🌲🌸☀️ bug eater farm: summertime catch-all ☀️🌸🌲

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🐛 WHO: Kaspar Blumlund and/or Trahearne + visitors
🐛 WHAT: Summer/Jan. catch-all for the chill bug eater farm
🐛 WHEN: throughout this season
🐛 WHERE: their farm in the forest
🐛 WARNINGS: marked in headers and updated here eventually

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[ Kaspar is excited for this, in all the little ways he knows how express it without words. Their living room has been cleaned and cozied up with coasters and places set on the coffee table and side tables. A blanket is tossed over the back of the couch, one M-21 may recognize. Kaspar also has tea on offer, from the elephant tea pot itself.

Dressed down for what has been described as something casual, he looks just as naturally comfortable as he usually does in uniform. Tonight, he manages it in a nicely fitted short sleeve shirt and soft gray pants. Most noticeably, for once, he doesn't have his pistol at hand.

Everyone gets a smile from him in greeting, and M-21 gets a warm pat on the back. It is just small enough of a group that he feels at ease, though large enough that he is content to go quiet unless spoken to directly. Offers of tea and soup are largely wordless, but he endeavors to keep cups filled and guests happy.

But by the time he curls up on one end of the couch with his cup, he realizes it might be a tight fit. So, he offers his lap up innocently to whoever is closest with a pat. Though the spot on the ground in front of his legs or beside him, are also hot real estate options. ]

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[ It's a nice, comfortable group of people M-21 likes -- only one of which has seen him hallucinating, which is definitely a plus. He gives Kaspar a little smile in return for that pat on the back. Once a man has spoon fed one worm soup, he has a certain amount of leniency where personal space is concerned.

Not, maybe, sitting in his lap levels of personal space waiver. At least for the practical reason that he isn't much shorter than Kaspar, and then Kaspar would miss out on the exciting horse movie. M-21 plops down next to him instead, looking around to see where everyone else is settling. He can still move to the floor if they're squished... ]

You moved the TV plants for this.

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[ Ori, meanwhile, is comfortable with the group as well, all things considered...!

She is also fully ready to sit on the floor when she spots Kaspar offering his lap, which has her. Pausing. He's so bold...! Yet she has to admit, despite being the smallest one here, her horns would likely make for an uncomfortable time for Kaspar.

She waves a hand dismissively in response, but an idea occurs to her then... ]

Heh... Wouldn't it be funny if I turned into a cat or something to sit in your lap?

[ haha jk... unless... ]

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[ Kaspar doesn't realize how bold of an offer, as someone to the standards of the island for physical affection. Also he lives with Trahearne. But he is unfazed. And then he is too busy visibly relaxing once M-21's remark draws his warm glance and soft smile. He's taken it as a compliment

Ori is not spared his queit warmth either, when his gaze finds her again. Kaspar breathes a laugh at the offer, shifting to grab the blanket for his lap. And M-21's, if he should accept it from him blindly.

Simply, he agrees. With a wide open lap, softened by layers of cloth. ]

... It would.

1/2

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[ Well, it's really hard to refuse when that blanket looks so enticing (and so does that quiet warmth)...

She's also honestly forgotten, apart from M-21, who all amongst this group are aware that she has such an ability, but here goes!

With one graceful move, her body shrinks and shifts into that of a cat..... with rabbit ears. She looks a little bit like this, but covered in flowers. She leaps onto Kaspar's lap after that, circling a few times and making biscuits before she lays down there, all curled up. ]

[feralheart]

[ Because M-21 likes Kaspar: the cryptic remark was definitely a compliment. But now he's glancing between the two of them and blinking, undecided on how to take this. This is... just cat things, right? Hm.

Well, it makes plenty of room on the couch for all of them. He resettles himself, leaning just a little against Kaspar's shoulder as he reaches over to try to pet a cat-rabbit ear. They can all be comfy like this. ]

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[ The transformation is a surprise to Kaspar. A mild one, because he has seen her magic and believed her words. It is just enough for a breath of a laugh that is snuffed out by one palm as he watches her ritual to curl up on his lap. He is delighted, in his own subdued way, with bright eyes and calm demeanor.

He aims one stroke along her back just as M-21 leans into him. But Kaspar easily accepts the warmth of them both, feeling strangely comforted by it. This is a first, having two people he cares for so close. It has him relaxing further against the couch as he shifts one arm to drape over M-21's shoulders and quietly allow him more comfortable access to Ori. M-21's back is fine now, after all. ]

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[ Oriphi, in her cat (rabbit?) form settles in cozily and without further issue. She probably won't be able to watch the horse girl movies properly like this, but she can always hop off and sit on the floor as herself later...

For now, she's happy to provide serotonin for Kaspar and M-21. The former's hand cards through fur and flowers alike as his fingers glide along her back, and her ear twitches under M-21's attention.

She might be purring a little, too... Look, don't think about it too much, ]

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[ M-21 blinks once in surprise. But it's not like he hadn't already allowed Kaspar much closer than that when Kas was looking after him during the goddess' little back pain prank. Whatever calculations are working their way through the werewolf brain, M-21 ultimately settles on "smug" and relaxes right where he is, nearly snuggling.

He's got a soft rabbit ear to pet. He's warm and cozy. And he doesn't hate the comfortable feeling of having Kaspar's arm around him. He'll give that some thought later, or likely not at all. ]

Doubt the square still counts if we fall asleep.