Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)
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				Title: <strong>Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>30-01-2010, 19:53:53</strong>
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				((OOC thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=58941.msg2684346#msg2684346)))<br><br>Dela took a whiff at the doorknob, he tail whipping ever-so-menacingly behind her. She glanced back at the delivery man who was blocking the path back to the car with his massive body. It wasn't far-fetched that at some point she - and also Sita - would get a place and an owner, but did this brute man have to deliver them like a parcel? Or could they at least have <em>told</em> her someone would grab her and Sita's few things, stuff them in two bags and chase them into a van? The doorknob smelled like cold metal, and the door behind it like paint - so much, that the wood was barely sniffable beneath it. She reached out and rubbed a nail delicately over the paint. 'A little more... a little more..... a little mooooore...'&nbsp; - and there it was - the warming, comforting scent of wood! Awesome. Her tail calmed a little - only the tip now twitched in casual excitement. She pushed her nose forward into the scratched crack and blinked her eyes close, then opened them again. Maybe, just maybe she could live here. "Sita! It's wood!" she informed her friend, as if those were the greatest news of the century. Meanwhile, the delivery man checked off the delivery address and the catgirl description off from his clipboard. <br><br><em>Delivery A: Nina, black-haired, small.<br>Delivery B: Keraya: black-haired, small, white tip on her tail</em><br><br>... catladies all looked the same to him, anyway. And they were a nuisance to deliver. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>03-02-2010, 17:25:11</strong>
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				Sita watched her companion with sleep-heavy golden eyes.&nbsp; She had managed to fall asleep during the relatively short car ride to their new owner with her head tilted onto Dela's shoulder (which left a lovely red print on Sita's cheek).<br><br><em>"Sita! It's wood!"</em><br><br>"Well, of <em>course</em> it's wood... what did you expect?"<br>She managed to say around a wide, sleepy-tear inducing yawn.&nbsp; The grey-eared cat turned her head enough to catch the delivery man in profile with his clipboard, the clipboard almost looked like a playing card in the hulking man's hands as he silently glowered at Dela's delicate nail marks that had scraped away enough paint to free the wood beneath it.<br>"I don't think you should do that, Dela..."<br>Sita added quietly, glancing up to the great door and the massive house attached to it.<br><br>"Shouldn't we ring the doorbell or somethin'?"<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Lithos</strong> on <strong>03-02-2010, 23:02:04</strong>
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				Kevin shook his head in attempt to shake his anxiousness away as he filed through the receipts that had arrived from client companies earlier in the week. It was Friday and he had gone through most of the sorting already, and would be more or less ready to start his weekend soon. This weekend would be different though – it was the delivery day. The fact had not left him alone for a second ever since he woke up. It would be first time when someone except him would be actually living in this house. He had lost the count of how many times he had stood up from his office chair and turned around to look down to the street at front of his house from the window of his makeshift office, nestled in corner of his living room.&nbsp; <br><br>He thought that he had prepared well for the new arrivals but now that it really came down to it, he did realize that he did not really have much idea of what would change with the new arrivals. These feline like creatures were mystery to him. He had seen them in television at times, sometimes in magazines. They seemed to come in just as much variety as humans, even if they were not exactly treated as such. Some that he had seen were dressed like pretty dolls, playing with and taking care of rich peoples children, some were neglected and not treated as much more than pests. And as rumors went, if one knew the right places and had enough money, there were people who were offering them for quite different services. He had no idea what to think about them himself, he could not really say that he would have ever met one before. <br><br>“I really should have gone out more” he muttered to himself in quiet voice, sighing as he finished up the paperwork and stood up, walking around the house once more to check the accommondations that he had set for his future companions. He had arranged most of the things to his guest bedroom that was across the hallway from his at upper floor. He had no idea how the girls preferred to sleep so he had bought one mattress for each, and set them a bit apart to the floor along with the beddings. He had only seen pictures of the two girls with some basic info like their names. He had no idea what they liked even. Then again he was not exactly poor, he could find out and maybe take them shopping later. For now both beds had dark blue sheets dotted with little stars, along with some comfy pillows. <br><br>He had also read that the girls were playful, but again he had no idea what they liked to play with really, so the assortment of things what they could twiddle with was not too huge yet. He had set some puzzles, blocks and other things he associated with such things to the room, he