<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/ba/Dakr_skinned_cat_cutie.png)</div><strong>Mephistophelese</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hAWxiTnobEk5cpsS_uuP7kAnVsK0JpPJZij_W-GiiHM/edit)<br/><br/>Hitomi Abid Al'Ayad was long past the point where she worried she was degrading herself by giving her clients a little eye candy.  Traveling back and forth between Japan, the USA, and Egypt, the irony wasn't lost on Hitomi that--when a girl in a burka and a girl in a bikini and sunglasses met on the street--each thought the other was a victim of a sexist patriarchy.  Hitomi wasn't degraded by either dressing comfortably or by giving the people around her something to look at.  If she went to the trouble to look good, she wanted to be apreciated--and hopefully to be able to make the people she met smile.  There was nothing wrong with that.  (Hitomi knew the fact that she _thought_ these things meant the attitudes still had some effect on her, though!)<br/><br/>An Afro-Asian beauty standing about 5'3" with ebony skin, a straight, silky ponytail, and russet brown eyes, Hitomi had massive breasts and a butt to make Mix-A-Lot sing.  She was okay with these things, too.  She knew that--even with a certain degree of supernatural grace and strength--she would have some back problems without regular exercise.  That was okay, exercise was fun for her.  The traditional busty girl problem she had to put up with chest support.  Even Abida got self-conscious without it.  Her bras were custom ordered and could dig pretty painfully into her shoulders.  She preferred a well-trained corset but like to flash some tummy in the summer.<br/><br/>Today Hitomi had chosen a little shoulder ache in return for the chance to tie up her T-shirt--a snug light blue company T that read "Elysian Forest Cryptid Tours"--beneath her bosom.  Along with that Hitomi had snug jeans and hiking boots.  The cat ears definitely added to her cuteness factor.  The big golden studs in her human ears with hex-cut viridians were cute too.<br/><br/>Hitomi made her way along Yellow Brick Row scouting the tourists.  She stopped at a Starbase for a mocha and nursed on it.  Hitomi was catching on by then that she'd dressed a bit too scantily for the weather.  Cold didn't bother Hitomi.  First time she'd seen snow in America she ran out barefoot to play in it.  That freaked out the dorm mom!  Realizing that she'd dressed a touch too skimpy to blend in she made a show of nursing the coffee.<br/><br/>Hitomi had just spotted a trio of tourists--a young couple with a 7-year-old son.  Her ears twitched to overhear them talking about Mr. Tumnus from Narnia the latest story of fawns dancing in a clearing in the Elysian Forest.<em>Bingo.  I even know where that was supposed to have happened.  </em><br/><br/>Then Hitomi's ears twitched again.  That sounded like a car crash?<br/><br/>The ebony girl started outside as levels of rumbling and thunder crashing compounded each other.  By the time she was on the patio, there was a visible shockwave shattering its way towards her.<br/><br/>Hitomi kicked over a table and pulled a kid behind it.  The table slammed into her back but protected her and the kid from some flying debris.  "Get inside!" she told the kid, then rolled into a corner, hiding under a currently unused outdoor coffee bar.  Hitomi kicked off her shoes, pulled off her top, and then ooched out of her jeans.  Given that she custom ordered her bras anyway, getting underwear that could pass for a swimsuit hadn't been too hard.  As reality continued to unravel, Hitomi stuffed her clothes into her backpack and pulled off her hair band.<br/><br/>It wasn't the cat ears that came off...<br/><br/>It was the human ears!<br/><br/>With the band off, Hitomi's lashing feline tail was no longer hidden.  Her hair showed ochre-gold now.<br/><br/>Mephistopheles the Black Cat spoke a quick spell and vanished in a pop of displaced air.  She reappeared on top of a nearby craft store where an outdoor display of pearler beads was now scattering over several miles of countryside!  She took in the devastation, then noticed a pair of girls who seemed a lot calmer and collected than most.<br/><br/>Erm, wait?  Wasn't that the quantum physics tutor she met last week?<br/><br/>A magic word, a pop, and a crack.  "Hey, Val," she called.  "I think we've met.'<br/><br/>Oh...  And that was Amber Powers.  They'd met back when she attended Arcadia last year.  She'd sent Amber an embarrassing text a few nights ago about a boy she had a crush on...  "And you too," she added, not saying Amber's name right now.  Neither of them had ever seen her with her headband off, so they shouldn't recognize her as Hitomi even after saying that.  "I'm Mephistopheles, call me Mephi.  I can teleport someone to the hospital too, but only if they're on the small side. I may be able to get a big guy once..."<br/><br/>