Hair of the... Bug?

Cora

I ain't afraid 'a no ghosts!
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Sep 11, 2017
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The Land of a Thousand Lakes
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Coraline lazed about on the couch in the living area of the dorm room. Her feet were up on a pillow, and neck was on the arm of the chair. In her hands was a pouch, into which she set small amounts of each material she needed from the pile at her side, on the table.
”A pinch of epsom salt... one vial of crushed whale bone… Tear of a virgin, that one was easy... A lock of hair…” She stopped. She was missing a lock of hair. She looked into the mirror in the corner. Her own hair was quite short. Was she really willing to part with it?

No, better to find another way first. She could steal some from Brecken… No, she wasn’t sure that what he had even counted as hair. Nanya might oblige, but she shuddered to think of what the girl might want in return. She hadn’t quite figured her out, but she knew there was something odd about that girl. That left… Margo. Oh, shit, wait, Margo was perfect! She’d hardly notice a lock missing when she could change her shape on a whim. Floating up from her seat, she drifted across the room to the door of her dear friend, to pay her a visit.

She didn’t knock, she never did. It hadn’t lead to any uncomfortable situations… Yet. Her head poked through the walls of Margo’s room, and, in a singsong voice, she cooed. ”Margo, heeeey! How ‘ya doing? What’s up?” Came her voice as she floated in, attempting to butter the naive girl up before popping the question.
 

Rustykid Rooni

Shapeshifting Bug Girl
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Margo had been spending the evening with a book in her face, reading as much as she could about human culture. There were quantities of encyclopedias that caused her to stagger back in sheer awe, and with such being the case, she decided quite simply to start one book at a time. Feeling particularly at ease in the privacy of her own room, Margo allowed her wings to sprout from her back and rest gracefully against her pillow, while her web spinners morphed into existence at the base of her spine.

Manta Carlos at night was beautiful, at least in her little corner of the island. The crickets outside joined into a beautiful nocturnal chorus, while Margo chipped along with them using her insectoid vocal chords. Surely, it was a night of peace and meditation-one that she thought would last for quite some time. However, the illusion of an evening serenity came crashing down with the sudden appearance of Coraline's head through her door.

"Woah!" she cried out in shock and, once again on instinct, fired her web spinners at the levitating head. By the time she figured out who it was that was speaking to them through the door, the webbing was already airborne and flying right towards her.
 

Cora

I ain't afraid 'a no ghosts!
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Sep 11, 2017
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The Land of a Thousand Lakes
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As webs flew towards Coraline, she winced, but thankfully, they flew straight through her, smacking into the wall behind her, which Coraline had emerged from.
"Watch where you shoot those things!" She huffed, coming to rest on the floor, sitting with her legs crossed. "You coulda killed me!" She added, not really upset anymore. She giggled in a way that might have been creepy to someone who understood the conditions of her death.

"Anyways, I came by to request a favor." She said, floating up and crossing so that she was parallel to Margo now. "How do you feel about letting me borrow a lock of hair? Would it grow back if I took it?" she asked, her eyes innocent. "I need it for a... For a project I'm working on." She said, cutting herself short. When she needed things from her parents, she said she was working on a project, and that always seemed to work. Better not to tell Margo she was summoning a spirit into the room.
 

Rustykid Rooni

Shapeshifting Bug Girl
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Margo blushed as she watched her blob of webbing fire across the room and splash against the back wall. Great. That's twice she's managed to lose control of herself like that. "Sorry, sorry!" she stammered, and was relieved to hear Coraline giggle a little bit. At least the episode was short-lived.

Cora then asked if she could borrow a lock of hair, and had asked if it would grow back. "It would grow back. My shapeshifting thingy lets me regrow any hair I lose," she explained. She was slightly hesistant to allow Cora a strand of hair, due to having so far been denied a clear explaination as to what it would be used for. A "project" could encompass literally anything.

However, Margo couldn't help but feel increasingly guilty about having tried to web up Cora a second time, and in combination with her innocent eyes, she couldn't help but oblige the ghost girl's request. Taking a pair of scissors from off of her nightstand, Margo knicked a decent palm-full of hair and handed it to Cora before promptly activating her shapeshifting ability to regrow the severed hair.
 

Cora

I ain't afraid 'a no ghosts!
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Sep 11, 2017
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The Land of a Thousand Lakes
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Coraline waved a hand as if to dismiss the matter upon hearing Margo's apology.
"You're fine, really, but you owe me." She said, winking mysteriously. Nothing good could come of owing a favor to someone like Coraline, but did Margo know that? Upon the very instant Margo agreed to submit her hair to Cora, nay, the mere second syllable, she had already snateched up the scissors.

...Or, she would have, but she didn't want to get webbed again, incorporeal or not. She smiled as the girl gingerly cut a generous portion of hair and handed it to Coraline, who binded it with twine immediately. "Even Steven." She said, grinning to the other girl, floating right on out the door. "Thanks a million!" She said, placing the twine in her pocket. She floated down to the floor, landing on her feet.

"Watcha' doin'?" She asked, glancing to the book in Margo's hands. "I hardly ever see you come out of your little cocoon in here."
 

Rustykid Rooni

Shapeshifting Bug Girl
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Sep 10, 2017
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USA
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Margo shrugged as she put her book down on the bed and looked up at the ceiling, contemplating various things. There were a million things she was thinking about, but above all she was worried about her future-a worry she hoped to forget by distracting herself with a book. Though it continued plaguing her mind as she shifted her focus to Coraline, she elected to keep it out of the conversation. After all, she had just shot webbing at the mysterious ghost girl. There was no need to complicate the relationship further with personal issues.

"I'm just reading, right now really," she replied with a passive shrug. "It helps me relax, and...well, I'm not exactly an extrovert..."

Whoops. So much for not complicating the relationship with personal problems. Margo cringed as her words escaped her lips, inwardly beating herself up over not being able to control her output of problems. Not wanting to look back at Coraline, she continued staring at the ceiling, still cringing slightly.
 
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