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[heatherandsteel]

Quentin is popping his knuckles out of nervousness when he enters from the front door without a disguise.

It takes him a few moments to notice where he is as he's going through all that's going on. When he realizes where he is, he debates putting up his disguise but figures that for now, he might need his magic elsewhere.

So he's sitting at the counter with his sharper beauty, blond hair with copper streaks through it and a sandwich in front of him along with a hot chocolate.

(OOC: Quentin is now farther along into canon, just past chapter 18 of One Salt Sea. Other threads set before the one with Nori.)

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[electro_kinetic]

Noriko is hanging by her knees from one of the thick rafter joists with a clear plastic ball in her hands, carefully manipulating a metal ball through segments of twisting,swirling, stair-stepping track.

And it's only when Quentin starts popping his knuckles again mid-sandwich that Noriko really takes notice of him, shifting her head to the side to see around the ball. "Nervous, pussycat?" she asks, blue hair swaying down towards the floor.

[heatherandsteel]

He jumps at her voice and reaches for his belt then remembers his sword is at home, with her hair she could almost be Fae and he tastes the air for any magic,

"I'm not a cat, don't have the claws for it."

[electro_kinetic]

Well, she's not magic at all, unless you count the magic of hair dye and genetic mutations, and that can be a little dubious.

"It's just a figure of speech," she says. "I can see you're not literally a cat."

[heatherandsteel]

"I could be and I know it is,"

He thinks its an odd choice for him but he might try it once on Raj, it might get him scratched though.

[electro_kinetic]

Her eyebrows raise, and she gives up the game and bends enough to set the ball on the joist between her shins. "You're currently kind of person-shaped for that, aren't you?"

[heatherandsteel]

"So, this is Milliways and my best friend is a cat and he changes shape whenever he wants,"

One thing he likes about Milliways is that being a Fae isn't that weird here, he's just a patron with pointy ears.

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko levels him with a dry look. "Yeah, this is Milliways. The place where you evidently can't tell different worlds from crazy people," she mutters, mostly to herself.

"So you're a shapeshifter?"

[heatherandsteel]

"No, I'm a Daoine Sidhe, not a shapeshifter. Did you have a point when you started talking to me?"

If she was curious, she could ask instead of getting annoyed because he pointed out that perhaps calling strangers pussycat is weird.

[electro_kinetic]

"Did I need to?" she asks, expectant. "You were the one popping your knuckles, I just decided to be moderately pleasant and say hello."

[heatherandsteel]

"I see. Then you need to work on the pleasant part of it and I've got to be going,"

He's not going to be as rude as he could be since he doesn't know who she is or what she can do, but he's not in the mood for this. Maybe there will be some news from Toby at home and he stands up nods and heads towards the door.