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Finally Free

Who: Kaito Watari and YOU! Open of all the people
Where: The Cancer District
Summary: Kaito is finally feeling better and he's out wandering the town, but mainly in the Cancer district. Backdated to the 20th.
Warning: X-treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme silliness

It was a little warmer, and Kaito was feeling less sick, so clearly this was his chance to go outside and get some fresh air. Yes.

This was clearly the best time to window shop in the Cancer district instead of going to, let's say, somewhere more outdoorsy. Like a park. How about it, Kaito? Feel like going to a park?

...No? Just going to press your face against the glass and stare at all the cool shit?

Alright then!

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"Computers?" Avitus repeated, quietly, looking back into the store to stare at the pretty shiny things.

Clearly, this was some new demon. Maybe? Okay, maybe not really, but it could be, right? Some sort of angel-drow-raven... whatever? Not human, obviously, whatever they were. No human legs could bend backwards at the shin like that to fit into those long birdish ones so nicely. And one of those was lifted slightly as they shifted their stance, bringing those toes up to the knee a few inches, before setting them back down... yeeeah, no, not a human.

And there was a subtle hint of that cooing sound again, for only a second or so before it was cut off rather deliberately.

"They're really pretty...." Must be talking about the screen savers. Go ahead and facepalm, Kaito.

Granted, a lot of computers can be built to look pretty neat or steamlined, but he was getting the feeling that wasn't what they were talking about...

"Aha, yeah they...sure are..."

He said while he reached into his pocket for his phone...

Go ahead, get the thing out. Birdie's busy trying not to coo at the screen savers there, totally entranced for the moment. :3

((demon/battle info scanner thing, I suspect? *g*))

Yeah, Kaito slowly brought out his phone and held up the open screen, waiting for some kind of scan.

"404 FILE NOT FOUND."

"...Wh-" Come on, they're not even, what...an Avian or something!?

Guess he'll have to find his info some other way, then.

At least this one didn't seem to be any sort of threat right now. For one thing, they were acting a little like a kid at... well, Christmas, really, just staring in wonder at the pretty monitor displays there, eyes slightly wide, smiling a bit...

...And putting a hand up to touch the window's glass, lightly, kind of not really thinking about it. Two fingers and a thumb on that hand... and the nails... actually, by their curve and size, those were probably talons at one point, except they've been manicured down to a totally non-threatening, non-pointy end now. And those match the nail of the toe that just poked through the feathers under the wing behind them, too, on their heel.

Some predatory demon this was, when they kept their nails filed down like a human's, and got all distracted by SHINY OBJECTS, right?

"Are these... common here? I mean... do a lot of people have them?" Still staring into the shop, haha.

That may have been true, but Pixies were demons too, and they could get dangerous. Then again, it wasn't like demons hanging around here were uncommon.

"I dunno about those ones, but a lot of people have computers. You've, uh....never seen one?"

Have a head-shake no. Burdie finally looks back to Kaito, tearing those eyes away from the terribly hypnotic screensaver.

"There's a lot of things here I never saw in Nosgoth. It's like... it's... kind of like... when I was younger, and one of the other clans...."

He stopped himself there, sighing, and put on a little smile again, looking back up to Kaito. "...It still feels kind of like I'm dreaming, honestly. I'm sort of... not sure I'm not."

"...Hah, I kinda doubt you're dreaming. If you were, I'd be having one weird existential crisis right now!"

"You'd-- Oh! Because you'd be in my dream. Right!" At least that got a smile.

"I guess this just... takes some getting used to, huh. All the technology, and the different people, and...." A vague gesture around them. "Even the buildings look different."

He paused at hearing a bird overhead -- just a common one, playing around on top of some of the buildings -- and peeked up at it. "Well. That's the same, at least...."

His gaze went to the bird as well, and he chuckled a little.

"Hmm. Where are you from?"

"The Citadel. It's-- Oh, you mean-- Um. I'm from Nosgoth."

Still awkward at introductions... though, that did remind him of something!

