"That's because Alices are cute and we're nightmares," the Kitten replied, utterly unfazed by Sunny's open dislike.  "There's a yarn shortage," she added, "you need more sleep than you get, and I prefer live mousies to dead squirrels...isn't that right, mousie?"<br/><br/>She waggled her eyebrows at Sunny, only to be interrupted by Alice's groan of annoyance.<br/><br/>"What, are you gonna drag her off and fuck her?"<br/><br/>The Kitten turned to regard Alice for a moment, and for just a moment Sunny knew, knew, that the next words out of the Sex Kitten's mouth were going to be 'wanna watch', but then, miracle of miracles, she shook her head.<br/><br/>"Just checking up on you, baby sis.  I heard about...your friend."  Under the table, she gave Sunny's leg a gentle pat.  "And when I saw you two I figured you were off on some errand, so I thought I'd tag along.  Just in case.  Wherever you're going."<br/><br/>"We don't need your help," the girl said as firmly as she could, her young voice almost cracking with nerves.<br/><br/>"Of course you don't.  I'm just along to amuse myself.  And to make sure that our favorite little sister doesn't get stuck somewhere up to her neck."  The Kitten turned to smile at Sunny.  "Not that you won't do a pretty good job of keeping her safe yourself.  But, uhm...there is one other reason for me to hang around."<br/><br/>"<em>Namely</em>?"<br/><br/>"If I'm with you, the others will back off a bit."