04 - He'll wait until the cows come home

[cantwhinnyemall]

[Equius had expected the return of his true blue blood color, or perhaps his immense strength, or perhaps implements of one of his many enlightened hobbies. He had not expected the blank packet to contain his sweet faithful butler at all, but the reunion with Aurthour was welcome indeed.]

[Housemates/visitors/passerby may encounter this elegant

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[foretastes]

[Terezi is walking by. Of course, she's in her human body, so maybe Equius won't recognize her. What she does do, though, is walk directly into Aurthour in a magnificent display of, well. Blindness.]

Uggghhh! What was that?

[cantwhinnyemall]

[He's not looking for further instances of trolls in human guise and he's wearing heavy sunglasses due to the morning sun.]

He is Aurthour, strongest of lusii.

[Aurthour shuffles around her to work on a different section of fence. A good butler is never an obstruction for any longer than absolutely necessary.]

[foretastes]

[it takes her a moment, but then she looks surprised.]

Equius! That is definitely you.

[cantwhinnyemall]

[How does she... Oh. So that's who she is. The tealblood who can't have a conversation without slobbering all over her screen.]

Miss Pyrope. It has been quite some time.

[doublerinbow]

[walkin' her puppy up the street and that is a horse???

cow???

....... mustache face?????

Of course, she can't gawk for too long because the dog's pulling on the leash and barking at Aurthour. He is more confused than she is, so she has to keep him under control! So here's Rin across the street and trying to calm the puppy down before it loses its shit at this freakish monster butler.]

Aaah, jeez... ♪

[cantwhinnyemall]

[Aurthuor continues to placidly snip away with his hedgeclippers. Equius can't very well study with all that racket going on, so he puts the book down and strolls on over.]

Rin are you incapable of exercising control over your barkbeast?

[doublerinbow]

[oh no so embarrassing... wait, barkbeast?]

Sorry!! He's usually nice, I think he's just in shock over seeing ... um... him. ♪

[She looks over at the cowhorsedude. Actually, though Rin may be accustomed to seeing trolls by now, Equius is pretty different too, so the dog isn't calming down yet now that he's approached. He whines and barks some more.]

Well, maybe if you ignore him, he'll give up! ♪

[cantwhinnyemall]

Are musclebeasts uncommon on his world, or does he simply dislike them?

[pokeay]

[ what is that... it can't be a Pokémon, can it... ]

Uh... wh, what are you...?

[cantwhinnyemall]

[Aurthuor turns to him, bows, and resumes inspecting the mailbox. They don't have a postal system on Alternia and he is pretty damn baffled- oho the lever moves now he's getting somewhere.]

[pokeay]

[ this is... very strange. ]

Um, do you need help with that?

[cantwhinnyemall]

[That gets him a sheepish nod.]

[crusthatecean]

[Oh, great. Equius' lusus always kind of weirded him out. Maybe it's just the knowledge he has about the milk, or maybe it's the bruises, but it's just a situation he's not interested in learning more about.

On the other hand, this is something worth hearing about, so he reluctantly looks around for Equius.]

Hey.

You got your lusus back?

[cantwhinnyemall]

Yes.

He has been similarly baffled by the setting and situation but I believe he will adjust in time.

Also I believe he regards it as an improvement on his previous state.