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[No doubt a fantastic catnapping, filled to the brim with Action and Awesomestness. Stealthing through long corridors with servants none the wiser, finding themselves in awkward close quarters that made them rethink their positions on romance, a daring escape with Lord Fuzzlesnugkins in hand--

or, you know, just kind of luring the tuxedo cat out with some tuna through an open window and Fuzzles, recognizing Sigrun, being all-too happy to join them on their return to Kimbley and Archer's place. He's a spoiled tom, but he's oddly complacent at the same time, balancing on Sigrun's shoulder like it's no problem at all. This is a great week to rescue cats from terrible naming situations with the whole Thera thing going on.]

So do you think they'll get along? Lizzy and the little lord. I mean, once we get her to not eat him. He's pretty chill about stuff, so he might just see her as a scaly bed. Does she spit poison? I've heard of lizards that can do that and they are so cool.

Edited (hmtl thanks) 2016-10-13 21:53 (UTC)

Oh, hell no.

[Unfortunately! Because lizards spitting poison sounds cool as hell? Holy shit.]

Archer wouldn't be anywhere near her if she did. She's venomous as hell, though, if she decides to bite you.

She's pretty all right most of the time, it's just going to come down to getting her to understand that she isn't allowed to eat this particular cat? Because damn, she used to piss the neighbor off when her cats would spontaneously go missing, but I'm not sure if that's just "she likes eating cats" or "she really hated that woman's face", and I don't blame her if it was that last one.

[Doesn't it fucking just.]

Fuzzy here'll charm her, won't you boy? [Sure.] Was that lady a bad neighbor, or did she have a face you'd really like to punch, because I understand both completely.

[She recently found someone she'd like to punch!!! It's great. She resisted doing it because she's an adult who can solve things civilly but she found someone she'd like to punch.]

She wasn't too bad, I guess, she just liked to get in my face and I don't really like that.

[He has no tolerance for people physically up in his grill, and he can't just solve things the way he'd like to.]

She had a particularly punchable face, though, let's put it that way - you know how some people just do?

Oh, I do. And then there's some people who open their mouths and you realize how much you wanna punch them too! Those are the worst.

[Surprise punchbags.]

It's just too bad you can't throwdown with anyone you want just because of that. I mean, I guess you can, but then they can get people like me on your ass about it and all that nonsense? As long as no one dies and they objectively get what's coming to them, I don't care.

[... That is probably a bad attitude to have as an Enforcer? Probably.]

[It gets a brief laugh out of him, anyway.]

They discourage that back home, too - but in my experience, as long as you were good at your job and weren't running around committing war crimes, they didn't care about what you did. Just don't cause some sort of international incident and you're fine.

[He was one of the people running around committing war crimes, but shhhh.]

Shame they're not as lenient here - if you do your job otherwise and it's objectively for the best that someone gets their face punched in, I don't get why it matters.

Right? But noooo, as an Enforcer it's better not to get forceful unless the situation calls for it. Like if they go at you first and stuff. It's really boring and I got kind of a talking to when I settled a fight between a couple people by beating them both up.

[Very efficient. And she got to show off. What's not good about that?]

Sometimes you just need to let your fists do the talking.

Especially if it's just your fists? It's not like you're going to seriously maim someone unless you've got no control at all, come on.

[If she was not holding this cat, she would be throwing up her arms in absolute excitement. As is the situation, she is just waving her freer arm.]

Exactly! And if you have no control in the first place, you shouldn't be on the force anyway! It's like they don't know the meaning of self-discipline! I mean, the part they were probably more mad about was the gambling that went on, but still. If you have the talent for it, then you use it to make money, simple as that.

That's the sort of system that leads a bunch of people to the unit of the military that I was in back home - if you've got the talent, you get way more than the general public in terms of resources for your research and they'll practically throw money at you. So at least their priorities are in the right order; can't say too much for this place's, though. Too many restrictions on things, if you ask me.

Sounds like my kind of unit, even if I'd use whatever money on drinks instead. At least the people here are good for the most part, if stuffy! They let me take one of their new inventions out for a spin last month though! That was nice of them!

[... "Let" is kind of a loose term here, but they didn't tell her no. They just also didn't tell her yes.]

I mean, I found out that I really, really do not like flying, but you live and learn! Who needs the sky when you've got a good pair of feet to walk with? The fun part's the journey!

[AND SHE'S VERY CLEARLY SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES THAT 100%, look at her shine.]

[...holy shit, Sigrun.]

What do you have against flying, out of curiosity?

Humans were not meant to fly. If we were, then we'd have wings. We don't. So.

[..........]

Also I don't like the way it feels. I like my feet on the ground!

[That's...actually kind of adorable? That's adorable.]

Fair enough. I've actually kind of liked it since coming here, I've done it a few times; it's not something I ever had the opportunity to try back home, we didn't have any sustainable technology for it.

[Don't.]

My experience with it is just as limited, but I've also see a lot of flying things like that nose-first in the ground too, so. My world had that... they just kind of crashed it all. When they died. Probably while they were flying.

[It's terrifying, Kimbley!!! Never trust a tin can to fly.]

[What the fuck - ]

What happened? Was it just like...I don't know, a flash and everyone died, or...

No, but that'd be pretty cool too. It was a disease that pretty much clean slated the world except for the god-chosen, or so I get it, but that was a while ago. Like, a hundred years while ago.

[... God-chosen, and cat-chosen. Cats are part of the god deal. They go hand in hand.]

There's a lot of stuff we don't know about what happened or what caused it or anything like that, but that doesn't really matter to me personally. I'm just a soldier that kills what came from it.

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