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I'm really tired. Something threw me off. I don't know why I'm here, but back home it was four in the morning, and I feel like four in the morning. I've managed to be swept away once again without normal (well, they're not really normal, but..) clothes. I'm in my pajamas, Led Zeppelin shirt, boxer shorts, and green slippers I brought for 99 cents. A seat at the bar, green tea, and a chopstick to put up my hair.

Anything I'm leaving out?

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A redheaded young woman peers over and asssays a wave and a quiet "hello."

(ooc: sorry, mail service did not *ping* me)

"Hey."

(ooc: s'alright.)

"What is... in your hair?"

She looks curiously at the chopstick.

My voice is always a little raspy in the morning, but the tea is helping.

"Uh...just a chopstick."

"What is a... chopstick?"

then she remembers her manners.

"I am sorry. I am... new here to human things. My name is Teyfera."

"It's just a thin wooden stick. Usually you used it to eat, there's two of them, but they also hold hair up well. Here's the other. Knock yourself out."

I hand her the other chopstick. They come attached.

"Is fine. Wendy."

"Oh..."

She looks at it and nods, then hands it back.

"Nice to meet you Wendy. I have never seen clothes like that."

Teyfera is wearing a cloak which mostly hides the fact that she wears a mostly see-through set of silken tunic and pants.

"Yeah, well, don't take me as an example for the human race because I'm pretty different then most. But these are just pajamas."

She chuckles.

"I know little of humans, but am trying to learn. I am Irda. "

Her body ripples as a picutre on the tv going wonky and then it shifts... and her skin and hair and eyes are all a startling blue-green color. And the skin looks slightly off, not human.

"Pajamas... I have heard of those."

Hey, there is nothing wrong with a change of skin color. I call it a tan. Maybe her tan's a little green-ish, but whatever.

"Yeah, I usually don't where them outside my apartment, but the bathroom door took me unexpectedly. So...pajamas."

Teyfera nods and shivers back to the more human looking shape.

"Makes sense. Why do you stay though?"

I liked the green.

"Once I'm awake, like exposed to light. I'm awake. Why bother going right back? At least here I can relax, back home I'd be getting ready for my first job of the day, which is a pain in the ass."

"What kind of job? I was an alchemist back home."

She smiles a bit.

"Well, I have four, so pick a number."

I smile.

Teyfera blinks, then nods.

"Ah... 2?"

The smile remains.

"Ok...that would be painting. Apartments, buildings, interiors. Not Bad."

"Hmmm. I have never done that, but I used to help wall the new huts when one would get damaged by a storm."

She shifts slightly smiling, watching this other woman.

"3?"

"Ok..that's salesperson at a novelty store."

"What is a novelty store?"

She settles more, smiling, her eyes turning a darker green.

"Well, it's just a store with a lot of different, unusual things. It's pretty cool."

"Oh... it sounds interesting. "

Teyfera smiles as she shifts into the green again.

"You sound like you lead an interesting life."

Teyfera was rather sheltered.

"Yeah, well the gift of being an outcast."

I smile. Because yeah, now my life is interesting and I'm finally happy. So....

"You are an outcast?"

Then she smiles, biting her lip.

"You have a lovely smile."

"Well, was. I ran away from home as soon as I could. Guess to some I still am, but I don't care."

I shrug.

"Thanks, I guess."

"I dont know much about humans, so... you seem normalish, to me... no offense."

And she smiles still.

"You are welcome. It lights up your face."

I laugh.

"No offense taken."

"So...you?"

"I was an alchemist,a mostly boring job or working with chemicals and magic to make things that the Island needed."

She shares a small smile.

"But I did enjoy it."

"Magic and chemicals. You win. My jobs definately can't compete with that."

"But it was boring!"

She mocks an older man's voice.

"Change this into that. Make this mud into cement. Line up those patterns into vials. Snap it up, Teyfera."

She shakes her head.

"I enjoyed the magic, but... it was mostly just drudge work."

She grins at Wendy.

"I would much rather be at a Novelty store, with all the things!"

"Well, still, it's magic. Although, the novelty store is quite a bit of fun."

Teyfera bites her lip for a moment.

"Would you... like to see some? It isnt very impressive, but I could show you a little?"

She looks uncertain.

"Why not? There not exactly a surplus where I'm from."

Teyfera nods and pulls out a small pouch and gathers a glass of water.

She hums softly for amoment and then simulataneously pours out a stream of water, tosses something like dust from the bag, and speaks a few words in a strange twisty language.

In midair, the dust and water change and shift and become a glass wren, small, but fairly well formed.

Teyfera slumps back, a little sweat on her brow and nods.

"Crafty. I have it? as a souvenier?"

I smile.

She smiles.

"Absolutely. A pretty bird for a pretty woman."

She nods.

"Thanks. I hope you don't mind, I'm off. Job number one which is bike messenger. As much as I want to stay, it's eventually unavoidable. I'll see you around though. Til next time, right?"

I get up, the bird in my hand and walk out the door, back home.

(ooc:thanks for the thread.)

She waves as Wendy goes.

(ooc: anytime!)

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