Video; UN: Beekeper

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WHO: Julieta Madrigal and you
WHERE: Network
WHEN: Beginning of June
WHAT: One of Julieta's Gacha pulls was animal curse and it can't be controlled when she's emotional. Weeeelll it's been an emotional time for her.
WARNINGS: Swearing in Spanish

[When the video begins, those who have visited Caista will recognize the place where Julieta reigns supreme: the kitchen. That is not what is strange.

No, what is strange is the very beautiful but actually MASSIVE osprey hawk angrily pecking at the phone or attempting to claw it with her talons. The osprey flaps all five feet of her wingspan and screeches and chirps. Those who actually understand animals fluently may come to realize that the hawk is not only speaking in Spanish but, more precisely, swearing in Spanish. The words she uses are enough to make a sailor blush.

What the cherry on this stranger than strange sundae is, is that Julieta is nowhere to be seen as this large bird of prey keeps pecking away at HER phone using HER username.]

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[neverbreaks]

[ It says a lot that Luisa doesn't completely freak out about this turn of events. As it is, she does still somewhat panic, because her mother is a bird.

A really cool-looking bird, sure, but still. ]

Mamá, what - ? [ She cuts off her question, because she realizes that she isn't really going to understand what Julieta is saying right now. She also doesn't really know where her mother is. ]

Where are you right now? [ Even if she can't understand what Julieta is saying, maybe she could show some of her surroundings so Luisa can figure out where she is.

All the while, she's texting Antonio to see if he'd be available to maybe help, because bird. ]

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[Julieta shifts abou Ltd her phone, hopping a but before she gets her beak under it and the camera shows her in the kitchen before it falls back down onto the counter and off her beak. Casita seems to understand perfectly because a tile lifts and holds the phone up before spinning the tile around.

Julieta taps her talon on the counter.]

Video --> Action

[neverbreaks]

[ She takes a moment to look through the camera at the surroundings, but once she recognizes Casita's kitchen she nods, already getting up to make her way there. ]

Okay. I'll be there in a minute.

[ She turns off her phone and heads out of her room, Casita helping her along to get to the kitchen all the quicker, where she finds Julieta - still a bird - waiting on the counter ]

Are you okay, Mamá? I mean, uh... [ Obviously she's not okay, she's a bird! ]

Action; ooof all my typos

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Luisa! Luisa do you know how this happened?! How did I turn into a bird! [She screeches and chirps and pacing along the counter.

How did this happen! She began hopping in place. She couldn't believe this kept happening!]

Haha, no worries!

[neverbreaks]

[ She can only guess that her mother isn't entirely doing great, just based on all the sounds she's making. But eventually she holds up her hands, trying to calm her down. ]

Mamá, wait, I can't...I can't understand you. [ She hates admitting it, but she can't really do anything to help her mother right now. Taking a moment to check her phone, she can't help feeling a bit frustrated that Antonio hasn't gotten back to her yet. But he might be busy, and she doesn't want to pressure him.

So she sends him another message, asking him to check the network when he can before she puts her phone away and looks at Julieta again. ]

Mamá, were you... [ She hesitates a moment, because there isn't too much she could really ask like this. She'd have to keep it to yes or no questions for now. ] You didn't run into anything strange right before, did you?

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[She's freaking out her daughter. That immediately ruffles Julieta's feathers... literally, but not because she's mad at Luisa, but because she's mad at herself. Her daughter is only trying to help. She has to calm down for her daughter's sake. Being angry and upset and scared and PISSED OFF THAT THIS KEPT HAPPENING wasn't helping anyone right now.

She tries to take deep breaths, a difficult task when you have a beak instead of a nose.

At Luisa's question, she pauses. What had she been doing? She shook her head and flew over to the cutting board, pushing some of the vegetables she had been cutting with her beak before flying back to Luisa. Only, flying was a very difficult thing when you weren't actually born a bird and she flopped onto the floor, trying to get herself situated again.]

