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Horus

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No matter what he did, the slime was not getting off him. He flailed, picked at it, tried to rub it away from his skin to no avail. Flapping his stickied wings was entirely useless on multiple fronts, and he was losing more of his already scant feathers from doing so than actually dislodging the slime.

But just like that, it gathered on his shoulders. At some point, Tybalt had flailed off the swing and landed on his ass on the gravel underneath. The thing whirled around his shoulders much like a silvery scarf, only a lot bigger than what he'd ever wear.

"Wha--" Disoriented, he glanced around to make sure it was all gone. Nobody was around a child's park this time of day.

"What the heck was that!?"
 

Bowen

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Lima-Sierra hadn't fed on anyone so.... flail-y before. It was a strange experience, and might actually be rather enjoyable and entertaining to repeat. Not the starving-to-death part, though. That part sucked and was absolutely horrible.

The former food source was talking now, though, and Lima-Sierra finally had the energy to pay attention to the difficult words. None of Tybalt's words made any sense to the slime, but then vocabulary was a slow-growing thing. The questioning nature of the unknown words was understandable. Perhaps the former food source wanted to know about Lima-Sierra? Lima-Sierra could help with that!

The slime extended an appendage to point at the main body of slime. "Lima-Sierra!" The appendage reshaped to point at Tybalt's face. "Want to learn?" Asking for introductions got easier with every new word~
 

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The thing could talk. He'd confirmed that when he first looked down at it and made the horrible mistake to try and nudge it. But yes, okay, so the thing could talk and it had some sort of intelligence and it just felt up every square inch of his body. Great.

Lima-Sierra. Was that its name? Because it certainly didn't sound like any sort of species, or denotation of rank or anything like that. Tybalt frowned.

"That doesn't help. I don't know what a Lima-Sierra is, unless that's your name." He recoiled a bit when it pointed a slimy appendage at his face, not like he got far. The thing was sitting right on his shoulder.

"Learn what?"
 

Bowen

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Lima-Sierra felt the host's confusion. No longer being hungry, though, the slime made no effort to remove it. Besides, the host was not the only one confused. Everyone was confused. This whole thing was confusing. The confusion was probably confused too.

Besides, Lima-Sierra was working on something else. The host did not seem to be understanding the concept. He repeated Lima-Sierra's name, yes, but the seemingly offered name -

well, maybe the host's name just happened to be similar to a word Lima-Sierra already knew. It was entirely possible. Lima-Sierra knew so little of the world. Just to check, though, the slime extended an appendage again to point at Tybalt. "Learnwhat, yes?"
 

Horus

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Confused was to put it somewhat lightly. He cocked his head to the side to get a better look at the opalescent creature that shimmered on his shoulder, held there almost weightlessly. Tybalt's wings were still out, but now they were huddled close around him as if seeking warmth of their own.

"Me?" He shook his head. "No. What do you want me to learn?" What?

He didn't even know anymore.

"I'm Tybalt." He pointed to himself. Well, he was sort of Tybalt. His actual name was Puriel, but it hadn't been uttered to him in a few hundred years now. Not since he'd fallen. No, he'd taken on plenty of names since then, but never once had he revealed his true name to anything on this mortal plane.
 

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No? That wasn't something Lima-Sierra really knew, but the correction was clear. The host was not Learnwhat, the host was Tybalt.

"Tybalt, yes?" the slime confirmed, the name a little eerily similar in sound to Tybalt's own voice. Imitation of new sounds was much easier than generation, but with a bit of practice the slime would make it properly. For now, though, simple imitation would suffice.

Hm. The slime sat on Tybalt's shoulder for a few moments, internally considering and processing. Lima-Sierra might not seem particularly intelligent, but in reality the slime was simply incredibly young. What infants that still counted their age in individual days had complex vocabularies? In comparison, Lima-Sierra was quite the prodigy.

And it was more vocabulary than processing power that the slime lacked. It took a lot of work to use the limited word list Lima-Sierra had painstakingly collected to convey much of anything beyond basic hunger, and even the ability to insult or name individuals was a new development.

"Tybalt bad, want to learn?" Lima-Sierra finally said, speaking slowly and frustrated that there were so few words. Bad really wasn't the right word, but the way Tybalt felt wasn't anything like earth, or sleep, or cute. There was a level of unpleasantness, but nothing really fit.

Limited vocabularies were ruuuuude.
 

Horus

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"Uh... Yes, Tybalt." He didn't know about a last name. Surely the thing seemed confused as it was, and there would be little point in giving her his surname too. Not like it mattered; he only took the name because it was normal at the time, not that he actually had one. "Puriel" was his only true name, and it hadn't been spoken by him on the mortal plane for hundreds of years now.

But now the slime seemed to be pensive. At least, as pensive as a slime could be while perched on his shoulder. Now that it wasn't touching him all over anymore, he felt a little calmer. It wasn't going to coat him and dissolve him to eat. No, it looked like it wanted to learn. That was okay, wasn't it?

"Bad?" He cocked a curly brow, wondering what the slime meant by that. "Well yes, I'd like to learn what you are. Not sure how that makes me bad, though." He huffed. "Heck, you're the one that coated me in... you?"

That didn't sound right.
 

Bowen

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"Tybalt!" Lima-Sierra was glad to have a confirmed name. The host was Tybalt. The flaily host. The flaily host who had saved the slime from starvation.

The flaily hero host who used too many words. Lima-Sierra let out a noise like a balloon with the mouth released, and jiggled slightly. "Tybalt. Bad. Bad emotion." Talking was haaaaard and took energy when the slime had to piece things this complex together with such a haphazard dictionary. Lima-Sierra's solution was to spread out a tiny bit and draw on Tybalt's emotions again.

"Lima-Sierra hungry. Emotions. Tybalt bad emotion. Want to learn?"
 

Horus

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The noise was a little odd. A jelly was able to make all these noises, but with what? Did it even have vocal chords? Did it have the right anatomy to do so? Why was it making noises in the first place?

"Bad emotions?" Well, he supposed he was feeling rather glum. Was that what she'd sucked out of him? Or at least felt from him? The thing wasn't exactly something he'd encountered before, and he'd lived quite a few years now.

Still, he had to admit he'd been feeling rather glum lately. Something something longing for home something.

"Y... Yes?" Sure, he'd learn... If this thing had anything to teach him.
 

Bowen

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This was not going well at all. Lima-Sierra suspected that Tybalt made the connection that it was the host's bad emotions that the slime was interested in, but the rest was just... well. Not encouraging. He'd gone straight from too many words to too few!

"No no no. Lima-Sierra want to learn." Was that how the words were supposed to go? It seemed close enough. It might work, and if it didn't then Lima-Sierra would just have to move words around again until not-so-bright host Tybalt clued in.
 
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