The Cat sometimes known as Pounce (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
absentconstellation) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
maskormenacelogs2016-08-11 05:59 pm
absentconstellation) wrote in maskormenacelogs2016-08-11 05:59 pm
Everybody wants to be a cat [open]
WHO: The Cat and You
WHERE: Anywhere, everywhere
WHEN: All month August
WHAT: Cat-like things
WARNINGS: None
The Cat has had almost a fortnight to explore his new home. He has been given a job, one which interests him enough to keep up with it. He has a room in a house in Heropa - he has no real interest in using it. Instead he does as he has always done. He wanders, looking for interesting humans, scavenging food whenever he likes. It isn't hard in these bustling cities, all so conveniently linked by porters. He isn't terribly pleased that he can't travel as freely as he used to, but it doesn't bother him too much either. He has lived eons in thousands of different places, and he has always made do.
A.
One of the ways he makes do is by the clever use of two-leggers. So many of them are fond of animals and willing to give one food and shelter, at least for a short time. So he picks a human and follows them, never alerting them to his presence but not going out of his way to hide himself, either. He will follow them into buildings and out of them, whether it seems like he should have been physically able to or not.
B.
It's raining. He hates the rain. He can dry himself easily enough, but that doesn't stop it from being terribly uncomfortable as it falls down on him. He doesn't pick or choose, he simply finds a door and races through it out of the cold and the wet.
Sorry, was that rude? He doesn't care.
WHERE: Anywhere, everywhere
WHEN: All month August
WHAT: Cat-like things
WARNINGS: None
The Cat has had almost a fortnight to explore his new home. He has been given a job, one which interests him enough to keep up with it. He has a room in a house in Heropa - he has no real interest in using it. Instead he does as he has always done. He wanders, looking for interesting humans, scavenging food whenever he likes. It isn't hard in these bustling cities, all so conveniently linked by porters. He isn't terribly pleased that he can't travel as freely as he used to, but it doesn't bother him too much either. He has lived eons in thousands of different places, and he has always made do.
A.
One of the ways he makes do is by the clever use of two-leggers. So many of them are fond of animals and willing to give one food and shelter, at least for a short time. So he picks a human and follows them, never alerting them to his presence but not going out of his way to hide himself, either. He will follow them into buildings and out of them, whether it seems like he should have been physically able to or not.
B.
It's raining. He hates the rain. He can dry himself easily enough, but that doesn't stop it from being terribly uncomfortable as it falls down on him. He doesn't pick or choose, he simply finds a door and races through it out of the cold and the wet.
Sorry, was that rude? He doesn't care.
no subject
"Lord Raoul never mentioned a cat..."
She would have thought one with purple eyes would MERIT such an mention.
no subject
"I believe his suggestion was that I be called 'Blackie'."
He's had worse names, but still. That's pretty bad.
no subject
"That...does sound right. He was my knight master."
She is still looking this cat over with some trepidation and slight suspicion.
"Were you her pet when she was a squire?"
no subject
"And after, until the day of Jonathan's coronation."
no subject
THAT Raoul did tell her about. She starts petting him again, recalling some of the names of the dead, the names of the Royal children afterwards.
"...And you didn't survive, did you."
no subject
no subject
"I think it's done well since then...because of her and what she did and keeps on doing."
Not that she hero worships Alanna or anything.
"Do you have a name? Since I'm not to call you Blackie."
no subject
"I have had a great many names." But, since they have people in common and all... "Alanna called me Faithful."
no subject
Kel keeps stroking him, all the tension gone out of her at last.
"It...it's good to have someone from home even if we're a bit remote in time."
no subject