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

[mewtation]

[ makes a soft, sneezy sort of noise. probably a sigh, from the way he relaxes and shuts his eyes ]

I'm glad you think so.

[lonelydemon]

Company can be annoying, but too little can be lonely. Isn't it sad, though?

[mewtation]

?

[lonelydemon]

Getting rid of their memories. Safety is a good reason of course, but it still seems too sad...

[mewtation]

... It isn't something I like doing, no. But it's better than letting the knowledge of me stay and lead to inconvenience or worse.

[lonelydemon]

So pragmatic... Yes. You aren't wrong at all.

[mewtation]

[ tilts his head a little, thoughtfully ]

Is it pragmatic?

[lonelydemon]

Mm, somewhat? That's how it strikes me.

[mewtation]

Interesting. I'm typically told it's selfish.

[ he doesn't "say" that as though it bothers him ]

[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.