Bird, bird, bird

[not_a_possum]

WHO: Moxxie, Hunter and Luz
WHERE: Moxxie's apartment
WHEN: During the week where they have to take care of baby birds
WHAT: Moxxie fails horribly at being an adult chaperone for Luz and Hunter while they take care of baby birds
WARNINGS: Terrible animal husbandry (the birds are fine)


So...this whole taking care of baby birds thing wasn't going as well as Moxxie had hoped. He'd seen the opportunities to do odd jobs for money and figured that was just what he needed to start getting some income he could live off of again. He'd been doing a great job taking care of his surprise cat, Blitz (who he's keeping in the bedroom for this week), so he figured some baby birds would be a piece of cake. Just feed them every two hours, keep the cat away, and other than that everything was fine.

He'd been so wrong.

Not only were they panicking whenever they saw him, one of the birds was apparently not a bird, and kept disappearing and shape shifting into different things around the apartment, and he's been having a hell of a time trying to catch it. Since the birds are too frightened to even try to eat, Moxxie decided to stay out of the way and focus on putting his excellent cooking skills to work and make some lasagna for the kids. It's now cooling on the stove, and he figures he'll go ahead and bring it in once it's ready for them to eat.

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[cardinalrule]

For a few seconds Hunter thinks things might be improving, but then the noise in the other room starts up and suddenly a purple blob is bursting onto the scene. Moxxie is following closely, and for a split second Hunter thinks he's about to crash into him - he instinctively raises the birds in his hands up, inwardly cursing not having a hand free to grab Flapjack -

Aaaand Moxxie comes skidding to a stop at his feet. Crisis averted? Where did that blob go? Does it even matter, when he hears that they have officially failed the mission. Great, great, for someone like Hunter who bases his entire value on this kind of thing it's a huge blow. "Fantastic," he says frustratedly. "We should just watch the birds and try to not make things worse."

[not_a_possum]

"Right. And I'll...uh... step out of the kitchen since I don't really know where the ditto went."

He's glad at least that Luz doesn't seem too bothered by this news, although he can tell Hunter is and he feels terrible about that. Especially since they'd actually been doing pretty well until Moxxie knocked over the lasagna, and from there he just made things worse. The kids would have done better if he'd never gotten involved.

Heading out of the kitchen so he wouldn't spook the birds anymore, Moxxie goes back to looking for anything that shouldn't be where it is, since for all he knows, anything could be the ditto.

[a_cute_batata]

To Luz, it wasn't about the "mission" as much as it was about the birds: they had to be kept safe. She knew it wasn't Moxxie's fault, he'd been doing his best, but the birds had honestly been too upset by his presence.

Add a strange purple blob to the mix and well. Recipe for disaster,

"Let's put them in the nest now, get them to calm down," Luz said softly. "We'll keep them warm and comfortable, and the authorities can handle the rest. For now, let's just keep our voice low so we don't startle them anymore."

She settled the nest down gently for Hunter to put the birds down.

"We tried," she said, quietly as she could. "Who knew there was going to be a mimicking monster joining us? That sounds like something straight out of the Boiling Isles."

Or a sitcom, really.
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[cardinalrule]

Hunter will set the birds back down in the next, trying to focus on that. Trying to focus on not making things worse, because with how the day is going that's probably going to happen.

Hopefully Moxxie will run into the blob or something, and grab it. That would help.

"If we were in the Boiling Isles we would've had caretakers from the Beast Keeping Coven dealing with these, instead a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing," he replies bluntly. "This is their specialty, not ours."

[not_a_possum]

"Now where is that stupid purple blob?" he asks himself.

He continues to grumble as he looks through the apartment, knowing there's a good chance that it's hiding as something in the kitchen, but he won't be able to check that until the birds weren't there.

[a_cute_batata]

"I mean, we ARE going to have specialists coming to know how to deal with these birds better than us, but that's not what I meant. In my world, finding baby birds with no mom around would be bad enough, with all the care you have to take. But throw in a mimicking purple monster, and you pretty much have a day in the Boiling Isles!"

Luz gave a chuckle, still keeping her voice down.

"I really miss it though. Never thought I'd miss seeing a decaying skeleton in the distance, but it felt comforting. This place could use some of that."

Luz looked over at Moxxie and mouthed I believe in you! This had to be pretty frustrating for him most of all.