First Keg: Where did you come from, where do you go?

[mistweaver]

Well, to judge, she came from the sky, and now, Jou Shan Aleflower is up in a tree, more than a few dozen feet off the ground. Sadly, this was not how she'd expected to arrive anywhere. Much less...where she was now. It didn't look like anywhere she'd been in Azeroth...

"Come on, Jou. You climbed higher trees as a cub...then again, I had paws," she groused, taking a look at the hooves that now ended her feet. "Not a zhevra's hooves!"

Still, grousing was not about to get her down, and her dangling was drawing something of a crowd.

"Put your belly in it, girl!" she encouraged herself, before with some straining and grunting, Jou Shan got herself up and balanced on the branch she had landed on.

Now, to try to get down...preferably in one piece!

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[mistweaver]

Oh dear. What was this bearling thinking? Jou Shan blinked.

"I am not originally a zebra." Zebra? Zhevra? Eh. "Until I came here I WAS a Pandaren. A bear person. But here I am, and now I have hooves, and it is somewhat distressing. But no, neither as a Pandaren nor a zebra, did I fly in my sleep!"

Jou paused. "Not on purpose, at least. I cannot fly, I do not have wings, and my flying mounts are not here with me, either. Also I would look ridiculous, trying to ride something now."

Well, she at least tried to be educational...

[kingofthetvworld]

Absolutely none of that registers, he immediately stops listening the moment she says she's a bear person. His eyes light up and he practically squeals over this news.

"Get out of town! You're a bear, too?!"

He doesn't even question it or show any suspicion; who cares if she looks like a zebra right now?

[mistweaver]

"A Pandaren, yes! From the Wandering Isle!" Not that Jou Shan had expected him to understand any of that part, true though it was.

"But I seem to be stuck for the moment with hooves." And she shrugs.

"Still. My name is Jou Shan Aleflower, but call me Jou. Nice to meet you!" At least there are other bears here, even if he's not Pandaren.

[kingofthetvworld]

He holds out one of his paws eagerly.

"And I'm Teddie," he then pauses, considering if he should add anymore to that. Compared to her, just 'Teddie' didn't sound nearly as impressive. "The fantastical fuzzy king Teddie, from the Land of Television."

Yes, perfect. No one would ever question that.

"It's nice to meetcha! And I wouldn't worry too much about the hooves thing, almost everyone around here has a pair or two. You should see my Sensei! I bearly recognized him when I got here."

[mistweaver]

"Oh? You have a sensei?" Not that hers was around to see her any more, but Jou at least knew that the old man was proud of her before he'd joined the ancestors.

The zebra nodded as Teddie went on, ears flicking a little bit, before she tilted her head and uttered a few fateful words...

"So, what's a television?"

[kingofthetvworld]

"You betcha," he beams. "And he's the absolute greatest! I don't mean to brag, but he even gets good scores on his school exams~"

And from what he hears, those are really hard. His pride takes a step to the side, however, when she asks what a television is. Does...does he really know more than someone else? What a weird feeling, normally it's the other way around.

"Whaaaaaat? You mean you really don't know what a TV is? That's crazy!"

[mistweaver]

"I do not know what 'school exams' are either," Jou said. "I had...exams, I guess, but that was training at Master Shang's..."

And then she shrugs.

"I am sure I could bring up many things from my world that you would not be familiar with, but I don't think you're crazy. You just aren't from Azeroth!"