Koko bounded along after the mysterious shiny dot, not knowing how far she'd traveled... And then it vanished. She stopped abruptly, looking around.<br/><br/>"Shiny dot? Where didst thou go?" She whined, a counterpoint to the delightful Elizabethan English she'd just spoke. Koko walked on for a few more minutes, decidedly dejected and daydreaming about what delightfully delectable fish she might have been able to catch with that distracting, dazzling lure.<br/><br/>"Today's episode of Koko and the Shiny Dot is brought to you by the letter D... And also the number four. Because D is the fourth letter of the alphabet... Four is, ironically, also the number of clients I lost at my lame tour-guide job," Koko mumbled. A glistening out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. A large lake was nearby, activating Koko's natural predatory instincts.<br/><br/>She toddled up to the water's edge and sniffed slightly, "There be FISH in that there lake. Mewants!" Without another word, the little feline broke out her fishing gear and set to fishing out her fishy supper. Chasing that dot was exhausting, you know?<br/><br/>"I think I'll catch... Four fish, today. Because four is a theme, apparently, and it just seems right."<br/><br/>Less than an hour later (for<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">the pond was quite bountiful where fish was concerned</span>Koko was a master angler), four fish were swimming around her goldfish frying pan, almost ready to be nommed upon. With a contented sigh, she sat down to dinner... It was gone in less than a quarter of the time it had taken to catch and prepare. With a tiny burp that only Koko could seem to manage, she closed her eyes and reflected on the-- Oh. She's asleep.<br/><br/>Koko knew not how long she had been slumbering, when a slight rumbling sound caught her attention via her sharp ears. Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she glanced in the direction she figured the sound to be coming from.<br/><br/>"Nyan? A dust cloud? That's funny," she giggled, "It looks just like the one I kicked up when I was chasing that dot... At least I think it does. I couldn't see it, 'cause, you know... It was kinda behind me." She watched a few more moments before something sparkly caught her eye, "Is that... DOT!" She gasped, quickly and quietly packing away her equipment. Slowly, she stalked up to it, pupils widening as she zeroed in on her shiny target. She wiggled her butt, tail swishing, preparing to pounce.<br/><br/>Koko launched off the ground, perfect trajectory towards her mark, but...<br/><br/>"Owies! It did it again!" She whined, tearing up a little at the prospect of being outwitted by a sparkly fishing lure twice in one day. Or perhaps it was the pain of colliding headfirst with another being. A being with hair as bubblegum pink as her own. Koko looked the stranger over and emitted a curious, "Nyan?"