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Who: Ruby, the cat
What: the cat is a kitten and Ruby needs to go make sure he's okay... cuz he's a kitten.
When: Now
Where: the cat's room to the forest
Rating: PG-13 for Ruby's potty mouth.

Ruby sighed gustily and rose from her position atop her journal. "I'm going out, Pup." She didn't scream the announcement for once and she wasn't rude about it. This was mostly becauseh she sort of suspected she'd be coming home with another kitten. She looked at her little gray tabby. "Be good, Maia," She said before hopping out the window in front of her. She lifted her nose as she flew and breathed deeply, searching through the millions of scents around her for the cat's. There.

With a flick of her wings she dove toward the ground, circling around and shooting in the front doors of the castle. The cat appeared to be in the library.

It took her a couple minutes of working at the door handle with her paws to get it open and when she did she slipped inside and landed, folding her wings tightly to her back.

"Cat?!" she called curiously then grinned, "kitty, kitty, kitty..."
Oh god..she didn't have to MEOW did she? She couldn't really do that very well. She waited for an answer then with an angry look on her face opened her mouth and let out a loud mew. It had a strangely fluttery sound to it, almost like a bird... but it was still recognizably a mew.

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The cat, well 'kitten' technically, had been hiding under a chair, huddling up with his journal where he hoped he wasn't going to get kicked. The moment Soren had mentioned the possibility of someone trying to kick him, the kitten had forgotten his mission of "Find Mother" in favor of "Duck and Cover."

Tiny black ears perked as he heard the library door open, and then a voice he recognized began to call out. He hesitated, not sure whether it was safe to break cover, but it was the mew that did it. It was strange, and definitely not a normal cat-sound, but it was close enough.

Mewing loudly in reply, he had ran, half stumbled out from under the chair and towards the source of the sound.

Ruby was startled to say the very least. The cat was a handsome animal when he was full grown but she wasn't going to lie to herself. He was a very cute kitten.

She reached her back paw up and scratched behind her ear to give her a chance to think. Part of her was asking why the hell she'd thought it would be a good idea to come down here. Another part of her, the nicer part of her that didn't really emerge terribly often.

She looked at the kitten and flicked the end of her tail thoughtfully. "You're little," She finally managed to say. This was really strange. She had to say she was glad this kitten apparently didn't have any memories of Paradisa. That would be disturbing.

"I'm not little!" the kitten said defensively, puffing out his fur in an effort to make himself look larger. "You're big!"

Yeah, debating skills apparently came with age.

Still poofed out, legs planted wide for balance, the kitten suddenly looked up at Ruby, head tilted to the side in curiosity. Had he been his usual self, he would never have dreamed of even murmuring the words that he spoke next.

"You're a weird lookin' cat."

Ruby choked and the nicer part of herself that was glad she'd come down disappeared abruptly. She dug her claws into the floor beneath her and made a sound of frustration.

Breathe, she told herself, breathe. He didn't know any better. There would be no destroying of kittens.

She closed her eyes and forced herself to relax for a moment before sitting up quite straight and puffing out her fringe fur proudly. "I am not a cat," she said matter of factly before she stretched out one of her wings to be examined if the kitten wished. "I am a dragon. Cats just sort of look like us."

"Oh." he replied blankly, staring at the extended wing. Dragons were obviously some sort of bird... cat... thing. Completely unaware of how close he'd come to Ruby-induced-doom, he proceeded to pad forward, stick his nose in the feathers of the dragons wing, and sniff.

The force of the resulting sneeze was enough to send him teetering off balance to land on his rear, blinking and pawing furiously at his nose.

"Dragons smell funny."

Ruby actually gave him a good natured laugh at his last comment and wrinkled her nose at him. "So do kittens," she said and pretended to sneeze. She reached out and cuffed him playfully and as softly as she could possibly manage so as not to hurt the little fellow.

"And it's because we have magic, of course," she said with little grin down at him. She leaned down like she was going to tell him a fantastic secret, "Magic smells funny," She said to him in a low tone.

Batting at the tip of his nose one last time, the kitten looked up at Ruby first with an indignant glare, then blatant awe.

"Magic?" He knew what that was. If there was one things cats knew, it was the supernatural. The cats education when he was young had included a brief introduction into identifying and dealing with That Which Does Not Belong To This World. After all, he'd been raised a proper cat.

"Mother told us about magic! She said magic things were different from regular stuff, but she didn't say it smelled like that." he paused, and looked thoughtful for a moment. "This place is weird. I think it's magic. Why doesn't it smell like you?"

Ruby grinned at his expression when it hit him that she was magic. She hadn't necessarily expected him to react quite so strongly. She had to get used to the fact that the cat was not going to be reacting like his normal self for the next week or so.

She nodded to him, "This place is just a different kind of magic I guess. I don't know what's up with it to be honest. It's weird." She wrinkled her nose at him to emphasize the point.

She then flicked up her tail and stood, "Anyway, kid, you hungry? I've got a big hankering for some trout about now."