Snack Talk [Kuzi]

There are a few advantages of being a small, weak, helpless creature that everyone finds annoying and tends to ignore. Though, there are many, many more disadvantages to such a position. One was quite apparent at this very moment, it seemed as though none of the passerbyers were particularly friendly on this particular day. Which was a shame because he only needed one person for just a moment to help him out. As stated before, there are disadvantages to being small and weak. Most are obvious and anyone would recognize, understand or be able to think about themselves if asked the question. Though there were always more hidden ones that people didn't consider and were still, quite frankly, just as annoying. Such as building your fancy restaurant with the only entrance being a big heavy door that despite giving his best efforts just a moment prior, refused to budge for the pink fluff. Though with no one stopping outside to help him open the door... Perhaps he could get help another way?

Giving one last attempt of his own to shove all his body weight behind pushing the door open and ending up only getting himself out of breath, Kuzi resorted to his plan of head-butting the door in a sort of knock to try and gain the attention of someone inside. Though, with how busy it looked in there and with most people in groups talking away and eating... Maybe this wouldn't work out either. "Sigh..."

With one last bash of his head, Kuzi would give up and rest his now slightly hurting forehead against the glass of the door in defeat. Though his defeat didn't last long as he suddenly fell forwards as his headrest disappeared with the door swinging open. Shaking himself off and getting back up quickly as if nothing had ever gone wrong, the small fluff would look up to whom had been so kind to open the door for him. More expecting it was someone just leaving and actually looking if there was a sudden foot that was about to crush him had they not noticed him. Yet he was pleasantly surprised with what he saw. "Horny!" He'd shout excitedly as he dashed inside to make sure if the door closed again he was actually one the inside this time. (He'd worry about getting back out later, pulling a door open was even harder!)

"I'm surprised to see you here, didn't think I'd run into you again with how big this city is and how little I am. How'd you get on after that whole water, dragon, demon, scary thing of death... Thing? I managed to find my friends I was looking for, luckily they were all okay. Not mutants nor mutant food which, ya know... Is a positive, heh. How about you? Been well? You just got here or were you about to leave? Where were you sitting? Damn it's pretty busy in here today, huh? I wonder if there are any free tables left for me. Hmm... Or if they even have like, a special table or seat for someone like me to use? I've actually never been here before myself, just heard about it a lot and well. Again after the whole mess last week, decided to treat myself! I wanted to check this place out at least once before I end up dying or the place closes down or whatever. So, here I am!" The pink fluff would rant on, talking at an impressively loud volume to talk over all the noise of the place for a creature so small. He'd rub his nose slightly with one paw as he took a pause from talking though. All the wondrous smells in here were really getting to him, he could feel himself wanting to salivate already.

Good, good. The small creature would nod towards his black and white acquaintance with a sly grin on his face to try and hide how he was also worrying about the same issue. "Oh yeah. Well it's good to hear that you're okay and such, wonder if that inky fella is alright too. You haven't happened to run into him as well throughout the week have ya? And, yeah, I know what you mean. It's a little scary to think it could happen again, though it seems to have settled down now and you'd hope that the higher ups would of investigated into the situation by now and at least came up with a plan to better handle the situation the next time it occurs. Ya know?" The Dreedle would reply optimistically, suddenly dodging backwards as an unobservant customer of the restaurant nearly stepped on him on their way to the bathroom.  "Though being on the verge of deaths door is kinda a constant for me even before that whole ordeal, heh."

The pink fluff would grin a toothy smile at Horny's offer to sit together, that made things much easier! Plus then he'd have someone to talk to which in any situation was always a positive in his books. "Hehe, that was really kind of you to come and lend a hand. You don't know how annoying it can be to be so small and helpless sometimes, it can be a reaaal drag." The fluff ball would chuckle as he lept up onto one of the seats at the table ol' white locks had mentioned. Having to rest his front legs on the side of the table whilst standing on his hind legs on the chair to be able to see over. "Thanks for asking me over, you didn't have to but it was kind of you to! N-now I wonder if they have any booster seats or something, this is going to do a number on my legs if I have to stand like this the whole time."

"Hm. Hopefully they are okay too. And, yeah having a plan is always good. Though having these weird 'Seeker' powers is pretty handy too. Heh, don't think everyone was quite so lucky to... Ya know... Be able to defend themselves..." The small creatures voice would trail off after saying this, a hint of guilt lingering on his voice. He had tried his hardest to help out as many people as he could that night, which was more than some could say. He could of just hid and done nothing to protect himself, but he was out there helping others, he helped out Horny himself for example. Though he still wished he could of done more. "Haha, at least Denki can help save me from the strange monsters. A wrong placed foot outta nowhere and I'm toast." Kuzi would say, trying to take the opportunity to joke a bit to try and lighten the mood again. He wasn't a fan of the sadder parts of life getting to him for too long. "And I'm totally the best at hide and seek, you'd never beat me. Hehe."

