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 Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:06 pm
There was only so much computers could give him, and after days of staring at a screen and cursing the poor design of keyboards (with some episodes of Our Turning Times), he wanted nothing more than just a solid book in his hand to read. Currency was never something he understood, and no one would serve a cat with a credit card even if he got a name-tag with his name on it. Instead, he knew he just had to get into a store. If raccoons could do it, then he could, and he did it plenty of times to get out of the cold.
Wanting something a bit more basic than the latest thriller or teen-werewolf (honestly why wolves), he knew he had to go to a bigger establishment. Someplace more dated with their selection.
It took some wiggling, but he managed to get though the duct, into the walls, and pulled off a ceiling tile in a back storage room to get where he needed. Shaking off the dust and cobwebs from the ceiling, he looked up at the opening. That would be hard to get back up to, that was for sure. Back door might be a better option.
Jumping up, he pulled down on the door knob before dropping and pushing it open. Tail swishing, he lept up on a shelf and started walking down the rows to find the section on science he had saw on their website.
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:44 pm
Katya was a cat but she was better than your average cat, thank you very much. She was a guardian cat and she could talk and, more importantly, read. The only problem was acquiring books. Most of the time it meant asking her human, because he did belong to her, to purchase or borrow her books. Sometimes though you just had to do things yourself, humans were not always the most reliable especially when they were busy behind a locked bedroom door. She understood such....needs...but she needed a new book!
It wasn't a new book, as in the books age, but it was a rather old book and after countless hours at a keyboard she had a manged to track it down. She still couldn't get into her humans room, no noise was coming from the room, so she had decided to slip out the back door and do see if she couldn't find a way into the bookstore herself.
The walk wasn't so bad, though she had gotten a few looks from people whom she could only assume were drunk and on their way home...or to some other place, but she finally made it! The bookstore was large, meaning they hopefully had a large selection of books.
As she moved to the door, intending to peek inside and see just what they had, she could feel it...another like herself? No...order. Tail moving behind her she pulled back, away from the door, and went to find her own way inside. If another cat was in there, though she was just assuming, she soon found a way in and landed on the floor of the back room.
"Is someone else here?" She called out, testing the waters sort to speak.
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:57 pm
He felt the chaos signature, but had dismissed it on the thought that HE was INSIDE and if it was a agent, it wouldn't come into a bookstore of all places for him. If they did, he could scurry out in time up into the roof. If it was a youma, well, he was still inside. Inside was safe, and he curled up on the shelf as he read book spines one by one, reaching up to paw back a book to read it's title.
It was then that he heard the voice, and startling, he jerked back.
And the book he had been inspecting slid back and hit the ground with a heavy, loud THUD!
Bristling, he looked about before doing his best to play off that he gave off his position. "Me...Meow?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:42 pm
The sound of a something hitting the floor, she assumed it to be a book, had her jumping. Startled the guardian cat was cautious in peeking around the door leading from the back room into the main part of the store.
The noise of another cat caught her attention and relaxed her, she hadn't noticed she had tensed up so much, and the pearl wearing cat entered into the stores main room.
"It's not polite to insult my intelligence in thinking I will buy that. No normal cat can get in here like you did..." And no normal cat felt like this one did either. Green eyes peered about as the russian blue was looking for the history section, maybe she'd look for something for her human as well.
"Tell me, what is a cat who works on your side doing breaking and entering? You would think that would be something your side wouldn't do." She purred out. Raising up onto her back legs in order to gain some height, so she could read the titles of some books, the writing on a book cover having gotten her attention in passing. Was this cat going to be like the last order cat she'd run into? Would there be hissing, biting, claws and blood? It wasn't that she was opposed to the idea but she did want to avoid it if she could, in favor of the books here.
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:20 pm
It wasn't what he thought, and hearing the voice, he turned and started walking down the bookshelves looking around, ears turning about at the purr before he jumping across a corner to a side table before jumping up onto another shelf and walking across it as he searched.
"I don't know about that. How can there be rules for something no one really knows exists?" He said, moving before he stopped as the sight of ghostly light fur in the dark. A moment to lick his paw and wipe his head and glasses and he started to make his move over.
He started to head over, forgoing his book search for now as he landed down. "I wouldn't think anyone else would be breaking into the same store as me. Looking for some place warm from the cold?" He ventured as he drew slowly closer. .
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:19 pm
"No one knows exists? Oh, but we do." She answered calmly, while running a paw over the binding of a book. Reading over the title silent, it wasn't what she was interested in but it was interesting. Maybe this one would come home with her also - somehow. She had to figure a way out of here with a book or two...or several.
"Ask any person involved in this war. They will say that there are rules...that there are ways to define the sides, even while breaking them. But stealing...from civilians...breaking and entering...that seems more like something they'd pin on chaos rather than order."
Seating herself back onto all four paws she turned her green eyes onto him, a serpent like smile in place. "Warmth is nice but not needed, I have a human - a General. I'm here for the books." She answered, no reason to hide it. He could see her looking at the books, rather than just curling up to sleep. She was a well pampered cat, as she had better always be - she deserved it.
