"Are they alive...?"
"They had better be. I'm not quite sure, but I don't think there are any sacrifices foretold in the prophecy."
A shuffling of feet, more soft, deep murmurs... Ryli sat up quickly, a dizzying disorientation possessing her form as she did so. Weird dreams... She wondered if somebody had slipped something into her drink at the gig the night before... Something was definately wrong...
"Oh look. Gmorning, there."
"Who is it...?" She couldn't open her eyes. She had flickered them open for just a moment a second ago and was still seeing spots. "What's going on...?" Her brain tried to pick apart where she was, what she was doing there. She didn't have answers to either question, hardly had an answer to two plus two.
She fell asleep again, the pounding against her skull an inescapable and violent lullaby.
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Artemus furrowed his brows, tail stopping its wag. The pair still refused to regain consciousness enough to carry on a conversation. He had never been one for patience. "Will they be okay?"
"... Probably." Actaeon shrugged after staring at the limp bodies a moment longer. "Maybe the change was too much for them? Human bodies tend to be awfully weak and humans in general seem to be rather resistant to change and slow to adaptation."
"Huh..." Artemus scratched at his head and looked the two over again. One, the one that had called him names, had attained her true form in the shape of a fox- a humanoid body like his own, with a pair of soft, black-tipped ears, and a bushy black-tipped tail. Her fur, her hair, was a light brownish-red, smooth and velvety. The other girl was distinctly feline, still with a humanoid form, but with an added pair of triangular ears and a long, sleek tail. They would be confused when they woke up, probably.
Actaeon made a little aggitated growling noise and sniffed at the air. "They smell strange and human and despite their physical changes, it's obvious they don't belong here... Someone will find them out, if they don't get out of those... Earth things... and into something more fitting for Elle." He gestured to the clothes the girls wore, his nose wrinkling with distaste.
"You could always do it yourself. Get them into something fitting, I mean."
Actaeon's quick bark was defensive, his ears laying low and oddly enough, his cheeks going just a bit pink. "I meant that they need to wake up so they can change themselves." Though Artemus knew exactly what his brother had meant, he enjoyed teasingly exploiting and prodding at his brother's one weakness: females. What were siblings for, if not teasing and poking fun?
"Oh, okay then." Artemus grinned. His brother's ears perked up as he realized his twin had been trying to get a reaction like that on purpose.
"You're an idiot prince, you know that."
"I'm not the one who's so easy to fool. For a stone-faced guard, you're all too easy to undermine."
"Hmph..."
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