Cat Spirit 23! [Action]

[catus_carnival]

[With ~spooky~ changes comes ~spooky~ behavior. Well, not really. This sort of hunting is par for the course with Tao.

All throughout today, there will be a catgirl here or there. There will be a catgirl anywhere, all over the village, trying to put her boundless energy to use. It's the thrill of the hunt! And her prey? ...Rats! And bats. And the occasional spider.

Because what better person/animal to take care of the rat problem than her? She's got to put those beastkin instincts to use sometime. Tao can be found zipping all over the village, taking off at full speed, running or on all fours, and chasing down rats in particular. Though if bats fly by your head, she'll go for them too. Spiders are fair game as well.

Point is, she's up and about trying to catch/hunt down these critters, and if you're in the way, better get out of it.]

Meow, meow, meow!? You get back heeeeeeeeeere!

[...Try not to get barreled into. Or trampled. Or crashed into. Or accidentally pounced upon.]

Comments

[hisapprentice]

Stop! Tao! [It comes out the way it did when they were...weird crime family partners.] You're hurting me, and they're not worth chasing!

[catus_carnival]

[Okay, that gets her to stop...she didn't mean to hurt Luke. Little child. :c]

Oh...

[hisapprentice]

[Sigh did he hurt her feelings.]

It's okay. Just be careful, all right?

[catus_carnival]

Okay.

[Headtilt.]

If you're hurt, Tao can lick your wounds!

[hisapprentice]

[That sounds...appetizing...not really.]

No thanks. [Hastily getting up before she gets ideas.] Just watch that you don't jump on somebody else, all right?

[catus_carnival]

I'll try, meow!

[No guarantees, but...she tries.]

[hisapprentice]

Why are you chasing them, anyway? You don't plan to eat them or something like that I hope.

[catus_carnival]

Tao's hunting them down for practice!

[Though...maybe she was planning to eat them later.]

And they're all over the place...

[Pest control sure why not.]

[hisapprentice]

[He supposes regular cats don't really care if a human gets in their way either.]

Just watch out from now on. There are people here who'd get really mad if you knocked them down.

[catus_carnival]

Tao can take 'em!

[...Probably. Maybe not. That's not the point either, Tao...]

[hisapprentice]

Then you would get hurt and that would just be awful!

[catus_carnival]

I can fight, meow! And I get hurt, I'll just lick the wounds.

[Tao logic.]

[hisapprentice]

Uh...but you'll still be hurt. [Unless you have a magic cat tongue which, okay, he can't put past anybody here.

Still, though. Ew.]

[catus_carnival]

Then I can...

[...well, she'd always go to Litchi for those sorts of things, but since she's not here anymore...]

...go to the clinic later, meow.

[hisapprentice]

It's better if you don't get hurt at all in the first place, right?

[catus_carnival]

Uh...

......

......

I guess so!

[But she likes fighting...]

[hisapprentice]

You don't sound like you really think so though.

[catus_carnival]

Getting hurt is a part of fighting, meow.

[hisapprentice]

Getting hurt is terrible, and seeing your friends hurt is just as bad.

[Luke doesn't know it, but a boo is sneaking up behind him, giggling quietly.]

[catus_carnival]

...That's true, meow.

[The latter part hits closer to home but...oh wait. Boo. Her ears and tail perk up at the sight of it.]

[hisapprentice]

[Who knows what that Boo intends to do to him? It must not think Tao is looking at it - it's heading straight for Luke's head.]

So I wouldn't want to find out that anything happened to you, either.

[catus_carnival]

[Oh no!!! She completely ignores Luke's words and tries to swipe at the Boo. Unfortunately, since it's a ghost and actually farther away from her than she had thought...

...she might end up hitting Luke on the head with her paw.]

[hisapprentice]

[Whap.]

Ouch! [Tao hits hard. The Boo is shaking up and down in the air with the force of its laughter.] What was that for?

[catus_carnival]

[RUDE, Boo.]

The ghost was gonna get your head!

[hisapprentice]

[Rubbing his sore head, Luke frowns.] Ghost? What ghost?

[When he turns to look, the Boo covers its face with its hands in a mockery of a shy blush, and goes invisible.]