LUKE...I am your kitten. Maybe.

[flickerflash]

Who: Katie and you!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The horrible no good moon.  Probably close to the Vanquish
When: Today!

[By and large, Katie hates this moon.   It made her sick when she first got here and she's largely shunned it ever since.  Today marks the first day she's voluntarily gone out in it.  Why? 

Because she has a lightsaber.  And she wants to practice with it and swing it around and generally have fun with it and maybe cut down a few sickly dead branches.  And while she could do this in the cargo bay of the Vanquish easy enough, out here she has to wear a mask.

A mask and a lightsaber is just too much to pass up, oh my god.  She's found a black one, which in fact looks nothing like anything you might find in Star Wars, which is probably for the best all round, really.  But it's black, and it's the best she can do, and if you head into the gloom of the smog this fine day you might find a small child waving a pale white lightsaber around that makes all the appropriate lightsaber sounds and doing her best to make breathing sounds like Darth Vader because black mask, and to be honest if she's not quoting some part of some lightsaber battle when you wander past it'll be kind of surprising.

...unless you are of course recognisable as a Jedi and thus she'll choke on her breath pretty quickly and turn the saber off and look as innocent as she possibly can.

On the bright side, it's clear to anyone with any powers of observation she actually knows how to use a sword and is taking care not to cause any accidental damage with it.  So... bonus?  It's just a small child having fun.  Vmm vmm.]

Comments

[flickerflash]

[Oh she likes that one. She thinks she knows it, but after the first two lines it changes.]

Magpies are everywhere it seems. You're terrible at poetry.

[bb_wolf]

Magpies are everywhere. And you're terrible at it too.

[He relaxes against the wall, pulling out a cigarette and lighting up.]

[flickerflash]

[She wedges her toe under the stone and then kicks it up, catching it deftly in her fingers, before sitting down in the middle of her hopscotch grid.]

Who's the vampire you want me to meet?

[bb_wolf]

[He takes a slow drag and blows it out away from her.]

His name is Sascha. He's not a vampire like stories say. He's more like... a nocturnal hyper predator by biology and a cuddly idiot puppy by nature.

[flickerflash]

Is he still a walking corpse that likes to drink blood?

[bb_wolf]

No. He's...

[He had no idea. He had minimal signs of life, but he didn't smell like corpse. He drank blood, but seemed to prefer eating meat.]

He's not a corpse. He doesn't smell like corpse or vampire. He can drink blood, but he also eats meat. His teeth are designed more like mine than a traditional vampire.

[flickerflash]

[...oh. She's curious despite herself. That doesn't sound like the vampires she's met; either the traditional weird movie kind that Mihawk turned into or the weirdo who thought her aura was pretty back in Bath.

...not a corpse means maybe he won't be so uncomfortable to be around. But.]

I drank from a vampire once. He didn't want me to. I think I frightened him a lot.

[bb_wolf]

[He can take a guess at what happened to her from those statements.]

He won't bite you, because I would break his face if he tried. He'd just like to meet a cat. You don't even have to let him touch you, I think he'd just like to watch a kitten play and not running away from him.

[Sascha was entirely too excited about the idea of just watching the foxes play. Watching a kitten would make him more than happy.]

[flickerflash]

[I am still extremely unsure. But Katie at least gives it thought, chewing on her lip. She could ask him to swear that, but she doesn't think it's necessary. She believes him.

...but vampire. Her kitten form is far more vulnerable. On the other hand, the idea of vampires nomming on small and cute balls of fluff doesn't seem quite right--]

Perhaps he should meet a little girl first.

[bb_wolf]

Before said little girl lets a vampire anywhere near her kitten? That makes sense.

[That she'll consider it at all if a pretty big step to him.]

[flickerflash]

Will you be mad if he frightens me and I drop him in a lake?

[bb_wolf]

[He laughs.]

No. Fuck, sometimes I feel like dropping him in a lake myself.

[flickerflash]

[She giggles at that, playing with the stone in her hands.]

I'm only allowed to meet one weird person a week. If he's willing to wait, I suppose I can book him in.

[She's low on glamour thanks to fucking with Max. No way no how is she meeting a vampire without being at the very top of her fae game. So to speak.]

[bb_wolf]

[He made her giggle, he must be forgiven more or less.]

He has no idea yet. If you decide you're okay meeting him, just let me know on the day and I'll drag him over to meet on the Iskaulit?

[flickerflash]

[He was forgiven from the moment he said he was sorry tbh]

Okay!

[bb_wolf]

[He pushes himself up off the floor.]

Right, I'm off in that case. Going to find someone to terrorise and menace.

[Or, you know, laze in the garden as a giant wolf.]

[flickerflash]

Have fun menacing.

[She waves goodbye cheerfully. And will wait until he's gone before returning to her hopscotch game.]