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Susan Pevensie ([personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote) wrote2024-05-21 08:54 pm

!!! [interlude]

Susan carefully wipes the mud from her boots before coming in from her morning archery practice. It's not warm out, but it's wet, and she's got rather mucked up whilst retrieving arrows. Her first stop is to deposit her dirty clothes in the hamper in her closet - which has seemed to expand even further since Lancelot moved in - to be washed immediately after she washes herself. Before she can shower, though, she must first wipe the arrows down, and then her bow. Then, to stay on the safe side, she sets about unstringing the bow so she can hang it and her coil of string with her other bows.

When she goes to start coiling the string, however, there's a tug on the other end. She frowns and kneels down. There's a flash of color, and then a flare of pain. She stares at her hand and the scratch across the back of it, and then at the culprit.

"Oh, aren't you a beauty," she breathes, reaching out to the Siamese cat tucked away between Lancelot's shoes. "Wherever did you come from?"

It takes her a good ten minutes to coax the cat out, and another ten to coax it into her arms. It's a girl, and not a kitten, though she does have a whiff of kittenhood still about her. "Do you belong to anyone?" Susan asks, but the cat isn't a Talking Beast, and doesn't answer.

Right. The first order of business shall be getting the cat some food. The second order of business shall be inventorying the residents to see if anyone has lost a cat she somehow hadn't caught wind of. She's nearly out the door when she realizes she's largely nude and still covered in streaks of mud, and carefully eases the cat onto the bed, instead. her actual first order of business ought to be washing quickly and getting dressed again. Then onto the rest of it.


Typist note: This is technically being posted as an interlude, given that Enjolras is doing an open post on the same topic at the same time, but if anyone wants to thread meeting Susan's new cat, I am MORE than happy to... I just don't want to overwhelm anyone!
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[personal profile] mothwingofriverclan 2024-08-18 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes. Until one of her twolegs died, and the other left her behind. He was old and sick, and the other twolegs took him away."
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[personal profile] mothwingofriverclan 2024-08-18 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes." Mothwing has obviously never met Ken and Jean, but Sasha had talked about them with something nearing reverence. "They were very important to my mother, but it's hard when twolegs and cats can't communicate directly. When clanmates die, you at least have other clanmates to take care of you. When a twoleg dies, no one's ever sure what the plan is."
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[personal profile] mothwingofriverclan 2024-08-19 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose you can never really avoid losing people in your life, though, whether you're a kittypet, a Clan cat, or a loner," Mothwing meows. "Or a twoleg, it seems. I'd just ask you make sure there's somewhere for your kittypet to go, if anything happened to you."
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[personal profile] mothwingofriverclan 2024-08-21 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course." Mothwing has a feeling that she will.