In terms of weird shit he’d been through, waking up from a nap in the body of a pigeon ranked pretty high. Up at the top, even, but here was the thing–he didn’t completely mind? Sure, if he’d been given his pick of animals to spend the day as, he probably would have picked something cooler–a tiger, or a big dog, maybe a snake, and in terms of birds, really he was more of a magpie, what with the trinkets, and the sparkles, but–there was nothing wrong with pigeons. People were always on about flying rats, but they were adaptable, is what they were, and sort of pretty, and they did blend in, which was sort of his thing, so…
Anyway, the point was, once he’d got over the initial shock, it wasn’t so bad. He could see better, for one thing, and he could fly, albeit clumsily–he’d wrecked his bedroom crashing into things before he managed to get out the open window and then, well–it wasn’t just Noah going through some weird shit. It was the whole city.
Which was why, he supposed, when he hopped into a bar behind a patron with thumbs, he was not immediately shooed out. He hadn’t come in with any purpose. ‘It seemed funny at the time’ was as good a reason to do something as any, as far as Noah was concerned, and it seemed even funnier when he spotted, with his new pigeon-vision, a monkey working the bar.
“Talking pigeon walks into a bar,” he said to himself, clumsily taking off and alighting once more, this time on top of the bartending monkey’s head. “Barkeep, a thimble of your finest–can pigeons drink alcohol? If I drink, will I die? Make it Wild Turkey then, at least if I go out, it’ll be funny. You know. Cause birds.”
FaBi was unimpressed. Even after being reassured the change would likely only be temporary, she was fuming mad that she’d been forced into public at all. If it weren’t for the potential loss of the income that paid for both her schooling and her lifestyle, she would have hidden away in her apartment and drank the days away until she was back to her fabulous self. Once all this fuckery was over and done with, she made a note to renegotiate her deal with the owner. The way she saw it, forced humiliation deserved financial compensation. Otherwise she’d take her abilities elsewhere. So she wasn’t in the best of moods already.
Then a fucking pigeon decided to land on her head.
“You ain’t getting dick until you get off of my bald fucking head,” she growled, one lumbering swipe attempted to get the damn talking bird off of her. Fucking Pansaw. This shit never happened in Idaho. It was almost enough to make her miss home. Almost. “I already look hideous, am being forced to be in public looking like this. I’m not adding bird shit on top of that list of ‘shit that’s fucked up’ and ‘why I’m fucking pissed.’“