World Enough and Time

I got a new budgie today. Logan was so very lonely....

So I went with maaseru and maaboroshi to the pet store at Billings Bridge and contemplated the budgies. It was 2:30 p.m. and they were all having their mid-afternoon nap. There were six budgies - they usually have more, perhaps people have been buying them for Christmas? There were three blue ones, one green and yellow, one white and blue (like Pryde) and one that was an interesting mottled and spotted white, yellow and blue.

I picked one of the blues and named him Remy. X-Men fans will know why.

I put him into the cage with Logan and there has been a long silence - lasting about six hours now. They are eying each other from opposite corners of the cage like two gunslingers in a bar in a western.