of cards too." He said, going over to shelves that were to one side of the room, looking at the mess of things stacked up there, "I figure it wouldn't hurt to play a bit while we eat, then we can concentrate completely on the potion." Satoshi gave them a way to put the work off for a bit so Saphi was all for taking it.

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"Eesh, that sounds unfortunate." He said, feeling a little bad for Satoshi as he explained all the unlucky events that he'd gone through when he tried to fake needing aid when he was in his fish form. That really wasn't going to get him the girls if he got himself dumped into a puddle or just plain having to deal with suffocation, "And I thought I had it bad with all the birds trying to eat me, girls trying to stomp me, and the kids that play way to rough." He was going to concede defeat to the fish boy for real when it came to who had it harder when it came to their alternate form, especially given that nine times out of ten he had fun in his other form, using it to mooch food, get rides around on the backs of rather cool people, and otherwise getting into places he would normally get murdered for entering or thrown out of the moment he was noticed.

When Satoshi explained the reasoning behind why it was that he was kidnapped whilst being naked he gave a slow nod of his head, seeming to better understand. Alright, he was a little confused there for a moment as to what string of events might land Satoshi naked in a pet shop. When it was explained to him in detail it didn't seem nearly as scandalous as it might have first sounded, "Ahhh, I see... I agree, that doesn't sound like much fun. When it comes to kidnapping the worst I've had to deal with is a Witch that was completely certain that I was to be her familiar. I found myself quickly done up with a ribbon around my neck and her calling be Bluebell. Nothing nearly as bad as what you went through though for sure." If it actually counted as being kidnapped he wasn't sure, more like humiliated for a bit before he'd found a chance to escape from her clutches before running like the worst monster out there was nipping at his scaly heels.

When Satoshi picked cards, as well as wanting to play fish, Saphi couldn't help but to laugh a bit, "Playing go fish and you eat goldfish crackers, you are far too awesome." He said as he grabbed up a deck of cards and set about shuffling them as he plopped down on his bed across from Satoshi, deciding that he had to be the most appealing person he'd had on his bed before... then again he was the only one but still, it counted in the lizard's head. As he set to dealing the cards he asked, "You have relatives that are mononoke too? I seem to have been a bit of a random hiccup... I mean my mother can't even cast a single spell and yet here I am." He always did wonder where it came from, both his parents didn't seem to have any idea other then a possible great, great grandfather on his father's side that might have been mononoke if the stories were right. Needless to say it had made growing up more interesting for Saphi and more hectic for his magicless mother, "You can go first since you are my guest."

Saphi rather liked the idea that the two of them made a good team though it seemed that they were best team when it came to slacking off together. Oh well, the lizard was having fun and he was always the sort to put things off so he didn't need all that much encouragement to do so. He figured that Satoshi was likely the same from the looks of it, "Well then we will need to hang out more I think." He said, giving a sage nod as he rearranged his cards to how he would like them, setting one set down as he listened to what the other was saying about all the mononoke in his family. That must be neat instead of being a random fluke like Saphiros felt like some days.

"That's neat... man I wish I had so many mononoke in my family." He said, then gave a swish of his tail as Satoshi explained why he'd ended up here, that he needed to grow into his magic. He gave a bit of a laugh, "I kind of ended up here due to being so determined to follow in my dad's footsteps. A shame that the path is so complicated. Have you seen the things you need to go through just to get even the slightest chance to enter the Reapers? I don't know how my old man became a Blackheart.." He gave a half shrug, wondering if he would actually make it. He found school so boring, put off his assignments, and at times he was pretty certain that he had picked the most difficult path ever known... but his father had been so happy when he seemed to want to follow in his footsteps and he couldn't really back out now just due to being lazy, right?

"Three? Yep! You aren't using any special fish powers to cheat at this, are you?" He asked jokingly as he held the card out to his friend before scanning his hand and asked, "Got any Kings?"

Saphi's tail swished behind him for a moment as Satoshi said that he wasn't sure of his path but that learning magic was the first step, "Yeah... it's that first step that is so difficult, not to mention a little boring." He said, sticking out tongue at the thought of it. He would rather do anything after all but go to class but he knew that it was a necessity. He wasn't going to be learning any magic, powerful or worthy of the Reapers, if he didn't first graduate from school. Until that happened, well he was going to have to continue dragging himself to class and keeping up with his assignments even if it felt rather mind numbing to do so, "Guess we will see one day soon enough what paths we actually end up on." He just hoped whatever he ended up doing would be enough to keep his father happy with him was all. Even if the man was as strict as Hell in most aspects of life it didn't make Saphi love him any less.

A chuckle escaped from the lizard mononoke at the mention of 'special lizard powers' and he nodded, "Alright, I will stop smelling out the cards and which one is which." He said in as serious tone as he could muster up before flicking his tongue out at the other mononoke. Alright, so he couldn't really do that, all the cards smelled the same to him, but it was fun to joke about nevertheless. When it seemed there was no king to be hand he picked up one of them out of the pile, looked it over, and then laughed as he handed it to his fishy friend when the other asked for the eight that he had just picked up, "Lucky you!" He chirped, amused about Satoshi's timing. Looking his cards over closely he asked for a, "Queen if you have one?" He didn't have a king but maybe he'd have the king's wife? He wasn't exactly doing too super well at their current hand but he really didn't mind one way or the other, he was having a lot of fun after all and that was what mattered the most to him.