[VIII]

[one_that_leads]

[Video Post]
[There isn't much to see. Just an empty, half-collapsed room, some sand, some small footprints. And then there's Katan:]

Lord Rosiel, may I present to you this... ... ... ...most noble of beasts...

[And then this happens.]



[It is displeased.]

I encountered it in the desert today. It's very fierce and refuses to be left behind.

[Yowling.]

... It seems...an honorable creature...

[That's it, Katan. Just...reach for your reasoning. Why not? Critter won't leave, so make something good of the situation. Or something. And there's yowling, but the video is turned off again and--]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: Cut for a large SFW-but-weird image. Some of you know it, some of you are meeting it for the first time. This is Katan Sr. Katan Jr. doesn't remember Katan Sr. (the cat, of course) because of all his going and coming from the City. But Katan Sr. remembers... Katan Sr. remembers very well. He's back.]

Comments

[bedsidemanners]

..... That's the ugliest creature I've ever seen.

[one_that_leads]

It's very gregarious too.

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[shall_yield_us]

Ka...

[shall_yield_us]

...tan...?

[shall_yield_us]

...you may hide behind me.

[bedsidemanners]

How in the world did you decide it was honorable?

[one_that_leads]

... It won't let me go.

[one_that_leads]

Its tenacity. Among other things.

[shall_yield_us]

And how.... formidably... necessary would you say all your parts are?

[one_that_leads]

I would like to keep my fingers, Lord Rosiel.

[C'mon, you gave 'em to me. Try to understand.]

[shall_yield_us]

Raphael... can construct ones new, if the need should... ahem.

[one_that_leads]

I can sacrifice a sleeve instead.

[shall_yield_us]

...there, there. I'll take it.

[one_that_leads]

The creature?

[shall_yield_us]

Your sleeve?

[one_that_leads]

It might be simpler to give you both.

[shall_yield_us]

I'll have the creature, Katan.

[one_that_leads]

I'm sure it will take better to you than it did to me.

[shall_yield_us]

That, or tear me apart.

[one_that_leads]

I wouldn't let it.

[shall_yield_us]

It's a cat, not one of Lucifer's men. Surely.

[one_that_leads]

It may be a cat.

But I still wouldn't let it.

[shall_yield_us]

Then you have my first and last and truest word, the cat will mind itself. There.

surprais 2/2 >>!

[shall_yield_us]

...unless you've grown an - attachment to it.

[one_that_leads]

I would rather not see it dead.

[shall_yield_us]

...Katan. You think I'll end it.

[one_that_leads]

It would mind itself perfectly in that state.

[shall_yield_us]

You think I would take your charge and kill it without a second glance.

[one_that_leads]

No.

[...there might be a second glance]

[shall_yield_us]

And yet here I stand, implicitly accused. And I, a perfect innocent. Well, then.

Perhaps I should give you reason for suspicion. I'll have the cat.

[one_that_leads]

I did offer him to you.

He's yours.

[shall_yield_us]

Yes, you offer him: offer him with a faint heart, waiting on my butchering hand. Pah.

[one_that_leads]

A pledge of trust, Lord Rosiel.

[shall_yield_us]

...I should wring your throat for that.

[one_that_leads]

Likely so.

[valentineluke]

....

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[worldofourown]

...

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[worldofourown]

It has your eyes, good sir.

[one_that_leads]

[You know it. You love it]

[one_that_leads]

It isn't mine in that way.

[worldofourown]

A humble offering for your chatterbox Lord, I take it?

[one_that_leads]

Yes.