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Chuu padded along the beaten path next to the river contentedly, a live flapping fish clamped in her mouth. She'd been eating fish raw ever since she was young and though it disgusted many humans she found the taste of life most interesting. Purring through her mouthful she bit in to it and the sweet blood smell filled her nose. She chomped happily and came to a halt, watching Kyros at the stream. Intrigued she meowed around her fishy meal and flicked her ears absentmidedly.

[[She's got her panther ears and tail right now... I hope you dn't mind, I'm making her quite feral but her story means that she hasn't been around normal people enough recently to hide herself well.]]

Chuu mumbled something around the fish before pausing to swallow it whole. She took a breath, grinned and walked over.
"I caught that one further up stream, there's a spot where all kindsa fish are heading upstream." She flicked her ears again as an animal ran by the opposite side of the stream but she ignored it. "The water's a bit faster up there but with a net it'd be eeeeasy." She smiled and her tail whipped dust up around her feet, she was restless but fishing with Kyro might be fun so she stuck around to wait for a reply.

"Yay!" Chuu purred happily, already hungry again at the thought of fresh fish. She walked alongside Kyro, noticing the small feathers falling here and there.
"You moulting again Kryo?" she asked curiously. She knew for him it was different to her, she only shed fur in summer and that was regular like but Kryo's shedding was different. She never concerned herself with why really, she was too busy thinking of herself mostly. She liked her friends but being cat-like in nature she couldn't help but put herself first.

"Salmon... salmon," Chuu thought for a moment. "There might have been but I didn't catch any. Just have to go see!" She grinned, happy at the thought of fresh salmon. The stream grew wider as they walked and the ground slightly steeper so the water ran faster over the bare rock.

Chuu carefully padded over on the rocks and leapt over the mud so her bare feet barely touched the water. She sat down next to Kyros and looked at the occasional leaping fish.
"A lot of fish travel this time of year, and I'm pret-ty sure salmon are among them." She smiled gently and extended a claw she lashed out at apparantly calm water, spearing a small silver fish the length of her middle finger and popping it in her mouth absent mindedly.

Chuu grinned, not shouting incase the fish got scared.
"Yay!" she said quietly, waving her hands a little to pretend she was cheering. She laughed at herself before lying down on her stomach and poking at the fish in with water. There were so many tis time of year, some were too small to make it so she ate those. If she didn't eat them then something else would kill them.

"If strong fish go upstream to spawn then we get larger stronger fish next year. The less weak fish genes there are in that pool the better." Chuu grinned and looked in the water, spotting a fish about the length of her hand. She smiled smugly and leaned forwards; with one hand in the water a little distance away she positioned the other above the fish and brought it down quickly. She sat back up and killed the flapping fish with a swift stroke to the head before putting it on one side delicately. It wasn't for her; it was for some of the people in town. They didn't like her but so long as she went unseen they accepted her anonymous gifts and she felt better seeing such poverty-inflicted sadness lifted if only for a moment. Her own childhood had taught her that balence was key; those with more should really help those with less regardless of how much more or less there is. The only thing more she had right now was a small fish, but some in the town had next to nothing and families to support and so the fish traded hands and balence was restored.