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[braveomaticaya]

It's fairly commonplace for new visitors to Milliways to enter and undergo physical changes; such is what happens to Tsu'tey the minute he ducks through what was supposed to be just another leaf-blocked space between two trees and turned into...something entirely different.

Thus the roughly seven-foot-tall semi-humanoid alien with striated blue skin and a leonine, expressive face that's standing in the doorway with his tail waving around his ankles.

[tiny alien tag: Tsu'tey]

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[hallelujahpilot]

- Fuck.

Trudy notes the size difference, but she also notes the rapidly moving tail, and the fact that his ears are pinned back against his skull and fuck, fuck, fuck.

(she's off-duty, dammit)

Trudy (thanking her lucky stars that she hadn't gone upstairs to change out of her flightsuit) scrambles to her feet and moves over.

"Tsu'tey te Rongloa Atey'itan," she says, stopping a safe distance from him. "Oel ngati kameie." Her accent is pretty damn good, the execution of the gesture flawless.

Now, just what she's going to do when he sees that she's not wearing her mask...and that she's taller...

[braveomaticaya]

As it turns out, just...keep staring. He hadn't noticed the being smaller until one of the humans stood up and came closer--and that on top of this place definitely not being what he was expecting to walk into means those ears aren't likely to come back out to normal anytime soon.

Trudy, he remembers, is the human's name. And he greets her the same way she had him, with an elegant gesture and the same words. "Where...am I?" he asks, translation fields taking over his voice.

[hallelujahpilot]

Carl? Had better be around. Because after this, she damn well deserves some boyfriend-time.

"Milliways," she says, evenly. "It's...Can you see the door behind you?"

[braveomaticaya]

"Milliways," he repeats, questioning. His tail quiets some, body language relaxing minutely. "And...yes?" Tsu'tey turns to look at the door, and turns back. "Should it not be there?"

[hallelujahpilot]

"No. I mean." She takes a deep breath and links her hands behind her back. "Milliways is not on Pandora. It's in its own place, and it has been known to keep people here for a time. Not everyone, it has never locked me here."

[braveomaticaya]

"No, there is a door," he says. "Very much like the one at your Doctor Augustine's school. Can you not see it?" Tsu'tey isn't fully versed on the way humans work, really, but he supposes it works relatively like his own eyes do.

"I was on Pandora...just now," he says, turning again with his tail lashing behind him, narrowly not whacking into a table.

[hallelujahpilot]

"I see it," she says, a little wry. "I changed what I was going to say mid-sentence." Translation fields are not perfect - but in any case, he's a kid who is far from home.

"Yes, you were. And you can go straight back home, if you go through the door."

[braveomaticaya]

He listens, and nods. Not being on Pandora is throwing him for a bit of a loop--it feels different, literally, what with the gravity being off and him being smaller, or her being larger.

Tsu'tey almost considers going back home, truth be told, but something makes him stay in this strange environment, clearly more suited for the humans than his people. "It is...alright if I do not?" This might be like their base of operations on Pandora, all but forbidden to his kind.

[basic_powers]

...whoa.

Seriously. Whoa. That is one big semi-humanoid alien that just walked in, and it's got glowing strations in the blue fur/skin.

See there's all kinds of advantages to learning to eat your dinner in the rafters here. Tyler has a great vantage point on the Door, and it's unlikely that most of the new comers could possibly reach him up here.

Most of them.

He might be backing up a bit from this fellow though, because there are ears going back and tail that is swatting back and forth in curves. He's only seen that behavior in annoyed or startled cats, and them suckers got bite and reach.

So there might be movement above, and a little blonde boy keeping one eye on the big blue kitty while writing in a little notebook.

[braveomaticaya]

Tsu'tey starts once at seeing the tiny Skyperson up in the rafters, backing up a step--he's as surprised to see Tyler as Tyler is to see him.

"You are a human," he says, translation field taking over since almost no one would really understand his speech otherwise. "What are you doing up there?"

[basic_powers]

...Okay, big blue kitty speaks eng- oh wait, translation field, considering he understood the fuedal era giant humanoid rabbit way back when.