[neverbreaks]

[ She watches as Julieta flies to the cutting board and the vegetables. When she suddenly lands on the ground, she kneels down beside her and offers her arm for Julieta to perch on. ]

So you were just cutting vegetables, and suddenly you were a bird? [ She didn't really need an answer for that, she could guess that's what her mother means.

Thinking for a moment, she then reaches into her pocket and pulls out her phone again. ] I don't...I don't know if you've seen some of the people on the network, but there have been people that get...strange features sometimes? It can happen randomly, but...

[ She can't think of anything specifically, but she thinks she's seen something like that before. ]

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[Well, admittedly, she was also CRYING while cutting vegetables as she thought about... everything. But she had no proper way to convey that. She chirps and stays on Luisa's arm, resting her head on her daughter's shoulder. She tries to calm down and breathe.

She has spoken to Elliot, and of course, there were her daughters...

A small sad chirp came from her beak. How was she going to take care of the family like this? How did she change back?]

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa frowns deeply, and reaches up with her free hand to stroke through some of her mother's feathers. She wants so badly to help, but she isn't sure there's really much she can do right now. ]

...you know, Mamá...when Mira first got, uh, cursed with her wolf form? She was stuck that way for a little while, but she learned to control it eventually, and now she can change back and forth at will. So maybe you can do that too.

[ And she knows it's not much of a comfort. But at the moment, it's all she's got. ]

[pan_acea]

[If she could be honest, she didn't want another gift... or curse. But it seems she doesn't get a say... Again. So... she supposes she must learn to control it. There is no other choice. She cannot turn into a bird in the middle of helping a guest at the restaurant or visiting the high school for a concert. She takes a deep breath.

Alright, calm down. This all happened because she was crying. So... she has to calm down. She can't get emotional... lovely. Pepa says clear skies... alright... so... clear head, clear head.

There's no pop or puff of smoke or any pain. One minute, Julieta is a bird, the next? She's back to being a woman.]

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa can't help jumping just a bit at the sudden reappearance of her mother. She figured that her mother would be able to figure out how to control it, but she hadn't expected it quite so soon.

Still she smiles and wraps Julieta in a big hug. ] Oh, Mamá! You did it!

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Ah! [She doesn't know how that even worked, but here she is, she touches her hair, her face, her shoulders, and hips. She doesn't feel any feathers or talons or... she touches her nose. No, no beak. She hugs her daughter back tightly.]

Not without your help, mi vida.

[neverbreaks]

[ She laughs just a bit, pulling back just a bit from the hug to look her mother over, just to make sure she was fully back to normal. At least for now. ]

I didn't do all that much, Mamá. It was mostly you.

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[She shook her head, pushing some of Luisa's hair from her face.] No, mija, without your support, without your presence, I'd still be a bird. I was a bird for much longer than the video.

[neverbreaks]

[ That has Luisa frowning a bit, a worried expression on her face. ] Do you know how long you were a bird?

[pan_acea]

[She moves over to her stew cooking over the small flame and stirred it, pulling out a piece of meat and tearing it open, it was mostly cooked all the way through with only a little of pink in the middle.]

At least an hour and a half since this isn't falling apart like it should be. [She popped it into her mouth and then sipped the broth.] The broth is still rather flavorless too.

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa draws up a little bit, and for a moment she isn't really sure what to say. She doesn't think Julieta means it this way, but her tone suddenly sounds oddly...dismissive?

It's...strange, hearing it coming from her mother. ]

...Mamá?

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[She never meant it to be dismissive, her mind is churning, trying to narrow down everything that could have caused the problem and so her mind is in two places. She looks away from the stew and over to Luisa, smiling at her daughter.]

Yes, mijita?

[neverbreaks]

[ Luisa still can't help feeling a bit worried. Not only about the situation in general, but...she's worried about how Julieta is feeling, what she's thinking, because she doesn't actually know. She can only guess that her mother is worried and upset about having suddenly been turned into a bird, but she doesn't seem to be showing any of it, and maybe is trying not to?

How much did she actually know what was going on in her mother's head? ]

...What...What were you thinking about...before you turned into a bird?