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[personal profile] canadese 2016-12-19 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[It's become routine, visiting Marco whenever Ax comes to earth for some diplomatic reason or another. A ritual, almost. As reluctant as Ax is to admit it, it's a touchstone of familiarity that he can't get even on the Andalite homeworld. Years ago, he'd have been incredulous at the idea that he could feel like a stranger in the culture he was born into, in favor of Earth. Just look at him now.

Being an Animorph has its advantages: their usual strategy is not for Ax to use the front door--his human morph is too recognizable, and Marco's house is always surrounded by paparazzi--but for Ax to morph some species of bird, arrive quietly, and then alert Marco to his presence in private thought-speak. Not northern harrier--like his human morph, it's too recognizable for stealth anymore. Today it's a common sparrow he acquired several months ago, and the relative anonymity of it doesn't do much to calm his paranoia on the way.

He alights on a second-story window, shuffles for an amount of time to seem plausibly like a natural bird, and then finally calls out.]


<Marco, it's me.>
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[personal profile] canadese 2016-12-30 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[The benefit of being able to use thought-speak naturally is Ax doesn't have to wait until he's fully demorphed to chastise Marco. Which he does, as soon as he sees the wine bottle for what it is.]

<You've been drinking alcohol.>

[It's not a question. This isn't the first time Ax has arrived late to Marco's one-person house party. And every time he's radiated the same disapproval.

He knows that whatever effects alcohol has on humans will go away once Marco morphs. And if he's honest, his own sense of self-preservation has been diminished for the same reason, though in manifests in different ways. But there's still something disquieting about it. Ax doesn't know how to deal with this new status quo of everybody seeming about to crumble without the war to support them, of nobody knowing how to look each other in the eye anymore.

Except for him and Marco.

He finishes demorphing and keeps his distance, rather than accepting Marco's clear invitation. Then he waits, silently.]
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[personal profile] canadese 2017-02-11 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Despite his own misgivings, as soon as he's demorphed he immediately begins transforming to human. If Marco is doing to be like this, Ax may as well join in.

This doesn't stop him from frowning at Marco as soon as he has a mouth.]


Of the times I have visited one of your residences, you have already been drinking 46.3% of the time.

[As soon as he has developed a recognizably human body type, he sits down on the bed next to Marco, and takes the bottle for himself. Such is their ritual.]

This isn't considered healthy behavior, is it?