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The Perk - Monday morning.

Fenris was stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the weather. He went out in normal clothing, no appropriate outerwear. He conceded that shoes were necessary and grumblingly wore those.

The intent was to go for a walk. That intent didn't last very long. He ducked into the Perk and ordered a large black coffee.

Letting his hands wrap around the mug to warm them up, he eyed the weather outside balefully. Sizing it up as though figuring out where its weak point was so he could kick it there.

It was that kind of day.

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"When you're walking down the street? Yeah, kinda," Norman replied, blinking back at him. And then he paused a moment, and added with a sigh, "So is trying to break into the clothing shop that is right there so that you don't have to keep being naked in public."

Damned if you did...

"That is good to know," Fenris said and drank some coffee. Not that he planned to ever be naked in public, but things with the island being what they were..

Well, he could always just phase through a building until he found some clothes.

"Are there not.." He waved a hand about airily, "..phones about?"

"Most people have cell phones," Norman replied. "They've kind of been phasing payphones out of use for years now, and I didn't exactly have money on me, either. Finding a phone to use for free is tricky if you don't have a cell."

Or didn't want to just saunter up to somebody while nude.

"Ah," said Fenris in the tone of a man who had no idea phones weren't just kind of vaguely 'around'. "I suppose that would present difficulty."

He glanced curiously at Norman. "What were you doing out and about as a crab anyway?"

"I had eight legs," Norman replied, feeling maybe the tiniest bit called out and dipping a finger in his whipped cream, suddenly really interested in that. "I was stretching them. Going for a walk. To the beach."

It had seemed like a great idea at the time, okay?

"So there's an instinct component to it," Fenris mused, "Interesting. Being a small, edible sea creature and walking down to the ocean with all its predators - not to mention just the journey there, with the seagulls flying around - didn't seem an entirely rational way to occupy your time."

"Yeah, rationality didn't really occur to me at the time," Norman muttered. "Wasn't thinking much about what would happen if I turned back along the way, either."

But now he was kind of quietly horrified about what it would've been like to get eaten by anything from a seagull to a gremlin.

Nope nope nope...

"Did your friends not..watch you?" Fenris asked. Children normally had friends, right? Humans had friends. "Though I suppose animal wiles must be accounted for. My own roommate snuck out of the hotel and made it to his job. In the cold, across the ground. Then he tried to bartend."

With no hands.

Which Tino wasn't letting him live down.

Fenris was amused by that.

"Sidon was doing a great job," Norman agreed, nodding, "but yeah, I was small, and Sidon... is not small. It was pretty easy to slip through a door when he wasn't looking."

In hindsight, now he was kind of worried that maybe he'd worried Sidon by disappearing.

Worrying your roommate was a terrible thing to do.

Fjord.

"I suppose it could have been worse," said the guy who hadn't randomly transformed into a naked human on a public street. "At least they only arrested you."

At least Sidon wasn't Norman's roommate?

"I... I mean, yeah, I didn't exactly resist arrest," Norman replied, grimacing. Being tasered and handcuffed while naked didn't seem like a great time.

"Where I'm from, there are much stricter penalties for attempted thievery," Fenris noted without going into specifics, "It encourages thieves to be very skilled, or they don't stay thieves for long."

Hard to pick locks with only one hand..

Norman was pausing to picture the possibilities for a moment.

"... I really like Fandom for that reason," he decided.

Irritated as he was about where he'd turned back, all the same.

"For the thieves?" Fenris teased.

"For the fact that I basically got let off with a slap on the wrist and a call to my parents," Norman replied, smiling awkwardly. "I don't think I've had any problems with thieves yet."

"Both of those are good, yes," Fenris noted with mild amusement.

"I mean, comparatively," Norman muttered. And then nudged his pastry box toward Fenris. "Want one?"

He had too many.

Far be it from Fenris to turn down free food. He selected a muffin. "Thank you."

He glanced at the box, "Are you having a party?"

Norman also looked down at the box.

And he sighed.

"No. I just said, 'one of each,' and, to my surprise, I wound up with one of each."

He wasn't admitting to being distracted by a gremlin that had been dead for ages.

Fenris blinked at him. "Er. So. Will you bring them around to friends or..?"

Norman didn't seem the type to sit down and eat an entire box of pastries.

"Yeah," Norman replied, grimacing down at the box. "I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to do."

While feeling very, very silly about it.

"Is there some ..holiday.. you could use as an excuse?" Look, this planet had so many holidays. He couldn't be sure there wasn't one.

Norman looked mildly dubious.

"Happy... day after Veterans Day? Have a pastry?"

"You could make one up?" Fenris suggested.

"Happy 'Norman panicked and now has too many pastries day,'" Norman suggested.

At least it was true.

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