taxonomites | [Visual+Text | Location: anywhere around Taxon

Kitten had hesitated to visit the zoo. For anyone who can understand the speech of animals, zoos are exceedingly unhappy places unless they are constructed with the animals' natural habitats in mind. She is relatively pleasantly surprised by Taxon's zoo, but then, she supposes that the aliens are used to adding amenities to their prisons.

Then she reaches a section that makes her skin crawl in the same way Ozorne's menagerie had. Unicorns. Not killer unicorns, even, but their far from malicious cousins. Winged apes not in league to anyone and wishing to fly free.

Kitten screeches. She holds back just long enough to listen to the creatures for a moment, to get a clearer idea of whether they would be peaceful when released. As soon as she is satisfied they will be, Kitten takes action.

With a low croak, she shatters the locks on their cages, the entrances to their enclosures swinging open.

Unicorns and flying monkeys flee from their prisons-within-the-prison, free to at least travel the larger enclousure of the city itself. And then, to protect her new acquaintances, Kitten turns to the tablet.

She slowly types a message, switches to visual mode long enough to whistle for everyone's attention, then transmits what she has to say.

I am aware that many of you will be concerned at the appearance of winged monkeys in the skies of Taxon, considering recent events. Be advised that those currently flying throughout the city are not in service to anyone. They have no desire to harm humans, and should you attack them unprovoked, I will see it as an attack on an innocent and respond accordingly. It is bad enough that we are all trapped within the large prison of the city. I see no need to leave magical creatures imprisoned in an even smaller cage, not unless they are a threat to others present here. Neither the unicorns nor the winged apes released today should pose such a threat.

((OOC: Feel free to use this as a party style post! Tag each other, encounter the newly released creatures around the city, respond to Kitten's network post, have fun finding out that you can't get near the unicorns unless you're a virgin, etc.))

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"Huh. I didn't even think about these guys trampling anything."

It was something to consider now. With a shrug, Ashley stashed one of her tranq guns. The unicorn was just so pretty. She kind of wanted to see if she could get close to it before she tranqed it. Or maybe she could just teleport it out without tranqing it. Worth a shot.

"I'm on round-up duty," she answered, slowly making her way closer to the thing. It swished its tail at her, but didn't respond to her movements otherwise. An ear flicked as she approached and soon enough, she was reaching out to touch it. "I might be able to just take this one home without knocking it out. You wanna come, too?"

She figured he might want to see what she was doing with the thing that tried to destroy his garden.

"Sure. It doesn't seem to like me as well as it does you, though." And sure enough, as soon as Briar rose and approached, the unicorn shied away from Briar, moving away from Ashley in the process.

"See?" Briar said. "I'm not sure why. I didn't do anything to it when I was shooing it out of the garden. Just walked toward it; it didn't want me getting close."

Briar stopped, letting Ashley approach the unicorn on her own again. "Why are you on round-up duty, anyway?"

"Well, crap." Ashley made a face, groaning as the abnormal ducked out of her grasp when Briar approached. "I really don't want to have to tranq you, too, dude. This gun is almost out of tranq rounds."

She was refusing to use anything else on the things, even if she had a stunner with her, too. Sighing, she kept her gun lowered and cautiously approached it, ready to lift her arm and hit it with a round or two if she had to. The thing stood still, even when she reached it again and lifted her free hand to grasp its mane tightly to keep it in place.

"It's-" How to explain what she and her mom did. "It's what I grew up doing, helping abnormals like this one. My mom runs a Sanctuary for them. If she were still here, I'd be able to take them there so they couldn't be hurt or hurt anyone else. She'd be able to take care of them, give them a home that wasn't a prison and everyone would be happy."

Or at least, she could hope the little dragon would be happy with that, but at this point she had no idea.

"I don't want anyone getting hurt because of some stupid miscommunication between these guys and the rest of the Taxon population."

"Tranquilizers? How are you administering them?" Because Briar's world lacks guns, but it does not lack for magic or medicine. Especially not when you're talking to a medicine-maker.

"Abnormals?" he asks, raising an eyebrow. "Ah, your mom's one of the ones who brought a whole building along with her, huh? Now I wish I'd gotten to visit it. That sounds like something to see."

He looks at the horse with a horn again, wondering if anything is odd about the creature other than the horn on its head and the way its beauty was almost otherworldly. "What sort of miscommunication are you anticipating, then?" Ashley is on much more solid ground than Briar is right now, so he'll ask questions and let her handle things. He is genuinely curious, when it comes down to it.

Of course, right now he wants to know if the unicorn really does have a problem with him. He steps forward again, and the unicorn shies like a skittish horse. "Yep. He does not like me one bit."

"With this," Ashley answers, shaking the hand holding her gun. "Does your world not have guns?" Not that she'll be very surprised. They don't seem to be a constant among everyone's worlds, oddly enough.

"It's... a long story. Take a rain check and I'll tell you later." Too long a story for now. Ashley huffs out a breath of frustration as the unicorn darts out of her grip again. "Oh come on. Stand still!" She doesn't really want to shoot it if she doesn't have to, but if it keeps this up, she may not have much of a choice.

"My mom's work deals with things like this. We protect creatures like this from humans and vice versa. A lot of differences come up because humans don't understand the place these creatures play in our world, or that they actually live and breathe and feel the way we do. They just can't express it the same way. You should see some of the dangerous ones we've faced."

In essence, what Ashley is preaching is inter-species equality and understanding. It's something her mother drilled into her head from an early age.

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[Location: Briar's House] (♥ :3)

[Location: Briar's House]

[Location: Briar's House]

[Location: Briar's House]

[Location: Briar's House]