Would you be willing to help me with something?
Ulysses was sat in the middle of his newly upgraded hole-in-the-wall, staring pointedly and almost afraid at an array of very oxidized apple slices that were… sitting on the floor. He didn’t have plates. Dust was collecting around him and the slices. He’d clearly been at it for a while.
There was a decent delay between the hearing of the words, the processing of them, and the breaking of prolonged unblinking eye contact from his greatest enemy: food. He looked at the King, processed her presence with all the energy of a small crusty white dog, and seemingly didn’t freak out.
A few seconds passed.
…
AAGH!
He jumped back, feathers puffed up and tail unfurled. As he did, some part of his gangly silhouette caught on something and he somehow tripped backwards while sitting. Combining that with the head rush and dizziness that comes with malnutrition, it meant he hit his head on an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling, let out a strangled squawk, and fell backwards into the wall, where he hit his head again. He put a hand to his head, squinting in pain as he sat in his jumbled, fallen pile.
Ow…














