Welcome to Gaia! ::

Sylvia - or at least, the small, matted black-and-white-and-mud furry mess that at one point had identified as Sylvia - was trying to rustle up some dinner. It was obscene, really, how few people in this area of town had the decency to leave out any scraps. She was instead forced to predate on some of the other creatures that skittered through the city streets.

In this case, it was a squirrel. She hated squirrels. This one had been particularly stupid, abandoning the safety of the nearby trees to come down and probably beg for nuts or something. Isn't that what they did?

The endless litany of thought rushed through the back of the cat's mind like so much static. I am a cat, not a person, she told herself firmly. I am going to kill this squirrel and then eat it and then probably find somewhere dark and relatively dry to sleep, and I will not continue cataloging daily activities of rodents-

ACHOO!

The squirrel ran, and Sylvia turned, tail flicking irritably. She hadn't noticed a human approaching, but she sensed an unpleasant, off color note in the back of her mind. Order. Her ears pricked. She'd been alone with her thoughts for so long that the idea of interaction, even with a mamby-pamby, snot dripping senshi, was almost...

Welcome.

"Bless you, idiot," she called out in a sing-song voice.