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It was just a single step, but you don't always take the same path.

Yunno is hard at work with a box of electronics and a series of textbooks. Well, really he's more inside the box of electronics and ducking out to consult The Encyclopedia of Electric Circuits or an apparent High School text Fundamentals of the Mass Effect: a Modern Approach.

This is what leads to a ferret with a wire wrapping tool humming under his breath and occasionally muttering about advanced physics.

Tiny Tag: Yunno Scrya

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Draco doesn't notice the wires much, or dismisses it as more Muggle strangeness.

The ferret on the other hand? Makes him *twitch*, and eye it warily.

Blame bad memories.

Draco has likely had nightmares like this. Ferrets and muggle things together.

Yunno looks up from the book and spots Draco.

"Hello there."

And it talks...

"Hello?" More wary looks.

Sounds like a fairly young boy too. Maybe of age to attend Hogwarts.

"Can I help you with something? My name is Yunno Scrya, Scrya being the family name."

Then he gives a small bow.

"Draco Malfoy... are you usually a ferret?" Can't be an Animagus, or not one from his world since they can't talk except in animal noises in that form.

Yunno wobbles a fore paw.

"It depends really. Being small like this is good for tight work and makes me much harder to hit. Plus it's comfortable."

"Well easier to get away I suppose. My fox form is useful for that."

"More that it's hard to find me to hit," says Yunno, "You can turn into a fox?"

Draco smirked, "Sometimes."

And then does so.

~~Arf could totally take him.~~

"Are you pushing the extra mass into a pocket space or just raising your density and countering it with an anti-gravity effect instead?"

Magi-tech canon. What can you do?

Head tilt, and he then switched back to talk. Plus, being in another form made you think simpler thoughts. Fox thoughts in his case.

"What are you talking about? It's magic."

Yunno is always a librarian and a scholar. It's the family trade. He does, however, facepaw and hops to a chair before switching to human himself. The transition is fairly bright and tinted green.

"Well mine is to, but don't you care about the mechanics? Take my change for example. I use a portion of the cells for each part of my body as a ferret. Then I shift the remainder into a linked subspace pocket until I change back."

"Well we study it too. There's Arithmancy and advanced Transfiguration. Which the latter you must know to do this spell. Many can't."

Draco then blinked, "Subspace? What the Merlin is that?" Well, ever heard of a particle physicist in canon Wizarding World? Yeah, me neither.

Yunno has opinions about Wizarding World magic. Mostly that the potions would be hard to market back home. Little things like ingredient lists on the bottles make things iffy.

"It's- look, think of it as a pocket of reality pinched off from the rest of the universe that I can shift things in and out of. I have the math for it if you're interested in a trade?"

Momiji, who is presently leaning over Yunno's box, is a fan of small, furry things, in general. Small furry things moving this way and that and messing around with wires and reading, though?

"Awww..."

He feels totally justified in this and in the big grin on his face - it's adorable!

Yunno has survived a depressing number of things by being cute and hard to hit. Plus it's great for relaxing and those tight fits when you build something.

"Hello, could you hold this for a moment?" asks Yunno indicating a fairly large piece of plastic with holes punched in it, "I need to get the first part straight before I can connect that one."

Eee, and it talks, too! (Though, admittedly, in Milliways, he actually expects this, by now.) In any case, though, he quite happily holds the plastic, looking between it and the ferret-at-work quite delightedly.

"Okay...uhm, what is it?"

Yunno has his head back inside the box already, so the reply is muffled.

"I'm trying to build the demonstrator they show in the book." The last word is accompanied with a rear foot pointed at the high school text book. "Ah, got you."

That is followed with a series of clicks and snapping noises from inside the box with Yunno.

It takes a great deal of effort for Momiji to keep from moving over to poke his head towards the box - curiosity is not something he's good at restraining - but he stays put where he is, lest he mess anything up. Not that it stops him from shifting up onto his tiptoes so he can see more from his present location.

"What's a demonstrator?" he asks.

