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[Jamie has settled under a tree in the forest, his satchel on his lap. Reaching inside, he pulls out a mass of cloth, carefully unwrapping it to reveal a brown egg with blue speckles - still intact. He looks at it, a vaguely disgruntled expression on his face.]

Och, aren't ye ever going to hatch?

[He's not gotten a lot of sleep the past couple of days, having just come off a rather harrowing mission with his Doctor. It involved nearly falling off a cliff - something actually stopped when the satchel had snagged on a tree limb. He's grateful that he still needed the satchel, but at the same time, he's very tired of hauling the bag around. There's a sigh, which turns into a bit of a yawn.]

Maybe I'll take a wee nap and see if I can find someone here after that who can help.

[Closing his eyes, he tucks a protective arm over the egg and drifts off into slumber. He's soon sound asleep, and completely misses the fact that the egg is beginning to twitch. Cracks appear in its shell, and a piece of it pops off rather suddenly, pushed free by the nose of its occupant, a cinnamon colored ferret.]

[The ferret wiggles its way free through the hole, looking around with bright, inquisitive eyes. Spotting the piece of shell it knocked free, it jumps on it and starts wrestling it into submission, like you do with those sorts of things. This fails to get Jamie's attention, as he is still out cold...and might need a wee bit of prompting before he'll notice.]

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[Jamie gives Axel a slightly bemused look off the smirk, but extends his hand to shake anyway.] I thought ye looked a bit familiar.

Aye, that was something! Mind ye, I'll not be trying to make my sword sonic again. But it was a grand fight, all the same.

[Axel shakes it.]

It sure was.

[When he pulls his hand back, it suddenly bursts into flame, and Axel commences a very convincing impression of someone with his hand on fire.] Eeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaagggghhh--

[But he ruins it by sneezing, probably due to the ferret, and the fire goes out.]

... This is just not my day, seriously.

[Jamie looks distinctly alarmed as Axel's hand catches on fire.]

Your hand!

[He goes to grab at his satchel- apparently planning to use it to beat out the flame - when Axel sneezes and the fire goes out. Jamie stares for a moment, then realizes what happened.]

Wha...hey! You tricked me!

[Oh, he did not care for that.]

I'm a bit of a fire elementalist. I guess you didn't pick that one up.

[He shrugs.]

[He's still slightly cranky.] What, because ye have red hair? It's not like I've met any Elemenwhatsis before, and the only other time I've seen ye I was a wee bit busy.

...Although I guess it does explain why ye have a fire-bird. Do ye do that a lot to people?

[He just chuckles at that.]

The ones I like.

[Oh, he probably shouldn't ask this, but...]

And what do ye do to the ones ye don't like?

[His smirk widens.]

I'd tell you to ask one, but there aren't any left.

[Yep. Definitely shouldn't have asked.]

Remind me not to get ye angry. I'd prefer not to be on fire any time soon. [Or ever, really.]

[A laugh! A real one, this time.]

I don't get angry very easily. I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy, so you're safe.

Aye? That's a relief. Although...I suppose being able to set things on fire could be handy.

Very. Especially when you fight monsters. They do a fun sort of dance.

I can think of a few beasties that might be interesting to see happen to.

Was it hard to learn how to do that?

It's too bad you can't turn Heartless into bacon... [He scratches his chin.]

Ah, yeah, at first. I wasn't born with it or anything. Someone taught me.

Heartless? [He's puzzled for a moment, then takes a guess.] Oh, is that the name of one of your monsters?

That's right. The dark side of everyone in monster form. They're pretty nasty. Don't get near one unless you want to make more work for the people who deal with them, a.k.a. me and my sidekick, Roxas. [He smirks a bit at his own inside joke.]

The dark side of... [He doesn't even need to finish the sentence to know that that sounds very dangerous.]

Wait, how would getting near one make more work for ye?

[He's totally missed the fact there's an inside joke to be had there, just for the record.]

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If they steal a heart, they make more. That's what makes it so hard to get rid of them.

[That's fine. Poor Roxas is going to have to deal with the sidekick thing forever.]

Aye, I see. [It's not too dissimilar to some tales he heard as a wee lad, so he believes the description.]

What do they look like, then?

[Thank God. He's so sick of people going MAGIC DOESN'T EXIST BLAH DE BLAH right in his face.]

Black bodies and glowing yellow eyes. Some of them look like machines, others look like guys in funny clothes, some look like bugs... Typically the stronger ones have an insignia on 'em somewhere that looks like a heart.

[Well, they are in a place where you can get ferrets from eggs. You would think that more people would be open-minded about that sort of thing.]

I'll be sure to stay well away if I happen to see anything of the sort. Although I would hope that the things we fight can't show up here. I'd not care to have a run-in with anything like that, aye?

[whoniverse chars are the worst offenders.]

Keep hoping. I brought the things with me once by accident. Took care of 'em pretty easily though.

[Point. But exceptions for superstitious 18th Century Highlanders?]

I thought ye had to be touching something to bring it with ye?

[... Yes :3]

I was sorta in the middle of killing 'em, yeah.

Could ye have not...let go first? [In Jamie's mind, it would make much more sense to actually do something like that. Then another thought occurs to him.)

Or was it one of those times where the Plane decided to bring ye here all on its own?

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