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Facing the Harvest (P); Shan
Topic Started: Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:38 pm (1,137 Views)
Shan Orison
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"Hey, come back, I...hrmm," Shan said, giving on on trying to chase the cat. He'd tried that enough times to know it was fruitless to catch a cat who didn't wish to be caught. With the whirring whos and chirps in his ear, he knew Owlcifer and Cricket wanted to know the plan. "Well, it doesn't like me. It definitely loves Dali, and said Dali goes away to 'the bad place' that makes him sad, but it's hardly...enlightening. Still more than I got from the barkeep, though."

He knelt down a few feet from the bush, close enough to watch the cat, but not so close it decided to bolt even further away. He needed something to distract the cat and bring it back out to get caught, some toy or treat or...he sighed again.

"Owlcifer," he said, reaching up to the loosened laces on his shirt collar, made even looser in the scuffle in the tavern. "I'm going to tie these loosely on one of your legs, alright? I need you to buzz low over the ground in front of the cat and lure it out and toward me, alright?"

Owlcifer hooted in happy compliance. Cricket chirped in angered alarm. Without the Fluency spell set to one of them, Shan had to guess what the exact words were. Either way, the more important player in the plan stuck out a limb and patiently let Shan tie the lace on, letting a long strand drift down toward the ground. "Remember," Shan said, feeling something bound from Owlcifer's feathery head to his own. "Just get low enough so the string is hanging about a foot above the ground, okay? We want it to go after the string, not you. Cats can jump higher than you'd think."

"Hoo!" Owlcifer said happily, His wing beat against Shan's head and his talon's tightened slightly as he launched off Shan's shoulder, gaining altitude and beginning to make laps back, forth, and back again, in front of the bushes, the long lace hanging below the owl, occasionally brushing the ground before the bush. Shan watched, ready to grab the kitten if he could and, this time, hold it far more securely by the legs and neck.
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"Ooooooo.....stringstringstringstringstringstring!" The kitten took a swipe at it the first time it went by and then got very quiet. The string went by again without so much as a bat. And then again.

The third time it went by the kitten's butt wiggled.

The fourth time the kitten burst from the foliage shouting, "Stringstringstringstring!" But when it saw Owlcifer that shout became, "FEATHERS! Playtime feathers! Come down feathers!"

It made a jump a the owl and missed, hitting the string. Offended, it the bit it. And that made the bird stop. The kitten was so surprised it let go. "Augh! NoNoNo!"

Again the kitten made a run for the string, pounced it, and grabbed it. It then proceed to get said string wrapped around its paw, so when it saw Shan coming, escape was out of the question. "Cheat," it muttered.
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"Got you," Shan said, grabbing the kitten, cupping under its legs to secure them between his fingers, and pulled up the skin on the nape of the cat's neck. It was too old for that to completely immobilize it, but it should keep it from squirming away again. "Yes, I'm a cheat, but so are cats.

"Now, then," Shan said, staring at the cat as Owlcifer landed, pulling the lace off his leg with his beak. "I need to know about Dali, the bad place he goes to and..." Shan sighed. "Except you don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?" He bowed his head and sighed again. "You're a cat. I can't really talk cat, so there's no way for you to actually get how important this is..." Shan wanted to rub away the headache that was starting up in his forehead, except that would mean forgoing the kitten. "I just...I wish you could understand I'm trying to help..."

Shan lifted his head, ready to try a long line of attempts to get the cat to understand. He blinked, all his plans faltering at what he saw. With his right eye, he saw the usual coursing of rust red mana that indicated a living thing and the playful flairs of black shadow that all cats seemed to have, indicating their own closeness to the shadows. With that, though, was a coursing of silver lightning, originating from Shan's own hands and settling in the kitten's small, wrinkled head, crackling and spreading within its cranium.

"Oh, no," Shan said, staring. "Oh no no no no no, stop, stop! Wait!" But the magic had already flown, and it didn't retract at Shan's pleading. Shan watched as the lightning finally finished whatever work it was doing on the cat, settling and fading within its brain. Shan winced all the while, uncertain what to do and guilty as all hell.

"....Kitty?" Shan said after it was done. His stomach sank. How was he going to explain this to Dali?

...
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The kitten had gone very quiet and still. He was thinking and doing so without the determent of that madness all kittens seem to be victim to. In short, for the first time in his life, he was able to focus.

What it was focusing on, however, was that somewhere there were feathers that he needed to chase and catch. Unfortunately, it seemed he was being restrained by something much bigger than he was. This restraint didn't seem to be unkind, nor uncomfortable (indeed, it was pleasantly warm - which is a big deal when you have a high body temperature and no fur), but - still - there were more important things to be done. Things that involved feathers.

"...Kitty?" The voice above him was wary.

"My name is Rekki," the cat said. "Let go of me before I pee all over your hand."
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"Oh, no," Shan said. He let himself collapse to the ground, the cat getting bumped quite a bit before he settled. "Oh, no no no, I did do it again..." His arms lowered, giving the kitten room to leap down the last few inches to the ground. Shan learned, after the fact, that he somehow had the ability to make animals...more than animals, giving them a sentience and intelligence equal to that of a human. It'd been limited to two instances, as far as Shan knew: the owl and the cricket, the former of which lept back into the air to settle on Shan's shoulder, watching the kitten carefully.

"I...I'm sorry, Rekki," Shan said, knowing he was dealing with something far closer to his equal now. "I didn't mean...I'm a friend of Dali's...your person? I want to help him, but I need to know what sort of situation he's in, and you're my only source of information."
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Rekki looked at Shan, wrapped up in his own feline thoughts. Finally, he said, "I'm not sure what kind of trouble my Person is in and I certainly don't know why. I was a lot younger when we first reached here. I think we were meant to pass through, but...my Person started sleep walking and one day he just didn't come back. That much I remember. I followed his scent to a cemetery and to an open grave there. I couldn't figure out what had happened, and I got cold, so I came back. Days later, I don't know how many, he walked through the door, reeking like he did when you met him. At first Big Feet tried to throw him out, but he started ranting and railing about something living in the cemetery - something that might come and get Big Feet and the Others. After that it's been like it was tonight. Well, except for the bit where you were there." He scratched an ear with his foot. "If you think you can figure out what happened to him, I can take you to where he goes."

When Shan was ready, Rekki bounded off into the darkness in the direction of the road. They walked for maybe an hour and a half until they found themselves at the cemetery wall. The kitten jumped it and trotted off through the leaves, stopping twice to bat at seemingly random spots of movement only he could see. Finally, he walked up to an open grave, worn shallow by the passing of years and the accumulation of leaves. A rough headstone sat behind it, its writing long gone. Rekki hopped up on this forgotten monument and looked down at the leaves. "This is it."
Edited by Dali, Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:17 pm.
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