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[espigeonage]

[The view is from the floor, of the ceiling of Julien's room in the hotel, which has a poem taped to it. You can hear the sound of his very deep breathing, noisier and more labored than usual.]

I can't get up. There was a pulse - something's gonna - [A white wing is briefly visible, flapping. It's another moment before he says anything.]

It hurts.

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[radiantchicken]

I'm not sure how long it will take me to get there, but I'll come and do what I can.

[He is not sure what, if anything he can do, outside of moral support, but that's better than nothing...]

[espigeonage]

I don't think there's anything you can do. Liam's setting up the athelas.

...distract me. I don't wanna-

Talk to me about things.

[radiantchicken]

What sorts of things? The parrots? I can also talk about dinosaurs, or perhaps about some of the books I've been reading lately. They're quite interesting!

[espigeonage]

Anything you want. Just talk. Please.

[radiantchicken]

[Torin nods.]

The parrots are doing quite well! They all seem to be thriving. Pedro still enjoys watching horror movies, and I suppose I shouldn't encourage him, for he does tend to quote things from them at inappropriate times. The Shining is still his favorite, but I've been gradually trying to draw him towards comedies. We tried Scary Movie. I am not certain he enjoyed it.

We both enjoyed The Birds, though, even if I'm afraid he might have gotten ideas from that one. He doesn't mean anyone any harm, though he's a very mischievous fellow. He likes playing pranks, even if most of the time, that just involves hiding some small item or another.

[espigeonage]

[There's a fluttering and a decided pause before Julien can respond.]

Don't watch... Birdemic unless you like movies really bad.

[radiantchicken]

I've heard of that one. I don't think we'll be giving it a shot. We've also been trying to watch a few musicals, because the others seem to enjoy those more than the horror movies. Do you have any recommendations?

[espigeonage]

'S an awful movie but a great bad one.


Nnh. Hairspray.

[radiantchicken]

Hairspray! Excellent. I'll make a note of it.

I'm hoping to someday find a movie that is entertainingly bad, has horror movie aspects, and is also a musical. I think everyone would be satisfied by that.

[espigeonage]

Try Repo. It's so gory.

But the songs are good.

[radiantchicken]

That sounds as though it would make all the parrots happy, yes!

[Even if he's not much for gore, and even if he's not quite certain just how much the parrots understand when watching movies, they do seem to enjoy it.]

[espigeonage]

Repo the Genetic Opera. Sounds like they'd like it.

Tell me your f-favorite movie.

[radiantchicken]

I'm very fond of The Land Before Time, actually.

...though the sequels leave a great deal to be desired.

[espigeonage]

They got singing. And... alien dinosaurs. Maybe.

[gasping for breath]

[radiantchicken]

And those are always pleasant things.

But we have seen some terrible movies as well. We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story was horribly inaccurate...can you tell us some to avoid?

[espigeonage]

Um. Hah. Yeah.

...Not Twilight?

[radiantchicken]

[Torin laughs at that.]

I don't think it would appeal to any of us, anyway. Pedro would lose interest once he realized it was a romance and not a horror movie. He did seem to enjoy the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula.

[espigeonage]

[Julien grunts] Mmh.

Go through the - the Harryhausen stuff. Old stop-motion.

[radiantchicken]

Ah, yes, Clash of the Titans. I watched that when I was still small; I think they might enjoy it as well.

[espigeonage]

Not the new version.

'S bad.

[radiantchicken]

I saw a trailer for that one on YouTube. It didn't seem like the same movie.

Do they do that often? Taking the titles of old movies and adding them to new ones that seem completely unrelated?

[espigeonage]

Sometimes. Remakes.

[radiantchicken]

They cannot think of anything new?