He takes his cloth shopping bag off his right, to put it on his left wrist, and sticks the freed hand out to him in a handshake offer. "My name's Avitus."

Yeah, whoops, just about spaced that out entirely here. He might be keeping that little smile, but he's kind of biting the inside of his lip now too, wings pressing a little more tightly against him.

Nosgoth, eh? He nodded and stuck out his hand for a handshake.

"I'm Kaito. Cool to meet you. So what's...Nosgoth?"

"It's..." Paaaaaaause.

The irony, not that Kaito would know, is that this burd is actually the architect behind the majority of the buildings in the Citadel, the current largest city existing in his era. ~~That he knows of. Turel's territory doesn't count.~~

....And he's not sure how to describe it to someone that doesn't know already.

"It's... where I'm from," he tried, well aware after he said it that that was a pretty poor excuse for an explanation. He gave a sheepish look.

"I mean... it's pretty rocky. And there's a river that runs under the Citadel, from the mountains nearby... and we have some fields the humans grow things in, near the Citadel... but Heldrad says the rest of Nosgoth's pretty much dead. Is... that what you mean?"

Maybe if Avitus had a better idea of just what Kaito wanted to know about it, he could answer better?

"Kinda. What kind of people live there, what's it like, that sort of thing. Like, it doesn't have those," He said as he gestured toward the computers displayed. "I'm assuming. Right?"

"Oh! No. No, it doesn't. But when I was a lot younger, one of the other clans made a whole lot of... things. And Winnoc would tell me all about it, when he came back from visiting them." Quieter, "I really wish I'd gone with him, now. But it was different then.

"Anyway, he said they had all kinds of things, like a box, that had this cone on a hole on its front, and you point it at something, and... a while later, you can get a picture of what it was pointed at, like a painting, except... it wasn't a painting."

Photography?

His smile turned a little sad. "But it's been ages since they were around and making things like that. And the clans never traded with the humans in their Citadel... so when my clan was destroyed, we... kind of lost most of that. We've got some of those things again, at least. Like... electricity, for lights. And big machines for washing a lot of clothes at once. But it's just my clan and the humans now, and the other clans are mostly these... monster... things. And everyone's trying to get rid of them. The Turelim are still smart, but...."

He was quiet a second, thinking about it. "My sketchbooks are in my quarters, if you wanted to see...? It... might be easier to explain by showing you."

((tl;dr: Kaito, you're invited back to his place to see his drawings of/from home. :3 Burd's a lil on the trusting side, lol.))

Well, this wouldn't be the first time a non-human has opened up to him, honestly.

Seriously, what the hell was with that?

"Sure, it sounds interesting. Oh!" Fiddling with his phone again. "Wanna see something cool?"

"Sure."

He took a slow step a little closer, tilting his head at the little device. Curious, yes. Wanting to invade Kaito's space, no.

With that, he pressed a button a couple of times and there was a "click" noise. Kaito then turned his phone around to show Avitus a...photo of himself.

"This is what you were talking about, right? With photos?"

Avitus just stared a second before nodding. "Sort of. I-- how did you do that? That's--

"The one Winnoc showed me didn't have color, and it was on-- it wasn't paper, but--"

Congrats, you've pretty much both stumped him and made his night there.

"You're talking about photography. It sounds you had a really really old camera. This isn't one, it's a phone that has a tiny camera in it."

Wh...wha...

??????!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?

Yeah, no kidding. So Kaito's getting a better idea of the tech level this budie came from, by this point? Because the burdie's getting an idea of just how lost he's going to feel here for a while.

"...And it makes the picture with color, too."

Silent a moment. Wings got a little floofy-feathered, so he puts those behind him more again, gives them a brief shiver to try knocking the feathers back into place, and tucks them more tightly against his back again.

"....how long did it take to come up with something like that?"

"...The pictures with color thing or the putting a camera in a phone thing?"

"Either? ....both?"

"Well...I dunno about the color, that was awhile after black and white photos, but the phone camera thing is kind of recent. I think that was like...it started being a thing ten years ago?"

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