#023 - Curious
This was a silly one that came to me while trying to sleep last night. Saria, you should pay close attention :3
Curious
The book had been safely hidden away for a while.
He suspected it had been dropped by one of those crazy girls who had invaded the town a couple months back, for he'd found it splayed open on the floor of the mall after they vanished.
It was the picture on the cover that caught his attention: two humans tangled together in the kind of embrace that made him feel dizzy, as if all of his internal systems were failing at the same time. It left him wondering if the book would contain any answers to the mystery that was human mating. Every one made vague comments about the things they thought he was doing with Inferno, but no one would give him a straight answer about any of it.
After staring at it for a while and glancing around to see if any one was looking for it, he had snatched up the volume and set it aside for later, when he could satisfy his curiosity.
When he found himself human for the nth time, and bored, he eventually thought of the book and the intriguing picture on the cover, retrieved it from its hiding place, and began reading it.
He was about halfway through it when things got interesting and words stopped making sense. These unknown words started cropping up here and there, words that sounded funny, but seemed to be essential parts of the text.
Now curiosity is a funny thing; it can make you put forth more of an effort than you usually would, just to satisfy it. That was how he found himself standing in the high school library -he didn't know if another library existed in town and it was easy enough to pretend to be a student, anyway- looking up unfamiliar, difficult words in a large, dusty dictionary.
The dictionary only served to make things more confusing, as one definition led to another led to another and he eventually asked the sleepy-looking drone behind the desk for assistance. The inquiry led to books about medicine, biology and human reproduction, which led him to only the most clinical, boring understanding of human mating that could possibly exist.
In the end, he came to the conclusion that the book was a waste of time and that the humans were idiots for inferring that he wanted to participate in such activities. After all, neither he nor Inferno had one of the body parts needed for such a thing -- A crucial access port was missing from the equation. Stupid humans.
But...The book had given him some ideas of other less ridiculous things to try out when Inferno was feeling indulgent and agreeable...
Maybe it hadn't been a total loss after all.
PS - I bought a flamingo purse. Pictures will appear on Sunday.
Curious
The book had been safely hidden away for a while.
He suspected it had been dropped by one of those crazy girls who had invaded the town a couple months back, for he'd found it splayed open on the floor of the mall after they vanished.
It was the picture on the cover that caught his attention: two humans tangled together in the kind of embrace that made him feel dizzy, as if all of his internal systems were failing at the same time. It left him wondering if the book would contain any answers to the mystery that was human mating. Every one made vague comments about the things they thought he was doing with Inferno, but no one would give him a straight answer about any of it.
After staring at it for a while and glancing around to see if any one was looking for it, he had snatched up the volume and set it aside for later, when he could satisfy his curiosity.
When he found himself human for the nth time, and bored, he eventually thought of the book and the intriguing picture on the cover, retrieved it from its hiding place, and began reading it.
He was about halfway through it when things got interesting and words stopped making sense. These unknown words started cropping up here and there, words that sounded funny, but seemed to be essential parts of the text.
Now curiosity is a funny thing; it can make you put forth more of an effort than you usually would, just to satisfy it. That was how he found himself standing in the high school library -he didn't know if another library existed in town and it was easy enough to pretend to be a student, anyway- looking up unfamiliar, difficult words in a large, dusty dictionary.
The dictionary only served to make things more confusing, as one definition led to another led to another and he eventually asked the sleepy-looking drone behind the desk for assistance. The inquiry led to books about medicine, biology and human reproduction, which led him to only the most clinical, boring understanding of human mating that could possibly exist.
In the end, he came to the conclusion that the book was a waste of time and that the humans were idiots for inferring that he wanted to participate in such activities. After all, neither he nor Inferno had one of the body parts needed for such a thing -- A crucial access port was missing from the equation. Stupid humans.
But...The book had given him some ideas of other less ridiculous things to try out when Inferno was feeling indulgent and agreeable...
Maybe it hadn't been a total loss after all.
PS - I bought a flamingo purse. Pictures will appear on Sunday.