"It shows how something works, usually so a group can see it," answers Yunno as he pulls himself back out, "This is one from a different universe than I'm from. I need the board now please."

He reaches out with both front paws.

"Alright." The rabbit-boy hands over the plastic with a still-confused smile. He hasn't a clue what this demonstrator thing is, and he's not sure whether he should feel dumb for not knowing or whether it's just something they don't have, where he's from.

"It looks really complicated."

Yunno the exposition for a large part of his canon. It happens.

"It's not to bad," judges Yunno, "My name is Yunno Scrya, please call me Yunno."

The last phrase is muffled again as he heads back into the box.

"Yunno? Okay! I'm Momiji Sohma." The teen enthuses, moving over to properly look inside the box, now that his hands are free.

"But just Momiji's fine."

It's poorly lit by a green glow and consists mostly of the plastic boards, masses of wire and a wide range of electronic components. That and a couple of crystals that pulse with an odd inner light.

"Good to meet you Momiji," says Yunno after he slides the last connection into place, "Are you doing anything interesting lately?"

Yunno is poor at small talk. Thank goodness he meets most of his friends, the first time anyway, during fights.

"Just school, mostly."

Momiji rubs a hand along the back of his neck, looking mildly apologetic about not having in awesome adventures to recount. But awesome adventures are hard to come by, where he's from, and he's learned that regaling new acquaintances with accounts of shopping trips and games of cops and robbers is often not the best idea.

"It's not really as neat as making your own...demonstrator-thing."

All of Yunno's awesome adventures start or end in hospital visits. It's a little hard to keep the awesome up under those conditions.

"Ah. I've been stuck here for a bit now. Otherwise I wouldn't be tinkering around with this," Yunno stops to think for a moment, "What are you doing at school? I didn't go to a school really, you see."

"...Just school stuff, sort of. Math and English and history and stuff." The blonde offers a small shrug in answer to the question, indicating that, perhaps, he is not the greatest academic the world has ever known.

"Did they not have school for ferrets, in your world?"

Yunno's a bookworm.

"Not for ferrets no, but I'm not always one. I think I'd miss my thumbs a great deal if I could never turn human again," says Yunno, "We, the Scrya clan I mean, move around a lot. I learned most of what I know from home classes or working along side clan members on digs or in a library."

"Ohh...so, you just turn into a ferret? Cool!"

Momiji smiles wide, grabbing a chair and slipping into it with an eager look on his face. It's not every day you meet someone else who turns into a furry mammal, occasionally.

"So, why's your clan move around so much?"

Yunno would shrug, but that looks weird on a ferret. He spreads his forepaws instead.

"We went where the work was. Scryas are well, mostly we work as scholars and researchers. You have to go to new dig sights to find unique artifacts and most libraries keep the really interesting books inside and don't loan them out."

"What's your family like?"

"So, you're all...archaeologists?"

The teen pauses for a second at the question about his family, trying to think of exactly how to phrase it.

"It's really big. And really old, too - we have this huge estate, back home, where a ton of Sohmas live, and then the rest are all sort of spread out across Japan."

"Archeologists, librarians and explorers," says Yunno with a nod.

Then.

"It must be nice sometimes to have everyone close," says Yunno, "I have friends in Japan and we've just sort of all adopted each other."

"Yeah, it's fun. There're always people around you know."

Momiji tilts his head at the ferret thoughtfully, before bringing a hand up and resting it against it.

"Is that where you live? For now, anyway?"

"I did for a while, but lately I've been working at the Infinity Library in the Bureau's headquarters. It's closer to Earth than I can usually get safely, so it's easier to visit that way."

"So...are you from another planet or something?"

Talking, space voyager ferret-people? Some days are just too cool, Momiji thinks.

"Mid-Childa. It's effectively the center of a multi-world group under the Time-Space Administration Bureau. I head the Infinity Library, the central archive."

And nobody filed a freaking thing between when the service was founded and when he was hired, is how he feels most days.

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