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When she woke up the next morning, more than a bit bleary-eyed, she yawned and pulled a sheet around her. Peeking out the door, she glanced to the left, the right, and the left again before dashing to the bathroom to get her clothes. After all, she still had to go to work unlike some unnamed bums. >_o

As she stooped down to get her clothes after securely locking the bathroom door, she noticed Aly's were there as well. At first she thought nothing of it, but then her mind churned over the fact he had kept her panties. A little gremlin on her shoulder urged her to get even... toy with him, even.

Giggling to herself she pulled on her shirt and underwear, but then grabbed his pants and used her hair ribbon to go around the waist and hold them up. XD They bunched at the bottom and were WAY too big, but that was what made them charming. Rolling up the bottoms and slipping into sandals, she unlocked the bathroom door before porting out for work.

Aly was left with his clothes minus his pants. To replace the pants, Sy had left her pleated blue skirt. twisted

Mealtimes were one of the few times that Kiro left his own room. He wasn't sure why that was, perhaps he was just of an antisocial nature.

He raised a finger to gently pet Tsukai, who was sitting in his "usual" position beside Kiro's neck. "Seeds for you again?" murmured Kiro, not really expecting a response from the Aerandir. He knew there was a bag of them in one of the cupboards in the centre's kitchen. He might as well make himself a cup of tea while he was there.

He filled up the kettle before turning on the gas stove to heat the water. He was careful as he lowered the kettle to the heat. Firstly, burning yourself hurt, but it also had other consquences for him. Rather... fuzzy consequences.

He rumaged around for the bag of seeds, feeding a few to Tsukai while he waited for the kettle to boil. At the sound of the familiar hiss from the boiled kettle, he reached over to pick it up. It seemed, however his grip on it wasn't amazingly secure and as he burned himself with an audible hiss and a wince he dropped it.

Tsukai's next thought was one of confusion. With a flutter of his wings he took off from Kiro's shoulder, utterly confused and panicked. What had just happened?

...and more to the point... where had his human gone?!

It was a very good question, the Aerandir realised as he landed somewhat unevenly in the pile of clothing on the floor. He poked his beak into the arm of a disgarded T-shirt curiously. Then, a shape started shifting!! The human-thing was back!!

The white cat that lifted his head from the clothes wasn't what Tsukai had been expecting, not at all. Tsukai hopped forward a little, investigating. The cat then stood up, tilting his head at the Aerandir.

Then with a soft purr, the cat - Kiro - stood up, suddenly uninterested in the small mouse-like creature, and made for the door. Outside was bigger than inside after all...

((Off to the Forge))

Alyosha grinned as he walked to the door. He would play Sy at her own game, yes he would. Striding out into the corridor it could be seen that the man had a small blue skirt on, one which just covered all the necessities. It was rather pinched at the waist too. He also wore a white, long sleeved shirt and a flower tucked carefully behind his ear. He was going to march right over there and...

and.. what was that smell? Gas ? He walked through the centre, not noticing it's small inhabitants, towards the kitchen where the smell emanated from. The gas on the cooker appeared to be on with no flam. He quickly turned it off and was stopped from thinking about why the flame had blown itself out when he noticed the kettle and pile of clothes plus.. Tsukai. He watched the teeny Aerandir, recognising him instantly as the creature who he had lat seen as two tiny artifacts. No other Aerandir could be so small. Just behind him was a large white cat. All of this was rather strange.

He righted the kettle, still warm, onto the surface and scooped the clothes onto a pile on the worksurface. "Who might you be?" he asked the cat as he grasped for Tsukai, not wanting the small aerandir to be caught underfoot.

Hmm. He watched the little Aerandir hop out of his grasp. Unsurprising, such a speedy little thing. But... sitting on a cats head? Had Kiro brought a cat onto the Island without telling him? He kneeled down, hand outstretched towards the cat to let it smell his hands. Maybe he could pick it, with the aerandir, up and go and find Kiro. The thought of the clothes and spilled pot tickled at the back of his mind. They were Kiro's clothes no? He looked over his shoulder, confirming his suspicions. Guys clothes and definately not things Ieyasu or Orian would wear. Hmm.

He turned back to look at the kitty, flickers of what had happened to Sy in his mind.

"..here kitty?"

Alyosha gently, and with the presense of someone who knew animals well -being part one himself- leaned forward and picked up the slightly agitated looking kitty. He gave the small white cat a gentle stroke, tyring to keep him calm as he got to his feet, walking towards the main centre. He'd take him through to his apartments, maybe give him some time to relax, see if he could communicate with it. He was *almost* sure it was Kiro but he wanted to make certain.

He walked into the main centre, looking through the doors at the clouds scudding over the horizon. This nice day wasn't going to last long.

Alyosha blinked as he looked down. He was left speechless for a moment. His suspicioins had been confirmed but in a rather... odd manner. Somewhat coming back to his mornal self he grinned.

Held, in his arms, was a young man, ears twitching, face red, completely naked. He resisted the urge to stroke again. He was pretty, yes, but only a boy.

"Hello... Kiro-kun" he said, choking back a laugh.

Holy... crap...

Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrappity...

So... here he was, totally butt naked in Alyosha's arms... and then Sy decides to appear and start screeching bloody murder. This was definately not what Kiro would class as a 'good thing'.

So he did what any self respecting young man - "caught naked in a public place" would do. He squeaked comically, almost spectacularly leaped out of Alyosha's arms, and bolted, his hands desperately hiding his 'manly bits'.

The only reason Tsukai managed to keep up with the fleeing kitty-boy was because he'd grabbed onto Kiro's tail as he'd fled, somehow managing to hang on as Kiro sped through the centre, his door being heard to slam shut loudly behind him.

"Not what it looks like?" The words seem to come out of her mouth in a strange hiss, dripping with venom. She glared at him with growing fury. Kiro had just hastily sped away as if he were, indeed, a guilty party, and didn't offer any denial of what it looked like. This left only Aly, who would of course lie to save his a**.

"Do you think I'm a complete idiot? How DARE you! Sick my a**... so busy playing with your little protege! A CHILD by all means! And now you wear MY SKIRT for your sick little games?!" her voice was cold and collected, but at the same time it crackled, as if it's icy nature would soon explode and dark flames of anger would dance out.

Pissed was an understatement.

Delta, of course, had no notion of sex. Since she didn't wear clothes, her mother also hadn't really explained that fact that nakedness was a bad thing.... so the little gryphon didn't see the problem. The implied idea Aly had hurt the cat-boy who worshipped her and the fact her mommy was so angry only made Delta's adrenaline rush. Yes yes, bad Aly! She should help her mommy.

And so she dashed forward, crashing into Aly and clamping down her beak on the first bit of flesh she could find.