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[winkieprince]

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[incorporealkpryde]

"Okay, you got me there. I did say that." Kitty takes another sip of his drink and almost chokes on it when Fiyero reminds him of his complaints about school being a bore. "I personally don't think school is boring but a lot of it came really easy to me.

"But if I was a full time teacher, I still wouldn't be upset that you called it boring."

[winkieprince]

"Good. I'd hate to upset you," he says genuinely -- though the teasing smile returns pretty quickly. "And I'd hate to have a friend who's easily upset."

Fiyero's always been pretty quick on the draw, and that comes to friends as well. It's not very difficult to earn his affection.

[incorporealkpryde]

“Good thing I’m not easily upset then.” Kitty chuckles softly, shaking his head. “You are an interesting one, Fiyero Tigelaar. I don’t know how you found me in this world but I’m glad for it.”

[winkieprince]

Fiyero grins brightly at the returned friendliness. He really needs friends right now, so from a practical perspective, it's important. But he also likes Kitty so far, and would probably enjoy being friends even if he already had a thousand of them here.

"Oh, you came highly recommended," Fiyero points out. "Pretty accurate descriptions so far, too."

[incorporealkpryde]

Kitty’s expression turns confused then, brow furrowing much the way it had as he’d stared down at the initial texts they’d traded when he wasn’t 100% Fiyero hadn’t been completely messing with him as some kind of prank.

“Wait, by who? What descriptions? I just assumed I was a misdirected text.”

[winkieprince]

Fiyero, meanwhile, had assumed Kitty knew, so he looks briefly confused as well, before he smiles with amusement. It's pretty funny and kind of sweet that Kitty would just accept his invitation without knowing almost anything about him or why Fiyero wrote him.

"Your friend Jubilee gave me your number," he answers. "And spoke rather highly of you, actually."

[incorporealkpryde]

"That little b-word." Lucky he loved her or he'd probably phase her into the wall and leave her there for an hour in retaliation. It was probably also a good thing that he and Fiyero were getting along so well okay it didn't hurt that Fiyero was both funny and attractive too because he'd be really pissed off otherwise. "She didn't tell me she was giving out my number so she better have spoken highly of me."

[winkieprince]

Fiyero grins at Kitty's annoyance at this news, since it doesn't seem to run very deep. (It's also very cute that Kitty seems to censor his swears? He guesses that's a swear.)

"And you came to have a drink anyway," he observes, smiling cleverly as he takes another sip.

[incorporealkpryde]

Kitty's can feel that his brow is furrowed and he huffs a breath out of his nose but it's really hard to stay annoyed with the way Fiyero smiles at him. His smiles are contagious and Kitty is weak.

Shut up.

"What can I say? I was intrigued by the man who travelled through dimensions on a broomstick."

[winkieprince]

"Oh, so you believe me now? What was it that did it -- the outfit?" he asks playfully. He's not sure what else he's done to be convincing.

Speaking of outfit though, he unbuttons and opens his jacket, since it's rather warm in here, revealing his shirt and suspenders underneath. He arrived with both another outer jacket and gloves as part of his uniform, to ward against the cold outside, but they got taken off the moment he sat down.

[incorporealkpryde]

“When did I say I didn’t believe you?” Kitty was pretty sure one of his lasts texts actually confirmed that he believed everything he’d been told by the prince.

Even if the Animals thing was still a little confusing. Did they have… not People-Animals?

“But yes, the outfit kinda sells it. Very… extravagant? That’s probably a good word for it.”

[winkieprince]

"When you thought I was fucking with you," Fiyero points out, clearly not censoring his swears. But true, he seemed to have moved past that towards the end of them writing to each other.

Extravagant is probably accurate. All the gold detailing and buttons and straps. Though now he's opened it up and is slouching against the seat, he looks on the more haphazard side of debonair.

"I don't exactly have much of a wardrobe, seeing as I just got here," he explains.

[incorporealkpryde]

“Okay but that was also when you were going on about hot air balloons and and the geography of Oz so you can understand why that would make no sense to someone who has no idea who you are.”

Seriously, if he didn’t believe Fiyero before, the wardrobe probably would have sold him on the alternate reality thing. “Yeahhhh. We need to get you some jeans.”

[winkieprince]

Fiyero merely grins at Kitty pointing out why it was difficult to believe him.

It is frustrating having to explain all this stuff to people, because he doesn't have a simple satisfying answer like 'I'm from Illinois' (which Fiyero is still pronouncing wrong in his head).

