CAN’T CUT YOU UP AND HIDE YOU // JOINING

[FARE]

there are wars raging out there but i

One. Two.

Two beings had joined me, one a tiger who’s eyes were glassy, reflective. Maybe she had something going on with them? I would peer at the girl in curiosity, my paw carefully setting down the note that I had been holding up and then placing it carefully under my hind paw. I couldn’t let any harm come to that note.

The second one who had also come up appeared to be a smaller feline, a domestic cat. He reminded me of the cat I had once had at the compounds, it had been a sleek black and white tom cat, very playful and spry. This one didn’t seem to be as much. He looked as if he were in pain, if I told the truth. You never lie, what are you saying? my monochrome eyes would take in the flowers growing from his form and then the glow that was coming from the tigress’ pelt and I’d take a moment to stare. Never in all my life….

The woman spoke and then the male was writing something, showing me. A flash of teeth would appear, something akin to a smile, on my features as my brain tried to formulate a response in my shock at the unnatural mutations I was seeing. A paw came up to nervously rub at my neck and I would speak, my voice falling out of my chest and into the air like the wind.


“I - ah, yes! Sorry, yes, home! My home is…. No longer reachable. So you see, I’ve been quite lonely. So…. Yeah. It wouldn’t be a problem for me to stay? I’d help contribute and everything. Uhm, is that type of thing normal around here?” I would ask, pointing at the glowing of the woman’s pelt and the foliage growing from the male’s. I would then start, hastily rising to my paws in a panic, blurting out more words that lashed at my throat. ”name! My name is juli— vintagespin. But you can call me vin if you want.”

All this would end up with an awkward chuckle, ears pressing back against my head in slight embarrassment. Don’t mess this up!

have miles to go before i sleep!
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