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 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:37 pm
Mrs. Cake tapped her foot impatiently. "Exactly right, child!" she said, just as Nikolai rolled his eyes and said, "Let me guess, the broth's going to get cold and we ought to discuss this around a good hot meal?"
There was the slight pause that slunk into any conversation involving Mrs. Cake. "Sound advice, Mrs. Cake. Let's eat, everyone."
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:24 pm
Katie smiled warmly at Jacqueline, "Would you like some broth..? It will help you warm up from the inside.." She decided to wait a bit before asking any questions.. She hoped the others would take her lead.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:43 pm
Noticing that questions would be asked later, Emily kept her mouth shut. Emily's tail twitched in her jeans. Dang she was nervous. She kept her eyes on the door and slipped a throwing knife up the sleeve of her good arm. She had questions that needed answering. Soon.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:07 am
Mrs. Cake noticed Emily and the knife and tapped her on the shoulder, pointing at a sign:
HOUSE RULES:
No Changeing in the house
No concealed weapons, natural or otherwise, in the house
Five pence a night per head, not a penny less, and no exceptions
You will eat what is placed in front of you and without complaint or you may catch your own dinner
Do not judge others because of their real or presumed species/phylum/mutation/etc.
Violence will be dealt with in a very final manner
"Rule Two, miss. I don't have any truck with concealed weapons in my house, and unless you like snow I'd take it out in the open."
Nikolai shrugged with his spoon halfway to his mouth. "I'd do as she says. I was locked out for two days last winter when I refused to keep my claws out in the house."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:28 am
"Ok, I can accept that", Emily said. She liked it better anyways when people were nervous and saw her weapons. When they're nervous, they make slip ups.
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:46 pm
A small, appreciative smile played at Jacqueline’s lips. So the questions would wait, that was good, and now the cat-girl was offering her food. The taste of broth was in the air, but also mixed in with a jumble of other human half-breeds.
“Yes, please,” she said with a light, trying to be the obedient person she was when she was around her superior officers. “I haven’t had a good meal in a while.”
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:38 pm
Emily sipped her broth while staring intently at the newcomer. She didn't mean to stare at her, but her mind was thinking in overdrive and she didn't notice she was staring.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:02 am
Katie smiled warmly, "You were much more colder than the average human yet when you warmed up you became more lively. It's actually quite intriguing how you managed to make it to the door.. let alone knock on the door loud enough for us to hear.. The broth should help you warm up quicker too.." (( ((I know it's a bit early but here is something for all of ya.))
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:19 am
Nikolai finished off his chicken broth and placed the bowl in the sink, nodding slightly to Mrs. Cake. "I'll take the floor tonight, Mrs. Cake, and my guests can have the spare beds, okay?"
Mrs. Cake nodded, for once waiting until after Nikolai had spoken. "They're still payin' five pence a head."
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:47 am
Jacqueline resisted giving the staring one an angry glare as she sipped her broth. The cat-girl was right, Jacqueline could feel her body warming from the inside out as she drank the broth. She nodded at the cat-girl and muttered a quick, “you’re very observant,” before she finished her broth with a bit more energy
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:36 pm
Katie grinned somewhat eerily from ear to ear at Jacqueline's comment. "Only when things irk my curiosity.." She sipped at the broth, licked her lips, and then said, "Now.. What were you doing out in such weather freezing to death..?" She sounded rather blunt but at the same time there was an air of amusement in her tone.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:42 pm
Biting her tongue to avoid making a comment along the lines of ‘curiosity killed the cat’, Jacqueline pushed her bowl away from her to signify she was done. She wanted to remain on good terms with these other half-breeds too, so angry remarks would have to be steered clear of. However, her story was supposed to be that she was just another half-breed who had noticed what was different about these people and decided to follow them.
“What were you doing out in such weather with a puma?” Jacqueline finally countered. That would at least give her an excuse to having followed them, seeing them traveling with a puma in the snow.
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:19 pm
kiana was having difficulty hanging onto her broth bowl with her talons, not that she could have put them away. she didn't have retractables like the cat people. when the land lady had ordererd her no concealed weapons, she had been rather annoyed, though she did manage to conceal where they were all hidden by folding her wings around her while she took them off. in a pile by her chair lay eight daggers, two swords, a few odd looking leather balls, a set of five throwing stars, two throwing knives, a folded in half longbow and a quiver of arrows, and a small pickaxe. she had noticed the slightly surprised look on the others faces when she had unfolded her wings with that pile in her hands, but didnt care, she was a rogue, a loner, and an occasional thief and murdurer. but unless provoked, she would never harm a fellow half-breed, and she only killed for food and the safety of herself and any she might be traveling with. she did have a bit of an ego, but being deadly quick and impossibly agile and strong, she had earned it a little
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:57 pm
((Nikolai shifted to a full-puma form before he left the house. He didn't transform until after he went inside Mrs. Cake's house.))
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:09 pm
((Oh, sorry about that. I though he had stayed in that half-human-puma form while he was traveling through the snow. I'll change it to just puma, then)
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