could get something else once he could actually find out what the girls liked. He had tried his best to get rid of his habit of leaving his work documents laying all around the house on the few days of waiting that he had, and had collected all the file cabinets and such work related things to work corner that he had set for himself in the living room. <br><br>Other than these preparations, there was not terribly much that he had been able to do yet. He had gotten a lot more groceries than usually, as he would have two more mouths to feed. It seemed to him that they could eat same food as humans so he hoped that it was enough. His furniture and decorations were elegant and tastefully sparse, there should not be much else to do in preparation. It was not like there was war coming, just two cat people that he had never really met – how bad could it possibly be?<br><br>After having patrolled through the house once more, Kevin returned to his office corner, taking another look at the street from the window like he had done since the morning. This time he was able to see a dark blue van approaching though, and it did stop at front of his gate. He could see large, well built man exiting the car and opening the back compartment, ushering two girls out of the car. He did recognize them from the short profiles the staff at the stray home had delivered to him. That is when he realized that he had not prepared his own looks at all yet, he was still in his comfy indoors sandals, his white shirt had upper buttons open and he was wearing it hanging on top of his black slacks instead of having it neatly tucked. <br><br>He considered running to bathroom to make himself more presentable but decided not to. His hair was somewhat decent at least, usually he just combed his short black hair back, and with the years it seemed to stay there without too much help. He was going to live with the girls, there should be nothing wrong in them seeing him in his not-so-official getup. In either case he would not get started with this chapter of his life without taking the first step. With that decided he walked across the living room to the main door, hesitating for a while as he figured whether to wait for a knock or not. He decided that it was better to just get rid of his anxiousness as soon as possible, and opened the door, smiling some as he took a look at the girls and the driver outside. <br><br>He had not realized how tiny the girls were – this was definitely one difference compared to humans. Neither of the girls seemed to pass his chest, and combined with their ears, appearance of the duo was impeccably cute. One of them seemed quite sleepy, had probably slept most of the way here he figured. The other one looked curious and lively though. He tilted his head a bit, his look shifting between the girls once more before he smiled and nodded greeting at the heavy-set driver standing behind them.<br><br>“Good afternoon, Kevin Hanlon at your service. I see that you have something for me?" He smiled some as he shifted his look back at the girls <br><br>”And good afternoon to two of you as well, I see that at least one of you slept well."
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>04-02-2010, 10:41:22</strong>
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				"But- it smelled like paint and not like woo-" Dela's eyes blinked wide as the door - to which her nose was still almost-attached - suddenly opened and a tall human stood before her, his tummy - as she had bent down to sniff the door - inches from her nose.<br><br>"EEP!" she exclaimed, jumped back half a meter and found her hair standing on end. The delivery-thug nonchalantly ignored her as her ears fell flat to her head and a hiss lay at the tip of her tongue. On further thought, Kevin-person was much less scary than thug-man, but still scary. Given that they were trapped between them now, Sudela measured her chances of escape - left over the hedge into the bushes, or between thug-man's legs? But whom was she kidding? Sleepyhead would never make it in time and she could not leave her here! For a lack of better options, she stood there, frozen, and stared at Kevin Hanlon, squeezing herself against Sita to be as far away from the delivery-thug as she could.<br><br>"Kevin Hanlon?" the deliver-thug replied and lifted a paper or two on his board. "Yes, I am bringing these two cat-girls for you. Uh... Nina" he helplessly pointed at Sita, "and Keraya."<br><br>"My name is Suadela!" Dela hissed at the delivery man. "You took Keraya away from me yesterday and stuck her into your stinky van!" 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>06-02-2010, 02:12:56</strong>
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				Sita stood un-phased by the black feline’s spazzy reactions, ears perking forward when the door swung open and she came face to upper-belly with the house’s resident and owner.&nbsp; She had to practically drop her head all the way back onto her shoulders to look up at his face but she didn’t feel particularly alarmed or scared as Dela was – but then again very few things actually phased Sita, especially when she had just woken up.<br>She blinked the sleep from her eyes while looking up at Kevin, perhaps in awe at his sheer size in comparison to her and Dela diminutive heights.&nbsp; He definitely did not look like a bad person, in fact his smile looked rather kind and as she steadily woke up some more she gave him a small, shy smile back.<br><br><em> "My name is Suadela!" Dela hissed at the delivery man. "You took Keraya away from me yesterday and stuck her into your stinky van!"</em><br><br>Her ear pricked backwards towards the black feline pressed close to her back.&nbsp; “And m’not Nina… Nina is black and has longer fur on her tail.”&nbsp; She announced more to Kevin than the delivery man, knowing the other wasn’t to care all that much.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Lithos</strong> on <strong>09-02-2010, 01:16:23</strong>
