3 ♊ Take your dark days

[iitrebel]

Who: Artolo Apemis and any Pride who will put up with him for an extended period of time
What: Art is going lion shopping. This is not slang of any sort. You've been invited.
When: Throughout the day of February 11th
Where: Roman's Animal Sanctuary
Warnings: None planned. Feel free to treat this as a mingle log

For there to be any extended space in Vista City, things tend to be... crowded. It's the obvious solution when a city gets big enough. Roman's Animal Sanctuary has the delightful honor of having established a space the size of a baseball field some time before the city swallowed it up. The problem became when they needed to expand, but simply couldn't.

The solution: Get with the times and build upwards.

With high ceilings on all floors meant to cycle through different times of day in accordance with actual daytime, enormous windows, and certain measures taken to mimic appropriate weather, Roman's is half a zoo (to help fund its upkeep) besides just being an animal sanctuary for various abused or abandoned animals of the more exotic sort.

This includes lions.

Coincidentally, lions are why you're here.

Somehow, one Artolo Apemis has invited you to go what he called "lion shopping" and that, as it turns out, is not slang even remotely. Roman's been alerted of this high profile visit from a bunch of Pride jackasses, and is more than happy to allow the musicians to check out some of the staff areas behind the scenes instead of just being stuck in the public areas. Yes, you can feed the publicly approved llamas and goats plus large animals with sharp teeth. Under strict supervision, of course.

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[cleartranquil]

[Yuffie, of course, is completely ignoring his distress. She pulls the bird closer to the fence so she can get a foot up on it, all the while still trying to keep the bird calm. It's starting to get a little unsettled, but she's not too worried. Not really.]

Heey. Heeeeey girl. You're okay.

[She continues talking calmly to it as she hooks her foot up, and then she says something indistinguishable about a saddle before dropping down onto it's back. She resettles her legs under the wings just in time for it to take off, darting forward in surprise because of it's passenger, Yuffie whooping in delight the entire time.]

[traumatizing]

[Terry pulls back a little when she has the bird near the fence and makes an incredibly undignified noise of distress when it takes off. How can this just be okay? Hasn't she seen these things? Nope nope no nope.]

Alright, come on. [It's probably hard to speak with any authority when he has his legs pulled up as high as possible without falling off the fence, but he's gonna try anyway.] That's enough, right?

[cleartranquil]

[ Yuffie's cackling and has her grip on the back of the bird's shoulders, just behind the wings, trying not to injure it by twisting feathers in the wrong way. She lets out another shriek of happiness before turning and sticking her tongue out at Terry. ]

Oh hush you big worry-WOAH!

[Of course, this particular bird is not really meant for long term riding, so this is about the point Yuffie goes flying off the back of it. The bird just keeps on running, and then there's Yuffie laying back in the grass, laughing her ass off at her own failure.

Sure, that kinda hurt, but totally was worth it.]

[traumatizing]

Yuffie!

[Terrifying giant birds be damned, when Yuffie goes flying he leaps off the fence and runs over to her. And then punches her shoulder when he realises she's laughing.]

Jesus christ!

[cleartranquil]

[Yuffie is just continuing to laugh, even though she fights him off with both hands just attempting to slap in his vague direction so he wont hit her again.]

That was so awesome!

[Yuffie looks ridiculously happy all things considered, when she finally sits up, though she does have grass in her hair and is probably going to be sore later.]

Ya know, you should totally try!

[traumatizing]

No. No way.

[He picks a blade of grass out of her hair and frowns at it.]

You couldn't pay me enough to do it.

[cleartranquil]

[ Yuffie seems to debate that. Is there some bribe she can think of? She's got nothing.

After a moment, her grin grows and goes sharp around the edges. ]

Scared ya, didn't I?

[traumatizing]

Yes! [This time she's getting shoved.] Ugh, you're an asshole.

[cleartranquil]

[She lets him shove her over into the grass again, and Yuffie cackles obnoxiously. ]

I am the most amazing girl you know!

[She sticks out her tongue at him again, now that she's not on a bird and can do it without threat of actual personal injury.]

That was the best.

[traumatizing]

Amazingly annoying.

[He huffs and looks around. One of the birds seems to be kind of curious about these two strange animals in the enclosure and Terry's response to this is to shuffle a little closer to Yuffie. Not that he's scared or anything. That would be ridiculous. Ha ha ha.]

Can we get out of here?