What's my age again?

[innocent_insanity]

WHO: Baby Kurloz and YOU
TONE: Cute?
RATING: PG-13
WHEN: Morning of 1st
WHERE: School halls, starting around the dungeons
WHAT: Kurloz has been turned into a very young boy - he escapes the Slytherin dorms and wanders around the castle looking for anything he might recognize.
STATUS: ONGOING



Okay, his mam had warned him not to follow strangers since he might wake up somewhere weird someday. 8 year old Kurloz had woken up in the strange green decorated bed in clothes way too big for him and snoozing big boys in the other beds. He'd tried to wear the trousers but they were simply too big so he'd just stuck to the flannel pyjama shirt which draped down to his knees anyway. Who's clothes were these anyway!? The guy must be a giant or something geez. So now Kurloz is creeping around the school hallways, lost and confused, barefooted and just a bit hungry, peering around corners with BIG BAMBI eyes.

Comments

[bundangos]

Usagi see's the big bambi eyes appear around the corner and counters with her own with are joined by a bright smile. She gives him a little wave then bounces over with her flowers. Offering him one right away.

"=Hello="

[innocent_insanity]

Kurloz accepts the flower with a big grin, emerging from around the corner. "Thanks! Um, don't you speak English?"

[bundangos]

She shakes her head after a moment then pinches her fingers a little.

"Chotto!"

She then holds her pinched finger to her eye to look at Kurloz through the small gap between her fingers.

[innocent_insanity]

He grins and thinks for a moment. "Uh... are you lost too?"

[bundangos]

She shakes her head.

"=My parents must have left me here, they're talking to Santa about me I bet="

As she talks she gestures in the right places to try and get the message across.

[innocent_insanity]

"Sahnta? Oh, you mean Santa, that guy what muggles believe brings the presents to kids yeah?"

[bundangos]

Listening carefully, Usagi nods quickly when she hears Kurloz says Santa and Presents.

"Hai!"

[innocent_insanity]

He glances around curiously and asks, "Where's here anyway?"

[bundangos]

[She shrugs. Because she has absolutely no idea.]

=Looks like a castle=

[She nods at her own statement then tries to draw a castle in the air with her finger, aiming for the Disney Castle look.]

[innocent_insanity]

A mountain?

[That's what the drawing looks like to him!]

Huh, I guess wherever this is, it's in the middle of the mountains...

[bundangos]

[She tilts her head at him.]

Maotan?

[She thinks she's telling her that moutain is castle in English]

[innocent_insanity]

Yeah a mountain, like what you climb and stuff! [Shapes out a mountain similar to the Disney Castle Usagi had been drawing in the air.]

[bundangos]

[She shakes her head and giggles]

=Noooo! You can't climb a castle, silly!=

[grandhighwizard]

There's a very, very tall older boy staring at him creepily. He has his hands thrust into his pockets and he's frowning, thick eyebrows drawn in, like he's disapproving of Kurloz or maybe just the situation in general.

[innocent_insanity]

Kurloz just freezes, a deer caught in headlights, and stares up at the teenage Rhys with awe at his height.

"You're a big man bro!"

[grandhighwizard]

" ... yes." Rhys peers at the smaller boy, pushing a hank of unkempt hair out of his face. "And you're very little, brawd bach. Why are you here?"

[innocent_insanity]

"Not sure. Woke up in some other person's clothes and bed." He edges out from around the corner, eyes fixated on Rhys' face. "Where's here anyway? Have you seen me mam?"

[grandhighwizard]

"Hogwarts. You know, the school. And how am I supposed to know if I've seen your mam, how am I to know what she looks like? Does she teach here?" The older boy looks around, like she might be lurking nearby.

[innocent_insanity]

"Oh, that fancy wizarding whatchamacallit place? Mam was a student here when she was a kid and all but she sure isn't a teacher these days," he answers easily, moving just a bit closer to Rhys. "Are you a student here?"

[grandhighwizard]

"Obviously," Rhys says, not really sure what to do about the boy moving closer. He looks maybe his sister's age, perhaps a little older? "Someone must have spelled you here. Myrddin knows why."

[innocent_insanity]

Kurloz pushes some of the hair back from his face and chews on his lower lip. "Who's Myrddin? I thought this might've been a prank by one of the fae again but they've never sent me this far before..."

[grandhighwizard]

"Myrddin! Greatest wizard of all time, don't you know anything, boyo?" Rhys asks impatiently, though the comment about the fae - "You've seen the Twylwth Teg? Really?"

[innocent_insanity]

"I'm only little, haven't had time to know everything yet, deartháir," he answered, sticking his tongue out at the older boy but smiling a bit at least. "I dunno about no Twillie's teg but I play with the Aos Sí that are near my village." He grinned brightly and added, "Them's what taught me how to play the fiddle right, even if mam doesn't believe me."

[grandhighwizard]

"They're the same thing, of course. Your word's just the Irish word for it," Rhys said a little disdainfully. "Fairies. Why wouldn't your mam believe, is she a Muggle or something?"

Of course, plenty of wizards didn't have fairy encounters, either, but Rhys was from an older pureblood family who still left milk and cake out for the bwca on occasion. Not that he'd ever seen them, and he thought maybe they were just wild house elves, anyway.

[innocent_insanity]

"Where's your word from then?" he asked, with all the curiosity of a child and moving closer as if seeing Rhys up close would tell him all his secrets. "No, she's a pureblood, it's just the ones what are close to the village don't usually talk to the people there."

He shrugged and grinned, indigo eyes sparkling with amusement. "It's actually just that they like playing with kids. Well," he paused, correcting himself, "some of them want to play with the adults too but the adults don't want to be rolling with them and making halfbreeds, whatever that all means."