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Guppy talks to Behrooz about his sudden change of body, and magic in general

Guppy comes out of the gents toilets. He is completely translucent and ghost-like, even his clothes. He goes back to the bar and tries to sit on a stool next to the astonished flamingo, only he keeps falling through it, so eventually he gives up and sits on the floor. She hands him a note.

'I told you you weren't eating enough.'

He looks up at her.

"Look, Mitzi, I may have lost a little weight over the last few days, but this is ridiculous."

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Behrooz stares for a minute. And blinks. And still sees Guppy as ghost-like.

Ok then.

"Um... hi..." he says, walking over. "Are you... what happened to you?"

He shakes his head.

"I don't know. Judging by Mitzi's expression it wasn't her."

He then thinks of something, and peers inside his shirt.

"Heart's still beating, so I can't be dead."

"And the dead people in here can still be pretty solid..." he knows this from personal experience, yep.

"You just... became a ghost?"

He nods.

"Yes, just like that." he says, still staring at his translucent hands.

"Oh well." he says, with a shrug. "Somebody in here is bound to know how to reverse it."

"I guess so..." This makes Behrooz a little uncomfortable. Something like that could just... happen. Maybe he's still not really used to this place.

"Can you pick things up or anything?"

"Well I keep falling through the barstool. Maybe it takes practice."

He tries again to pick up the broken glass next to him; even if he has changed he's still concerned that somebody might get hurt on it. His hand goes straight through it. He glances up at Mitzi.

"Could you change this into something less sharp? I don't want anyone to tread on it."

Mitzi obliges, closing her eyes and glowing slightly. A small puddle of pond water appears in its place. If she'd changed it for something solid, the glass would have appeared somewhere else, whole, to hurt someone. By making it liquid, its atoms were distributed in different places around the universe as grains of sand.

Behrooz stares for a moment at the magically created puddle of water, but quickly looks back up at Guppy. He knows he should probably just be used to that sort of thing by now.

"That's... very strange," he tries not to appear to weirded-out by it, though. He doesn't want to come across as rude.

"It is, isn't it. A lot of things in here are strange. But I suppose they're probably quite normal to someone from a magical world."

Mitzi flies over and sits on Behrooz's shoulder. Now that he's here, she is expecting petting.

"Anyway, are you okay? No sudden changes of body or anything like that?"

Behrooz pets the top of the flamingo's head. Despite also being kind of strange, she makes him feel better. Distracts him from thinking about his mother, at least.

"I don't think so," Behrooz says, looking at his perfectly solid hands. "I think I'm pretty much fine."

"That's good. Because Eska's turned into a man, and Gil's turned into a faun, and who knows what else might happen. Not that I'm trying to worry you or anything." he adds.

Mitzi tickles Behrooz's chin with fluffy pink feathers.

...all right then. Not that Behrooz knows any of these people, but he assumes that's kind of weird.

"I'll try to keep an eye out," Behrooz says, smiling a little and gently putting the small bird on his palm to pet her.

"It just seems like that must have been... kind of a shock."

"It was a bit. One minute I was sitting having a swig of beer and trying to stop Mitzi from sulking, because I'd refused to eat a whole cucumber earlier. The next minute the glass fell through my hand and I fell through the stool."

But he neither sounds nor feels particularly shocked. Something inside him tells him that he ought to be worried, but somehow he just isn't.

Behrooz is probably more concerned with this than Guppy is, likely because it makes him feel a little more an edge. But petting Mitzi still serves as a nice distraction.

"Well, I guess if you can't eat that way, you won't have to worry about her force-feeding you."

Behrooz gets a grin this time.

"I know. Brilliant isn't it. She can't even steal my body, and it must be about three days since she last did it, so technically she could have done it again."

Mitzi scowls and turns her back on him. Now that she's got over the shock of him becoming translucent in front of her, she's prepared to sulk again. Plus she's being nicely petted over here...

"Steal your body?" Behrooz continues to pet the bird, though he's looking down at her curiously now.

"It's okay." he reassures him. "It takes a lot of magic for her to do it. She won't do it to you. She did it to me the other day to try and talk sense into me without having to write it all out. And to force my body to eat the biscuit she'd been trying to give me all evening. But she can't do it for very long, and has to save up magic for a few days beforehand."

Mitzi looks at Behrooz with big, innocent eyes.

"Ok then..." he can't help feeling uncomfortable with the idea of someone or something taking control of his body, but he tries to dismiss it and continues to pet Mitzi.

"It sounds like you've had a lot more experience with this... magic thing here than I have."

"Since I got Mitzi, yes. It's been a steep learning curve. But I don't understand it at all, and I'm quite scared of it really, normally at least." he says, suddenly wondering why he isn't scared.
"Still" he says, dismissing the thought, "even if you're from a non-magic world, you pick a bit up by talking to people in here. And once Mitzi and I found a way to communicate, I could see that she didn't actually want to hurt me."

"Yeah." Behrooz hasn't had that many encounters with magic beyond Mitzi and his subject-changing textbook, so he's not sure what to think about it. "I guess I still don't know very much about this place."

"Me neither, so you're not alone."

He suddenly feels very tired, probably because his body has just changed every cell and he isn't used to being like this.

"I'm going to head up to bed. Changing bodies has worn me out, and I need to think of a way to sleep without falling through the ceiling. See you."

[ooc: sorry, mun has to go to bed]

Behrooz smiles a little. "Good luck with that. See you later."

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