"What are jeans?" he asks with a curious frown.

Yeah, he really is pretty lost around here.

[incorporealkpryde]

Kitty stares blankly at Fiyero for a moment before he arches a brow at him. “You don’t have jeans in Oz? What the heck do you wear then?”

Standing up and sliding out of the booth a bit, Kitty indicates to his jeans. He’s wearing a pair of black jeans that are form fitting around his hips, ass and thighs. “These are jeans. They’re pants made of denim.” He sits back down. “They come in all kinds of styles. These are slim fit.”

[winkieprince]

Fiyero gives him an amused look and just gestures at his own trousers when asked what they wear. There are other fabrics than denim, whatever that is exactly.

They are nice though, and Fiyero definitely checks Kitty the jeans out properly as he stands up. It does look similar to what he's seen around.

"Very fetching. So if I want to blend in a bit more, that's probably a good place to start, huh?"

[incorporealkpryde]

“Jeans, t-shirts, button downs.” Kitty agrees, stretching out in his seat with one arm across the back of the booth and knee up on the seat. “Probably some sweatpants too, for when you’re just lazing about.

“And something is definitely gonna need to be done about ID.”

[winkieprince]

He does not know what a tee-shirt is either, but a button-down at least sounds like something they would have in Oz. 'Sweatpants' have an unpleasant name, but who knows what it means.

Fiyero can't help but smile at the way Kitty is already thinking of ways to help him.

"Yes, that one I have no idea how to fix," he answers. Clothes, he could figure out. Identification is so beyond him for what the rules are, what you need, where he would get it...

[incorporealkpryde]

Kitty smiles at him around his drink. As it became more apparent that Fiyero hadn’t just been messing with him and truly didn’t have any kind of identification, Kitty had given it some thought about what could be done.

“I’ve had some thoughts but I need to talk to some people. Your accent makes things a bit easier to be honest.” Brow furrowing, a new question comes to mind. “Where have you been staying?”

[winkieprince]

Ah yes, he had noticed most people don't sound like him. Accents varied within Oz as well, so it's not too unfamiliar for him.

"With friends. New friends," he answers with a shrug. "Sort of a short term solution."

Fiyero is friendly and chatty, and once he mentioned he didn't have anywhere to stay, there were people who let him sleep on their couch. If it weren't so cold, it would be less of a problem - Fiyero isn't bothered by the outdoors and has slept under the stars. But given the weather, a slightly more stable residence would be preferable.

[incorporealkpryde]

“You’re… staying with random people in New York, in a world you’re not familiar with?” Kitty raises a brow. “Oz is an incredibly safe place, by the sounds of it.”

That was somewhat concerning. What had Jubilee been thinking? Between providing his own number to a perfect stranger and letting him just wonder around in a world he doesn’t know? This was all so weird.

“How long have you been here?”

[winkieprince]

Fiyero quirks his head at the idea of Oz being safe - it's not, but perhaps the dangers are different. But Fiyero is used to being a well-known Prince who everyone would give hospitality to.

At the question of how long he's been here, he has to take a moment to think, squinting a little. "Nine days, I think?" he answers.

Yes, he's quite new. But at least he's been given one of these devices that lets him write to people.

[incorporealkpryde]

“And you’ve just… stayed with random people? This is absolutely not the place for me to explain why there are serious risks doing that but remind me to do that at some point.” Which of course makes what he’s about to say more awkward but what kind of person would he be if he just left Fiyero to keep couch surfing?

“That won’t do. So we have two options. We can get you a hotel or you can come back to the Mansion and take one of those rooms until you find something more permanent. Or as long as you want. Whichever.”

[winkieprince]

"Not random! Just people I haven't known long." Specifically a bunch of drunk college boys who found him delightful and were a lot of fun to party with.

Fiyero has no money to steal, and he can in fact fight. He's tall and can be imposing. He's more of a threat to most people than the opposite, probably, right?

"The people at the Mansion, they're... strange, right?" he asks, not sure how to phrase that exactly.

[incorporealkpryde]

“Fiyero, you have no way of knowing who those people are. People here… sometimes they have really bad intentions.”

It’s not that Kitty doesn’t think Fiyero could handle himself, but in a world he doesn’t know, the level of trust he’s displaying is somewhat frightening.

“Mutants, yeah. People with a mutated gene that has resulted in the development of powers. We’re sometimes referred to as homosuperior.”