Taokaka ☼ 【タオカカ】 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
catus_carnival) wrote2012-10-28 09:08 pm
catus_carnival) wrote2012-10-28 09:08 pm
Cat Spirit 23! [Action]
[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.]
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.]
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Okay, I guess I can accept being your friend...but! [And here he holds up a finger, to interrupt before she can potentially say anything else about that.] I haven't decided yet if I can count you as my friend too. I gotta do a quick and short friendship test first before I can decide.
[Crow what the hell are you talking about now...]
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A friendship test, meow? Uh-oh...Tao's not good at tests.
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[Holds up one finger as he says that. A long, dramatic pause for effect, and then...]
...Do you remember what my name is? [His actual name, not the nicknames you call him by.]
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[She actually can remember names...it's just that she prefers not to use them.]
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Second question: Do you like pirates? What's your opinion of them? Have you ever met any or read any books about them?
[...Technically that's like three questions right there but who cares, he certainly doesn't.]
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I don't really know what a pirate is, but they sound awesome! And Tao doesn't remember meeting any pirates...Tao doesn't read a lot of books either. All those words are too hard for meow!
[And if she has met any, she's probably forgotten by now...]
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[...Yes, Crow is saying that reading is fun. Also he seems to have vaguely forgotten about this "friendship test" he was doing at the moment.]
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But Tao's not good at reading either! Looking at a bunch of pages all day isn't very fun, meow.
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[Though she wouldn't mind trying...before giving up and having to ask Crow what this or that word meant every few seconds.]
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Tao will try it. But if it's too hard for meow, then I told you so!
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Fine--at least trying is better than nothing. And it won't be too hard. I just have to go get it first.
[Should we make you wait here or would Tao end up following anyway...]
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Okay! I'll come with you!
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[Because there he goes, dashing off across the roof to the next one back towards the house!]
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[Oh ho! Keep up, she does, given how she's darting around on all fours too! Chasing Crow is a lot better than chasing stupid spiders or bats any day...]
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...This may or may not have just turned into a race to see who can get back to the house first.]
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Heh, you're actually really fast! I don't think I've had anyone actually be able to keep up with me like that before!
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[She's a tiny bit out of breath, but she barely takes any time at all to catch it.]
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It should be over here, I think. [Yayyy going over towards Seto's room. Best friend we're gonna be taking our book back that you borrowed from us for a moment, and once he does find it and get his hands on it, he turns it around for Tao to see. It's...a very thin book: an old children's picture book, titled "Pirate Isle"] This is the book I was talking about!
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Pi...Pirate...Isle. Pirate Isle!
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[In our humble opinion, of course. He opens it up to the first pages for Tao to see--it's a picture book, only about a few easy to read sentences worth of text on each page accompanied with colorful art, as it tells about an ordinary boy living an ordinary life. But then one day, he met a strange boy with a slightly mean attitude towards people, who claimed to be a pirate!]
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[Fortunately, the sentences are simple enough for her not to misunderstand!]
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[As the story progresses, the pirate and the boy end up getting caught up in an adventure of sorts, of looking for treasure on an island and fighting off other pirates and basically what you'd expect for a children's book telling a story about pirates. Tao may or may not notice though that the way the pirate kid acts is very similar to Crow's usual attitude...]
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