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				Kevin scratched his head as he followed the bickering between the girls and the delivery man, his eyes following each as they talked back and forth. It seemed that the cat girl fostering home could have used some better bookkeeping and company culture as well. Nevertheless, at least they had delivered him something, and they seemed to be two just as he had been specified. He decided to go with the names the girls gave themselves, it would be quite strange if the delivery man knew their names better than the girls themselves did after all.<br><br>“So Suadela?” he said eying the more active and scared looking girl with a smile, as he turned to look at the sleepy girl <br><br>“And Sita? I am Kevin, welcome to your new home". He signed the delivery papers as he greeted the girls, nodding at the delivery man as he passed him the delivery list – corrected with right names this time. He turned back to the girls as the delivery man left, and opened the front door to allow them to have a peek inside.<br><br>He hunched down a bit so that he was closer to the two girls height, and looked around, curious to see how the world and his house looked from their point of view. Things definitely looked a bit bigger and to them possibly more scary from down here. <br><br>“Do not hesitate to go indoors, so you can see your future room and get a little tour around the house, it is your home too after all now.”<br><br>He told to the girls, this time from their own eye height, smiling some as he tilted his head. The girls looked different from this angle too, looking from above he could have sworn that they were two kids, but both had actually expressive and developed facial features and eyes. They just seemed to be very, very short. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>15-02-2010, 21:11:49</strong>
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				"I'm afraid, sir, it's not that simple," said the delivery man.<br><br>Suadela took a careful sniff in Kevin's general direction, always crouching a little behind Sita. One ear was taking careful notice of the two men's conversation, the other was alert for suspicious sounds. Kevin smelled... home-like. Yes - that described it well: There was this slightly settled, cuddly, warm something about him beyond the faint wave of the man's shampoo and the washing powder for his clothes. The least one could say was that he neither smelled no looked dangerous - and he did have a nice, low, warm voice... and he spoke nicely, too. She took a careful peek at him - at the combed hair with the stray strands and the comfortable clothes. <br><br>She didn't forget that he had a wooden door. People with wooden doors were good people.<br><br>"You were assigned to host Nina and Keraya - if these two are not Nina and Keraya, I'll have to take them back and correct the mistake," said the delivery man now.<br><br><em>What - take them back?!</em> Dela's tail lashed out straight and poofed up in replacement for the hiss she did not utter. <em>Back with the thug? I'd rather get run over by a car!</em> Pulling her ears flat to her head, she made a decision, jumped straight past Sita, squeezed in between the door frame and Kevin's legs and crashed into something hard and breakable. She ignored the ear-clattering shatter and the slight pain in her shoulder where something had cut through and pushed herself away from the shards, darting further into the house. Her hands found a handle, the door sprung open and she quickly found her orientation: Door, wardrobe, window, bed! It was all dim lit, but her eyes had quickly adjusted. There was yet another whiff of wood, which was easing her a little. Wood was good. She loved the scent of wood. A man with wood in the bedroom was good.<br><br>She quickly squeezed under the bed and pushed on until she could feel the cool wall before her. Pressing her back against it, she curled up as much as she could, and tilted her head down, so that only the black ears and her hair were visible. Then she carefully draped her black tail over her bright legs, camouflaging in the darkness under the bed as much as she could. Last but not least she hacked her claws into the carpet, making sure they sat tight so it wouldn't be an easy task to pull her out from under the bed, should they ever find her. And she would fight. Thug-man would bleed, if he tried to get her out of here. <br><br>Dela suppressed a growl and kept herself quiet. With some luck, they'd never even find her.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>20-02-2010, 16:39:03</strong>
