<em> "Uhm... you should be due to come to your new home in a couple days. Hasn't Jean already told you that?"</em><br/>From her perch next to Maleena Skuld tipped her head thoughtfully.  “…. Probably.”  She wasn’t going to lie and although some might make it a point to be flustered and embarrassed at this point she took her ignorance of this knowledge with grace. “I probably wasn’t paying attention, though.”<br/>Skuld’s tapered ears pricked forward while Akira dug into his rucksack, watching him closely while he pulled out the magazines and spiral albums and partially displayed them, smoothly speaking and explaining as he went.<br/><br/><em> "I know that this is not the same as being there but if you are interested these are some pictures of the house, the garden and your rooms.. you may pick the room you like most."</em><br/>This young master was certainly granting the two girls a lot of freedom and he was also certainly courteous towards them – all of which she appreciated.  Although Skuld will most likely leave all the decorating up to the more capable Maleena, she just didn’t have the head nor patience for picking out what fabric went well with which and what color scheme would brighten a room or simply implode it. Be that as it may, she<em>was</em>curious about their future home, the rooms, the aforementioned garden.. and, oh goodness, he was holding some sort of sampler containing a cornucopia of fabrics all in different colors, shapes and patterns.  Skuld’s vestigial tail twitched somewhere at the base of her spine with interest and she had to practice complete restraint from leaping over to snatch the sampler and squirrel it away somewhere.  This was thanks for Maleena’s presence, the calico knew that the other girl would want a thorough look before her friend got her itching paws on it, otherwise Skuld would have been long gone with it by now!!  Why the fabric? Well, besides the aesthetic interest, very few people (cat or otherwise) understood or appreciated the myriad of textures and flavors fabric held.  Or the satisfying tension and rip when held between your front teeth or under sharpened claws… needless to say, it was something of great curiosity and interest.<br/><br/>Her attention on the folder was so great that she nearly missed Maleena leaving her side to perch on the armchair’s arm to purchase a better view of the offered photos and fabrics.  She blinked, hey! She wanted to see, too! Belatedly she scrambled up and crawled neatly onto the back of Akira's chair, leaning between Maleena’s and Akira’s heads to look down at the photos.<br/><br/>“Ooohh…” Sandy-haired Skuld added appreciatively, especially at the photos of the garden.  “Do you have a birdbath?  Or maybe some bird feeders?” She asked excitedly, some part of her mind remembering how Jean would not bend to Skuld’s pleas and whining for either in the ground’s garden because Jean was a big meany head sometimes (but actually this decision was made mostly for the safety of the local wildlife as cat people kittens and adolescents were known to… indulge in those more primal instincts that included bird snacks).<br/><br/>She didn’t care too much about the room – that was also something Maleena would figure out quite happily on her own. Skuld would later personally hand-pick a high hiding spot to make her own retreat for noonday naps.  That also brought up the issue on she and Maleena sharing a room….<br/>Now what would the human (Akira was it? Or Akita? Akida?  Oh, well, she had plenty of time to commit it to memory… right?) think about that?  Skuld and Maleena were certainly no strangers to each other’s body and they frequently enjoyed refreshing their memories on the matter.  Would this cause a problem – or would it be politely ignored as long as they were… discreet?<br/>