With a small bounce off of one paw to the other as his legs were already going dead, Kuzi ended up deciding to just shove off of the seat entirely to sit on the edge of the table. "Hey!" He'd suddenly call out to a passing waitress, whom stop and looked at him with slight annoyance that he was on the table. "Unless you want me to be sitting up here where people are meant to eat, you guys have like, something to put on the seat so I can be higher up? You can see how these seats aren't quite designed for me, yes? Thank you!" Thanking the waitress as she nodded and rolled her eyes before walking off, Kuzi would turn back to Onyx and let out a sigh. "Jeez... So many people just treat me as if I'm below them I swear. I'm just as intelligent and worthy of being recognized as a proper citizen as anyone else! I'm not like... Some pet, ya know?"

Hmm... It had seemed odd how quickly life around here kinda just kicked back into gear after the whole mess. Horny was right in the fact it seemed most people survived as the little one hadn't noticed much of a decrease of people around the place. Fortunately as well no one that he directly knew had been a fatality of the Failed Jump... It still really sucked that there were people out there who were lost and those who had lost others. Though it could had been a lot, lot worse. "Oh, you mean Denki? It... It is true that out of all the other people that I've seen with powers so far I'm the only one who seems to have like. A partner to help me? Instead of just doing things myself, which is a little odd. I dunno why its that way entirely if I'm honest. I just remember a voice in my head saying something about trying to take over my brain? Then Denki stepped in saying she'd hold back the infection and bwam, icicles in the enemies face." Kuzi would explain, making a very poor ice sound effect as he banged the table with one paw. "... Though she can be kinda strict... Eheh, what 'bout you?"

A moment later, the waitress would return with a stack of solid square cushions that she piled up onto one chair to the height where Kuzi would be able to sit properly. The pink fluff would grin thankfully as he took his seat and thanked the waitress once more who again rolled her eyes and walked off with a sigh. "Mmm... I don't really know what pets are like if I'm honest. I've never had one myself, nor do I know if they were a thing back where Dreedles are from. I was actually born here on Junction, so I've never seen the home world where my race is from. This city is the only place I know."

"Oh, cool! You're a splicer? What's that like to go through? Did it hurt at all? Were the results what you actually wanted from it? What are you spliced with? Is that why you have those horns or did you have those before hand? I was kinda interested in the whole splicing thing when I first heard about it, though I was a little too scared to go through with anything. Especially with how much it costs, I wasn't sure if it'd be worth it in the end. Plus, personally I'm quite happy with who I am. I like myself and despite being who I am having some disadvantages, I enjoy the advantages that come alongside it so. Hm... I dunno. Though if you're saying that the splicing is what gave you the powers yourself... Do you think that if I did it now I could get powers and also have Denki still? That'd be pretty cool if it worked, right?" The small pink fluff would spurt out his seemingly never ending line of questions, finally stopping as he thought about his proposed idea further before remembering something he'd heard Onyx say when they first came in.

"Did you say you needed help reading the menu?" Kuzi would offer, dragging one of the menus over towards himself with one paw before reading aloud all the different menu choices for Onyx in a stupid announcers voice as if he was reading out the names of wrestlers entering the ring. As for the other thing. "Eheh, well my Ma and Ra still treat me like a baby, though I'm fine with them doing it. It's just a little annoying when others think lowly of me before even getting to know me, ya know? And yeah, I can see how sudden lose from coming here would suck. Still wish I knew what my real home world looked like, it'd be awesome to be able to visit it!"

Hmm... Kuzi would think about it for a moment, remembering back to the night of the Failed Jump when he first met Horny. It was true that after he'd gotten himself back up from being assaulted by that stone on the beach, he had seen the guy looking a little different from how he did now. And when they continued on to speak about the fact it was some kind of owl that they were spliced with, it made a lot more sense. Well, as much sense as a lot of sense in this weird nonsensical situation could be. If that made any sense. "Huh... A demonic owl? Weren't you worried that it would like, make you go demonic or something? I'm not sure really how it works, but damn, being blind sounds like it would suck... Heh. I can't even imagine it, I dunno what I'd do if I was blind. Well, for starters I'd be stepped on for sure." The little one would joke, giving a lopsided grin. "Though it's pretty cool that it managed to give you ya sight back. Or... Give it to you in the first place. Boy, that'd also be weird to go from never seeing anything to being able to see."

After reading out the whole menu aloud, the pink fluff would tilt his head and stare at the menu a little further. Trailing his paw along the menu, stopping occasionally to read the further descriptions of what each food item was in his head before calling out to a different passing waiter and pointing at the thing he wanted. The waiter would then wait to take Horny's order before nodding and taking off in a much more polite manor than the waitress before him.

"W-what?" For once the young Dreedle was at a loss for words, not expecting what was just asked of him. "W-well, I guess it is hard to tell age between races. And even harder to tell if that age means you're old or not. But I would had hoped I didn't actually come across as a baby, h-heh." The creature would shuffle on his seat, trying to sit up right to make himself look as big as possible. "I'll have you know I'm sixteen years of age. S-so, no I'm not a baby. Though, I'm not really what you'd call an adult yet either, heh. I'd be fully grown by around the age of Twenty-Six. T-though most of my growing is done already! I'd, uh... Be classed as an teenager I guess. Older teen!" Finding it more and more difficult not to blush at admitting how young he was, the small creature would quickly throw out that last line to try and defend himself further from the hole he was digging himself.