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[thymeforbones]

Who: Clover, Visitors
When: Day 61, evening and night
Where: Clover

[ After a long and interesting trial, Meri-in-Eliza has decided to DESTRESS ]

[ Namely by trying to climb the trees in her garden. Anyone who wants to join her will find that her bedroom door is wide open, and the curtain separating her "indoor" and "outdoor" areas pushed back. ]

Wah! Why don't humans have claws!

Comments

[beeknighted]

[Back in his own body FINALLY. Clambering his way into the tree too.]

You have to grip it like this.

[thymeforbones]

Like ... [ Staaaaaares at his hand and the way he's holding his fingers. ]

Like that!

[ Nope. She's still getting it wrong. ]

[beeknighted]

Um, more like... The branch needs to be firmly in your palm? And the way you're using your fingers, with claws you'd maily use your fingertips right? But human grip needs you to wrap your whole fingers around it and your thumb wrapped the opposite way, when I pull up most of the pressure is on the middle phalanx - um, middle part of my fingers. Does that help?

[thymeforbones]

In my palm ... [ Shifts her grip. ] With my fingers wrapped around it ... [ Shifts again, and now she's finally starting to get it. ]

Claws are still better.

[pumako]

[....he hasn't talked to Mao a whole lot.]

[So why is there SUDDEN FEELINGS about Mao?]

[Studying over top of coffee cup.]

[beeknighted]

[Why are you staring at me??]

Faito?

[pumako]

[Because you went through the trust death fan blade door the proper way and now he has Feelings.]

Nope. I live here.

[meridional]

[rearing up on her hind feet to rest her forepaws on the trunk]

You gotta teach her the value of the primates' method! We're totally evolved for this.

[beeknighted]

Hi Eliza. I'm making sure to teach her all the wonders of thumbs.

[meridional]

Make sure you cover the metacarpals, too!

[terribletwos]

How come you're still stuck like that?

[ Coming over to give her a boost, as much as he can given his height. ]

[thymeforbones]

Oh! Hi Roxas!

[ Gets a better grip on the branch and awkwardly hauls herself up, heave ho ]

Don't know how. Maybe 'cause Eliza and me wanted to stay switched for longer?

[terribletwos]

Why? Don't you already have a human form?

[pumako]

Trial runners are dicks.

[terribletwos]

... Dusk?

[meridional]

[rolling around aways in the sand pit]

Because it's fun!

[terribletwos]

Eliza, right?

[pumako]

Claws would get in the way of fine tune finger movements.

[And that's 'Faito' leaning against the edge of the door, drinking coffee.]

[Which is gonna be what Faito is doing For A Bit, petting Sunset for any other Clover's to talk to 'her.']

[thymeforbones]

That's why they're retractable!

[ She (finally) manages to haul herself up onto one of the branches, flopping there on her belly for a minute or two. ]

You're one of Dusk's people?

[pumako]

Could you put together machines with your....paws? [More curious than anything.]

I am the Dusk person.

Because fate just looooves me so much this week.

[meridional]

Dusk! Dusk dusk dusk look!

[pumako]

You're quick on the uptake.

[But smiles in amusement.] First hand experience of a dragon everything you ever dreamed?

[meridional]

[pauses mid-roll in the sandpit]

Hey! I don't have claws, but my nails are super cute painted like that.

[thymeforbones]

They are! They're super cute!

But so bad at trees.

[meridional]

Our nails are made for other things. Our hands are for trees~ they're perfectly made for gripping branches!