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The day was cool, a light wind whipping the leave about the yard; a swirling mass of orange red and brown. Fall seemed to be in full swing, almost to the point were it was ready to give way to the harsh winter. The breeze was cool on the skin as it filtered through the partly open window. An orange cat sat in that same windowsill and looked out. His green tail flicked lazily as gray hues watched with mirth the little kitunks horse around. They were out there raking the leaves as punishment, as Remi explained, they had broken a few rules and items in the house. Teenagers were hyper and sometimes unintentionally destructive.

Quint sighed softly, his head resting against the cool glass as he stared out the window. He was dressed for the weather, tight skinny jeans and a soft warm black sweater. Socks even on his small feet, which was a breakthrough according to some of the others in the home. Normally he took to wearing nothing but over time he'd become fond of clothing much to his house mates pleasure.

In the corner of his gaze, he spotted a tiny spider skittering ear his feet. Sittign up more, his first instint was to squish it with his book. However, memories of an old friend flitted across his mind and he didn't have the heart too. Crawling off the bench, he gently picked up the spider and let it crawl off his hand and onto the outside of t he house. “There..... now go where you wont get trampled...” he whispered softly.

Quints ears twitched and swiveled at the light creaking sound he heard but passed off as someone else in the house. He was content till he felt a ran touch his hair. Then at the voice that accompanied it, he jumped, clearly startled. Turning so fast he almost could hear his neck snap, he looked up.

"A-Ashes?" He stammered. Gray eyes were wide with surprise, shock and another mixture of emotions. "Where.... what... where have you been? Poor Chardin has been beside himself!" He got up quickly. He colored a little seeing him standing there nude but held his head and tilted his head up as not to see. "Yeah.... somewhere around here.... come...you have some explaining to do" He said, his tail puffing up a little.

The last he remembered was of Chardin saying something about him being down bellow, whatever that meant. He had looked everywhere for Ashes with the spider but with no luck. Taking the others hand with his smaller orange, he guided him back upstairs to his bedroom.

The house was fairly empty now, alot of thsoe who had once lived here had left to do their own things, leavign the house to Quint, Llyr and a few scattered others who came in and out. Llyr hadn't been around much, the little reaper mouse doing this and that for death.

Suppressing a shiver from the others thumb movements on his hand, he flicked his ears back and cast the other a a strange look, though he knew the other couldn't see it. "Ah I see...." He murmured softly, eyeing the clenched hand wearily. " But yes this is my home with a few others...... the Kitunks are here with Remi and Sandalon is away, so we must get you upstairs and dressed so the teens don't have to see you nude" He said offhandedly and sighed.

"Chardin has been well... He's with Llyr right now actually.... He quite often stays here though at times he does disappear to where I assume you and him used to be staying to wait for you to return..." Quint explained softly and stopped at the stair well. "There are ten steps right in front of you, equally spaced, then a small plat form before a turn then another set of twelve steps till we are on my floor...."

Guiding him up the stairs, he paused upont he question to Llyr. " He's.... well enough I suppose.... I think the Grim reaper is toying with him however... sending him on small tasks here and there yet still not calling him a true reaper..... but he still tries to prove himself.... though they say he is too sensitive still..."

"Llyr likes taking care of Chardin as do I... so its not a big deal really" The feline smiled a little and started up the stairs carefully. He couldn't help but snort and grin a little at the others description of the Grim Reaper and smiled a little.

"Never the less, he is still Llyr's superior and the poor mouse has to do as he is told by him....." Quint said softly. As they got higher up the house would smell more and more of Chardin since the spider normally slept in Quints bedroom. Since Llyr was out mostly at night for training, it was less lonely in Quints room.

Quint blinked softly as he led the other into his room and did shiver this time with the contact with his tail. "U-uh yeah he does..." He murmured softly. He tried to think of where soem clothes for the other would be but he was distracted by the tail movements to his. "Mmmm...... I haven't met him so I can;t judge..... nor do I wish to mee thim any tiem soon"

"He was no bother...... he's a sweet heart really..." Quint smiled and let go of the others hand and went to his closet. "My beds to your left...... you can sit while I look for clothes"

"Well I can't have you walking around the house naked with teenagers around...." Quint said softly. "Perhaps Desmond left some clothes behind in his old room.... they would fit you no problem...." He murmured softly and tapped his chin. The feline knew the other wouldn't fit into anything of his as Quint was much much smaller t hen the other. "Oh and do you need anything else Ashes?" He offered, unsure of what the other would need after surfacing after so long.

Biting his lip softly, he remembered that him and Desmond never ah..... got along. "Sorry...." He mumbled softly and stood int he doorway. At the others request, his face turned bright red, his heart speeding up a little. He should have known, sometimes he forgot what the other fed on, no wonder he showed up at his house.

"A-Ashes...." He stammered, looking at the other then back over his shoulder towards the stairwell. Closing the bedroom door, he puffed up his tail as he tried to calm himself. "Now A-ashes, with the kids downstairs we shouldn't! What if they hear hmmm? and your version for a 'snack' often turns into something else entirely!"

Frowning a little, his silence gave away to a soft sigh as he knew he wouldn;t win. "Fine fine... Let me go get the clothes and then you can have your snack" He murmmured softly and headed back to opent he door. "And don;t let Sandalon or Remi hear you say that..... they want their babies to be perfect pure angels int heir minds" He giggled a little.