test... drive...?

[mewtation]

[ WHOEVER YOU ARE, wherever you sleep: there is a cat in your bed.

or. well. something that looks sort of like one...? if cats were four and a half feet tall and roughly humanoid. um. ]

Comments

[lonelydemon]

There's nothing wrong with protecting yourself.

[mewtation]

[ tilts head the other way? ]

To a point, arguably. However, I'm not protecting myself.

[lonelydemon]

Everything to a point, arguably.

How isn't it protecting yourself?

[mewtation]

I am not the one in need of protection.

[lonelydemon]

S'that so?

[mewtation]

It is.

[lonelydemon]

Aah. That's always good.

[mewtation]

[ makes a nearly inaudible "pwrrt!" sort of noise, and then starts grooming a forearm ]

The people who know how to find me know that they can't make me return, and that I won't consent to doing so if they bother anyone who doesn't know of the situation. The people who think they can coerce me and don't care about my willingness can't tell where I've been aside from finding evidence of my passing. So it isn't something I do for my own safety, mostly.

[lonelydemon]

Are you still in contact with them? Your... makers, I mean.

[mewtation]

Not at the moment.

[lonelydemon]

I definitely didn't expect that.

[mewtation]

[ pauses to tilt his head again, then goes back to washing between his toes. fingers? paw washing, regardless ]

Why not?

[lonelydemon]

Aaah, rather, I did expect you to not be in contact with them? 'Cause I'd kind of assumed you're on the run. But the way you talked about the people who know how to find you kind of rung of them being associated with where you're from.

[mewtation]

They are. Which is why they know my capabilities well enough to understand they can't force me to return to service. I am not on the run from them so much as "on strike," or perhaps "absent without leave."

[lonelydemon]

You must be impressive.

[mewtation]

[ makes that stupid soft trilling noise again ]

When I wish.

[lonelydemon]

That's humble for a cat.

[mewtation]

[ big innocent eyes ]

Well, you were complimenting my capabilities as a weapon, rather than as a cat. If you were calling the softness of my fur impressive, that would be a different story.

[lonelydemon]

I would have to test your softness before making such compliments!

[reaching to pet though, i know permission when i hear it]

[mewtation]

[ yes good flopping over to one side for ease of access. he's got velvety fur, very dense and soft without being too long

that outside feeling of pleased contentment is back, but depending on where Ryner is touching him he might be able to feel the vibration of the inaudible purr that goes with it ]

[lonelydemon]

Hmm, I'd say this is a decent kind of softness.

[mewtation]

[ wow excuse. mock-huffy ]

Only decent? I suppose you can tell me what you've felt that was softer, then.

[lonelydemon]

And if I said puppies?

[mewtation]

[ ...he's no longer mock-huffy. giving him this absolutely disgusted judgy cat look ]

I would say that your heathen hands don't deserve the honor of touching me.

[lonelydemon]

[c-cracks the fuck up]