Yes. It's inconvenient, but we've had worse. I think you're a fox. Or a wolf, perhaps, I don't know if foxes can be black. I might not be the exact person to ask, I've never been good with animals.
Ahh. [Fox or wolf. CLU can recognize the User terms on a superficial level, but the labels are mostly meaningless to a computer program with no prior experience with animals.]
Incredibly inconvenient. [And what can be worse--or more irritating--than being small and fluffy and unable to properly use his hands.] What have other floods done to make them worse?
[Rinzler had spent considerable time cloistered in his room--after ascertaining he could still prop the door open--figuring out exactly how his new wings worked and monitoring traffic on the network as the Barge's population responded to the indignities of the latest flood. None of it (save one) required his particular attention or energies so he hadn't bothered joining the awkward replies and cries for help cluttering the network, content instead to practice flying and brood over his next actions.
And then CLU had spoken up and it was, abruptly, time to go.
So here's a great red and brown hawk swooping into the level four common room, alighting on the back of a chair and ruffling all of his feathers before slicking them down again. That fox has to be around here somewhere...]
[After completing another circuit round the room, CLU pads around a couch and comes across Rinzler. He immediately stops in his tracks, both ears attentively pricked towards the hawk that's invaded his 'territory', tail tip twitching back and forth with some aggression. Foxes are generally wary by nature, and it's been a maddening battle so far to shove its instincts from his thoughts and act relatively normal.
He hasn't eaten yet, either, and the urge to go off and scavenge for some small rodent or bird is nearly intolerable.
[The hawk is most assuredly a hawk, but that's Rinzler's voice. And it's somehow the Security Program's bow when the bird stretches out one wing and ducks his head politely to the fox.]
The fox's body language shifts, his posture relaxes. Of all the Barge residents, this is definitely the one that he'd wanted to come across most.
CLU casually strolls over to a chair nearest to the hawk, then hops onto it so the two are closer to eye-level. He takes a moment to investigate the bird--with all its feathery differences to his own form--then sits back on his haunches.]
The flood turned you too. [His try at a faint smirk looks more like the fox is baring his sharp little teeth than anything else.] And not in the same way.
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So I'm forced to spend the next few days like this.
[Then his tone sounds puzzled, if not slightly disconcerted.]
...What am I, exactly?
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Incredibly inconvenient. [And what can be worse--or more irritating--than being small and fluffy and unable to properly use his hands.] What have other floods done to make them worse?
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And then CLU had spoken up and it was, abruptly, time to go.
So here's a great red and brown hawk swooping into the level four common room, alighting on the back of a chair and ruffling all of his feathers before slicking them down again. That fox has to be around here somewhere...]
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He hasn't eaten yet, either, and the urge to go off and scavenge for some small rodent or bird is nearly intolerable.
One ear flicks back.]
Who are you.
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[The hawk is most assuredly a hawk, but that's Rinzler's voice. And it's somehow the Security Program's bow when the bird stretches out one wing and ducks his head politely to the fox.]
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The fox's body language shifts, his posture relaxes. Of all the Barge residents, this is definitely the one that he'd wanted to come across most.
CLU casually strolls over to a chair nearest to the hawk, then hops onto it so the two are closer to eye-level. He takes a moment to investigate the bird--with all its feathery differences to his own form--then sits back on his haunches.]
The flood turned you too. [His try at a faint smirk looks more like the fox is baring his sharp little teeth than anything else.] And not in the same way.
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