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Recent content by Chibi Pika

  1. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    More strange words in her head, more psychic impressions of the abstract meaning to go with it. It was a weird way to hold a conversation, but it seemed to be working well enough, at least. Summon. Betel's body. Saw what? Jade exhaled, running a paw along one of the corners of the Porygon...
  2. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Jade slid down from the tree and landed clumsily in a patch of ferns as the two chimeras came trotting over, followed by Leaf and a small, round bird. Gladion called out what sounded like a greeting and then another telepathic voice filled Jade's head. She was just about to ask why the...
  3. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Jade jolted mid-step. She'd been in the middle of trying to push Betel's inert body onto the palm leaf she'd grabbed, to use it as a makeshift sled, when a sudden telepathic voice echoed in her brain. Wait... telepathic? Did that mean—? I'm here! she thought back. Seconds passed. Nothing...
  4. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Virga darted through the garden, still unused to this body's rapid-fire wingbeats, nothing like the broad soaring wings she was used to. (At least the cursed beetle had given her a flighted form.) She didn't know what she was searching for, but the pull was distinctly stronger in some...
  5. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Jade scrambled through the ferns over to the angular, bird-like construct lying on its side, eyes blank. "Betel?" she whispered, voice hitching in her throat. She put her paws to the Porygon's side, wiping a bit of humidity from the faceted surface, but there was no response. 'Betel, are you...
  6. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Virga’s gaze was still fixed deep into the overgrown tropical foliage. “No. No, I don’t believe it’s an omen of danger…” Not that she wanted to disregard the possibility of danger in this so-called dungeon, especially while trapped in this form. But whatever had specifically caught her attention...
  7. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Somewhere else... Jade wasn't entirely sure how long she'd spent drifting through a hazy nothingness on the borderline of consciousness. Even as she gradually became more aware of the passage of time and the existence of her own thoughts, the idea of doing anything felt next to impossible...
  8. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Virga squinted at Nova and Leaf as their expressions shifted subtly with the telltale sign of one conversing psychically. But before she could say anything, there was a rustle of foliage behind her. The Rookidee spun around to see another chimera joining them in the tile clearing as though...
  9. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Leaf's response came across hesitant, and uncertain, which Virga took to mean that these other 'offworlders' might be anywhere, and that the three of them awakening in close proximity was through pure chance. Wonderful. "Well then, we must find a way to leave this place, so that we might locate...
  10. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    So it was as Virga had suspected—Leaf was human. She didn't know what to make of this information, much less the rest. Some kind of... shelled insect had called the others here... but may or may not have been the same individual responsible for her own calling. But if so, then they were...
  11. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Virga's feathers bristled slightly. Admitting to having fallen so far would almost be more humiliating than being in this form in the first place. What good was claiming the status of a guardian without the strength to back the words? "No, this species is unfamiliar to me," Virga said, "but I...
  12. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Oh, now the chimera deigned to speak with actual specificity the moment he was speaking to someone else. ('He probably didn't mean it as an insult,' is what the girl would have said, but she was not here, and Virga was left feeling vaguely offended with no way of meaningfully conveying so in...
  13. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    'Dungeon core'... this term held no meaning for Virga, but allegedly was the garden's sole exit. "Seeing what's outside should be trivial," Virga said, taking wing. The sooner she could get a read on where this exit was located, the sooner they could leave. (As for where to go afterward, that...
  14. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Rookidee squinted at the chimera. What an utterly unhelpful response—answer a question by presenting a dozen more questions, forcing the listener to painstakingly voice each question aloud. "Are you normally this obscure?" the bird snapped. It felt the instinct to draw itself taller, except...
  15. Chibi Pika

    Walled Gardens

    Rookidee let out a dismissive snort, but the sound came out as a low, trilling chirp. Yet another annoying detail among many. "Your associates refer to you as such, do they? How modest." 'A' Silvally was the standout detail, however. Whatever strange sort of hybrid he was, he was not unique...
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