"Watching. And eating dinner."

A small dish near his side is a clear indication that this tiny skyperson's not lying.

Much.

[braveomaticaya]

"What do you eat?"

He knows the Avatar drivers eat Na'vi cuisine when they're in the village, but outside of that, back in the base from which their minds are grounded, he has no idea.

[basic_powers]

...Seriously?

The big blue kitty wants to know what he had for dinner?

...Well heck, this'll be something for one of the Notebooks.

"...pasta...some tentacles..brocolli..I'll bring some down to show you." He starts tucking things away up onto the rafter, and finding a spot near the wall to climb down with the edge of the bowl stuck into his mouth.

As he holds out the bowl, the big guy can probably see the green bush and stalk things, brown-red meaty things, and odd tan-spiral things in some kind of white stew sauce.

[braveomaticaya]

He sees them. It looks very little like what they eat at his home, and he's not very sold on the smell, tilting his head away before his eyes start to water.

"You are good at the traversing," he murmurs, dropping into a crouch so he's not so much towering over the child. "Not many of the humans are, where...where I came in from. My home."

[basic_powers]

Well, he's not going to have to worry about the smell much, Tyler'll just take his food and set it up on the rafter he climbed down from, so the waitrats don't carry it off as dirty dishes.

"Thanks, I try to practice all the time... ...where's your home?"

[braveomaticaya]

"Your people, the humans, they call it Pandora," he says. "It is far from your planet, your Earth, and takes a long time to get here by your flying crafts."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen doesn't look up at first. She's got poison glands to extract from the scorpion tails she took this morning, and the job is tricky. On the other hand, her dog is under no such limitation, and the newcomer is not a smell he recognizes.

Tsu'tey, there's a scruffy-looking dog sniffing in your general direction.

[braveomaticaya]

Tsu'tey does not recognize this animal, and backs away with a few steps until his tail hits the wall with a soft thump and he stops, blinking. He won't bare his teeth at it or hiss yet--he has no idea if that will even work--but it's not a comfortable situation, this.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Fortunately, Dogmeat isn't the kind to cause trouble unless he thinks his human is threatened, and she isn't as far as he can see. So he turns and whufs in her direction instead of moving anywhere.

Ellen looks up, blinking. "Dogmeat, what- oh...."

Yeah, okay, that's new. The aliens she knows are about three and a half feet tall and green. Big and blue? Probably not a threat.

"Dogmeat. Come and sit under the table, please."

The dog doesn't see any reason not to do so. He sits; Ellen rises. "I'm sorry about that. Are you, um... are you all right?"

[braveomaticaya]

He isn't particularly alarmed by the creature sniffing at him; it's only one more unknown thing in a whole place full of the same. But the human--at least in general--he recognizes, and tries a human greeting of a nod, making eye-contact.

"Dog...meat. This is your creature's name?" he asks.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen nods. "He's named after a heroic dog in a friend of mine's tribal history," she says. People who ask about the name usually need to hear where it comes from, she's found. "They... don't have dogs where you come from, I'm guessing?"

It's not really all that big a surprise if that's the case. They didn't have dogs where she came from, either.

[braveomaticaya]

"No," he answers, ears no longer flattened against his skull quite as much as when he first stepped through the door--thankfully he's now out of the way of anyone else coming in.

"I have never seen them," Tsu'tey explains, crouching down to get closer with a grace that comes from having lived in a much more vertically challenging environment than the bar. (More or less so, anyway, if we don't include the people who use the rafters as an equally available seating spot.) "Such things as this one's fur," says Tsu'tey, "They are not common on Pandora."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Oh, wow. That's kind of interesting to watch.

"He's a- oh! Pandora!" Ellen sits back, blinking. "I know that name- that's where Trudy flies. Is that your homeworld, then?"

[braveomaticaya]

"Yes," he says, nodding and giving her a little smile, or what passes for one--at least he isn't frowning.

"Trudy, I know her. We call her a different name," Tsu'tey says, staying in the comfortable crouch to be closer to Ellen to talk.

[wannab_hokage]

Naruto ran through the door.