"Tell me....which order cat is it who breaks into fine establishments like this?" She asked, her words again purring as she spoke. her eyes finding the others white body and staying focused on him.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:21 am
"I've been breaking into places for years. I'd be dead otherwise, and I have yet to be put in handcuffs for it." He said as he stood before her, a slender figure of pure white with glasses, a slender collar of gold and a blue, transparent fridge, and one key on a chain.
"Arthur, my dear. It's a pleasure to have your company this evening." And he gave the best cat equivalent of a bow he could. It was a different game talking with a fellow Mauvian than to address a normal cat and required more verbal manners.
She had mentioned she was with a General, but they weren't here and for that all else was no concern to him.
"May I ask who you are? Mistress of the night seems a crime for someone so radiating."
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:56 am
Well, now that was interesting. An order kitty who had a thing for breaking and entering, though it sounded like he did it for living purposes. Still...not exactly something she figured order would approve of, at least not many of them.
"Katya." She returned while giving something of a bow, though she did keep her green eyes on him. Slender and with what was called a blue coat, more like a steel grey of sorts, she was well built with short hair and dressed like a princess of sorts...if the cloth crown was anything to go by.
"Mistress of the night seems both lacking but also intriguing and to hold an air of mystery and something else to it." She stated while righting herself. Watching the paler Mauvian. "Tell me...do you flatter every Mauvian you meet or am I just lucky tonight?" Well, tonight had taken a turn with this meeting...and one she wasn't minding.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:35 pm
"No, no. The Mauvians I meet are a bit....young for my taste." At least some of them were only just kittens, though a few others.....
"Oh, I'd say the luck is all mine.." And if he could get lucky tonight, then all the better. "....Well Mistress Katya, what topic brought you here far from your General? I should at least know what subject to be jealous about." He moved over to her, sitting down before her.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:49 pm
"Kittens...I've only seen one kitten on my side of the fence." She could remember him, not distinctly but she could. Annoying...rolling about and making a nuisance of himself. She had remained silent on it till now, aside from when at home after the meeting she'd voiced herself to Benitoite. She wasn't a fan of children in this war - be it human or Mauvian. But with another of her own kind she had even less tolerance, they were guardians and had a duty that was more important. They had to take care of those who fought...make sure they were doing well, mentally and physically. To see one flopping about...and a kitten no less. Nope.
Ohhh...he was flattering but those pretty words were oh so pretty. She preened under them as she sat herself down primly. Her tail curling about her feet while she watched him. "History...I believe we can learn from the past, be they mistakes or triumphs. And what brought you here of all places? Which books garnered your interest so much....although..." Here she dropped to a purr again.
"It seems I'm a bit of a distraction for you..." He might be on the other side of the war, she could feel that loud and clear enough, but he was also a Mauvian and maybe in time she could taint him...
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:11 pm
"Actually, just the opposite. You see I'm here to research lenses. Astrology. Photography. Ways to direct and refract light." He lifted up a paw, touching his glasses to dismiss them all together.
As they dissolved out of existence, he leaned in closely, stepping forward to lean into he space. "....but I think your eyes capture unforeseen galaxies that no book could ever dare to capture on a page." He purred slowly, stepping ever closer to her without stopping.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:26 pm
"Lenses...interesting." Why would be searching for information on such a thing? On directing and refracting light? Science wasn't her thing, not at all, so she hadn't a clue why he or anyone would be looking up such things. It was something she'd mention to someone...later though - not now.
Now he was watching as his glasses vanished, wondering just how he'd managed to do that. Could she with her own little hat or necklaces? It wasn't something she'd ever thought to do, she rather liked looking like the princess she was. But as he approached, poured on the charm, she found herself purring and raising a paw to touch a cheek of his. "You do speak the most flattering of words...and flattery will get you very far." At least with her. She was one who liked to be treated a certain way...pampered, flattered. She was a jealous thing though...she could get very jealous - she did have green eyes after all.
"Your's are like oceans...vast and blue but with unforeseen depths...in need of someone to explore those...depths." If he could lay on the flattering words so could see, when she wanted- like now. "Tell me...are you all talk or is there action behind those words..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:51 pm
Now flattery back was NOT what he expected, and he was temporarily dazed as he stared back, blinking in response. When it clicked on that she was just as much into the mood as he was, his tail started to curl and sway to life as he turned his head into the paw at his cheek before moving closer.
"Possibly. How about you dive in?" And he moved in now, the final minuscule distance, to kiss her.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:16 pm
"With pleasure." Came the sultry words from the russian blue. Unwraping her tail from around her legs she took the time to glance about. This was not a very...appropriate place...perhaps the back room? Or somewhere more...out of the way? Rubbing her cheek to his she spoke of moving this elsewhere in the store.
"We should move this elsewhere...not so in the open..." A nicer place would be more appropriate. Neither of them were like hormonal human teenagers - thankfully.MoonKitsune I'll let you skip it to morning.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:28 pm
Older shops were usually designed with a nicer break area and office, and he found a nice throw blanket from the back room and found a comfortable lounge chair that looked as if it would be bettered suited in a fireplace. It was well worn which made it comfortable, and with the throw, it made it warm. It was far better than some back alleyway or some closet, and afterwards, appetite sedated, he curled about Katya and affectionately groomed her before falling asleep.
The morning had it's own problems. Someone would be opening the shop in the morning, and in the glow of the morning, he nudged the Chaos Guardian awake. "Katya. We should get going."
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