It was gonna happen sometime.

[heromedal]

🐄Hey kids! It's Indrik! King of Beasts (in training), ex-earth spirit, now Rex spirit and generally weird critter!🐄

Indrik is usually quite a sleepy baby, and as long as he's got a full tum-tum, he'll laze away his days either in the stables or in Rex's creepy van. But sometimes, a freakish beast has gotta do what a freakish creature has gotta do. One of those times is when the door to his pen is left open by mistake. As such, the pony-sized, cow-faced, golden-scaled, firey red lion-maned, lizard-tailed, thing with a big chubby belly is going on an adventure! Dare you be a random encounter in Indrik's epic tale?

Hit the Bench
So you're enjoying a nice quiet sit on a bench, eh? Whatever your doing can't be that important because it does not involve Indrik, but fortunately he is here to solve that. With a crash, Indrik's little cow head busts through the wood of the bench's backrest. Hello, his little cow face seems to say, by jutting his tongue out and staring.

Screaming
Some days, you just gotta scream. Don't matter where you are or what the time is. He's already worked out if you smack a door a couple of times it will either fall off its hinges or someone in there will let you in. Indrik finds himself a nice person and just shrieks at them. Head jutting forward, body lowered and mane bristling he unleashes something which is half devastating mooing and half paralysing roar- except miniaturised, so it starts as a meep and becomes a squeak.

I didn't know I could do that!
The original Indrik was known for making the earth shake when he walked and unleashing flames to destroy those with evil hearts foolish enough to cross his path. The current Indrik is just a chunky boy concerning the former, and with the latter, he has yet to demonstrate any flames at all.

Until two minutes ago when he started burping up fireballs because he's been eating from trashcans all day. They're not terribly hot and burst much like dazzling fireworks after a few seconds with a bang, making them more startling than dangerous, but the fact he's running around shooting them off everywhere is probably a little offputting at least.

(( For those not in the know- Indrik is a super weird spirit linked to Rex's soul, who shares Rex's general paranoia that everyone might possibly be an enemy except he's an unstoppable idiot, so watch out for your kneecaps! He can be friendly, but mostly he's angry. His feelings on people are influenced by Rex's own too. Good with kids. Anyone is free to know Indrik is Rex's 'pet', as he often walks him around campus. Rex will probably show up after a bit in each scenario because Indrik is not allowed out unsupervised. ))

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[heromedal]

It's okay to insult Indrik, he doesn't speak. Rex watches Toki stammer and break off, sharply reminding him of their first meeting. It takes some serious mental gymnastics for Rex to conclude that the main reason he keeps interacting with Toki and offering to assist him is to keep up appearances to third parties... especially considering he has no idea if anyone actually knows the pair of them regularly interact.

After a moment of watching, Rex speaks up himself- though this time in Japanese. His accent is pretty bizarre, but hey, if Toki is a big sumo fan, he may have heard a famous Bulgarian sumo wrestler speak on TV before.

"Take a breath, and we can carry on."

He kind of hopes the sudden language shift, which he has learnt almost entirely to speak with Toki, will illustrate that yeah- he values him.

[yokeye]

He likes Rex's accent, and he's very surprised to hear him speak in Japanese. It at least gets Toki to focus more, though he doesn't recognize it as something Rex may be learning because of him. There were several Japanese students after all. Though now, subconsciously Toki's moved Bulgarian up on his list of languages to learn. It's now after English, with Spanish bumped down to #3. Sorry, Hector.

"Yes! Back to the experiment!"

He grabs something at random, just to keep moving on. It's a dagger or a letter opener, something sharp and shiny. He sets it next to the melted statue.

[heromedal]

Wow, Rex just smacking Héctor around all over the place.

He hasn't yet completely mastered the language, but he's pretty good conversationally. Toki's method of talking advantage- cramming lots of words to practice into a short time. Disadvantage- cramming lots of words he might not know into a short time. Rex, on the other hand, speaks even slower than usual.

"If I get something wrong, please correct me. I'm learning to talk to you, after all."

Just to make it clear, now he's aware of how low Toki placed himself in Rex's regard.

Indrik isn't as dumb as he likes to act or Rex thinks and especially now treats are involved has worked out that when something is put in the pit, it's time to spit!

The knife, however, weighs so little it's blasted away by the small burst of pressure more than singed. Still counts! Gets a treat!

[yokeye]

Oh. That's awkward.

"Haha, you don't have to learn Japanese for me~! That's why I'm learning French and I'm not that bad at it!"

Maybe he was terrible and it was so bad he was a lost cause, Rex resorting to learning Japanese because his French was barely comprehensible. That would make sense; he does confuse people easily.

Toki watches the knife go flying to clatter against the wall. Heavier things only, from now on. He makes a note on that.

[heromedal]

"And you don't have to be..." He stops, thinks hard for a moment and then fucks up spectacularly by using a word for 'nice' in Japanese which is often used ironically, especially meaning embarrassing, but he does say it like a question. You know what, he just asks- in French, in which he is fluent.

"How do I say 'nice?' As in a kind person?"

With a flick of his finger, he brings the knife back. No sense letting it make a mess. Unfortunately, Indrik has not entirely grasped that if it's not in the pit it might not be a target anymore and before Rex can get an answer to his question, he gets a faceful of fireworks, flips over a bench and drops out of sight.

[yokeye]

Rex is probably more accurate than he thinks with that mistake, and it's not taken at all like an insult. Applying any sort of adjective in the realm of 'kind, decent, nice' is in error. He tries, but he generally falls short of those things or does something to change that perception fairly quickly. He's lucked out with Rex so far.

Rex has a lot of wizard things going on, but Toki isn't expecting the knife to come flying back before he can answer. Indrik's somehow forgotten the firepit and gone for the knife. He doesn't try to stop the beast, but he does peer over the bench in the aftermath.

"Are you okay!? It's uh, shinsetsu..."

[heromedal]

Rex spends a long while on his back, staring upwards, arms crossed and legs straight- or mostly straight. Kind of propped up on the desk.

"I'm fine," he replies utterly deadpan, just before the knife comes down from the ceiling and lands between his legs with a clang and a long-running wobbling noise. "And thank you."

Rex doesn't seem mad as such, but he is taking a moment to centre himself.

"This might be a good time to let Indrik rest his throat, don't you think?"

[yokeye]

"Oh no! I made him work too hard! Sorry, Indrik~! You can burn more things later~!"

It was for the best, before the creature did some actual damage.