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				This man – no, Kevin, - Kevin gave off a warm and friendly presence which Sita strongly approved of.&nbsp; He was very open and kind to them… even his clothing spoke of friendliness.&nbsp; He wasn’t overly dressed and stuffy looking, he looked relaxed and at ease… very nice.<br><em> You were assigned to host Nina and Keraya - if these two are not Nina and Keraya, I'll have to take them back and correct the mistake.”</em><br>What? Go back? Now that wasn’t fair… those round, golden eyes seemed to become more alert at the threat of having to return to the center.<br><br>“But I don’t want to go back… don’t we have a say in this?” However, before she could interject anymore there was a blur of black fur that darted past her, between the human’s legs and disappeared into the depths of the house.&nbsp; Sita’s ears pricked up, now fully alert (well.. for Sita, who still looked a bit groggy), “’Dela! Wait for me!” She called after the magicked cat and used the same path she took into the welcoming home – right between the human’s legs.&nbsp; She could hear the near-silent foot-falls of her friend retreating into the depths of the home and she followed the sound, as well as the familiar scent of her friend, winding her way into the home.<br>“’Dela? Where are you? Are you here?” She whispered, poking her head into a bedroom.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Lithos</strong> on <strong>25-02-2010, 15:25:35</strong>
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				“I am afraid that you need to correct your mistake in much higher level than on delivery if you want to get this sorted” Kevin told to the man, his voice growing much more annoyed as he heard his claim and the girls darted indoors from his doorway. He had not acquired the girls to be swamped by bureaucracy from the very beginning. There was bound to be some way to handle this otherwise. Besides, it would be who knows how difficult to get the girls to leave anyway now that they had already hurried indoors. Then again there were always alternatives, and many ways to deal with something like this. <br><br>“You do realize that this is quite a big mix-up you have here, and it affects many more people than just us even now. What do you think that the owner of the girls you delivered earlier would think if you went to get them back?” He tilted his head and looked at the delivery man with a slight smile. If he would start to actually correct the issue now, she would be in a lot more trouble for his mistake than he was right now. And if he would stay quiet, the whole event might go unnoticed, it seemed that the person he had delivered the original girls to had decided to remain quiet. If he did not, things might certainly get tricky. With some nice incentive added to the mix, it should be quite easy to get the delivery man to give up his pursuit. <br><br>“Then, there of course is the small fact about difficulties and charges involved in searching someones apartment, and the damage that might be caused while acquiring what you seek. And the compensations for sloppily handled service. I think that it might be much more beneficial for you and your organization to let things be as they are, don't you think? A name is but some ink on the paper after all.” He looked at the man quite seriously now, he sure as hell was not going to let someone mess his house upside down while correcting a mistake they should not have done to begin with. Besides, the girls that he received had looked quite cute and lively, he had not real desire to change them even if he could. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>26-02-2010, 23:07:13</strong>
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				The delivery man - obviously not the brightest crayon in the box, anyway - looked at Kevin thoughtfully. "Hmm..." he said. The man had a point - the delivery man's boss would let all hell loose for the mess-up, not to mention the place where they usually picked up the cat. The leading lady could be quite a nuisance and wasn't very forgiving. Also, so far everything had gone by smoothly... the previous person hadn't even twitched and neither had the cats. With some luck, nobody would even notice and nobody would blame him, either.<br><br>"You can rename your cats to whatever you want, sir," he said eventually and handed Kevin the board to sign his name for the received delivery. Nobody would ever find out - it was the best way to go. He left Sita's and Suadela's bags carelessly in the driveway, went back to his van and drove off. The rest of the afternoon, he'd be delivering parcels, vegetables and some sealed documents&nbsp; - and he preferred that over living freight.<br><br>---<br><br>Suadela lay still pressed to the wall in the bedroom, crouched to the darkest corner under the bed. She had just tucked herself in right, so as to be the smallest form she could possibly manage, when Sita's voice reached her alert ears. "I am here..." she whispered after a small second of hesitation. "There's enough room for two, but hurry!" she urged her friend. Humans were exceptionally slow with everything, especially chasing cat-girls, but there was no need to stretch the risk of being discovered by thug-man any time soon. "Come on! And be <em>quiet</em>!" Dela urged. She laid her own head against the bed's wooden leg, her nose breathing in the warm wooden scent. <br><br>Secretly, she was very happy that Sita had also managed to run here and they could hide away together. At least then she didn't have to worry about her companion. They'd feel secure down here... and warm and safe together. And they were both dark enough to not be so easily spotted - or at least Suadela thought as much, wasting no thoughts on electrical and battery-driven light sources or the fact that furniture wasn't bolted into the floor and therefore moveable.&nbsp; 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Two Cat Girls Looking for Company II (Lithos, Muninn, Acinonyx)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>05-03-2010, 13:25:54</strong>
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				“But why are you hiding <em>here</em>?” Sita inquired in an exaggerated whisper, wedging her face beneath the bed, peering into the dark where she could just make out the ‘Dela-shaped shade.&nbsp; “This is the human’s – Kevin’s – home.&nbsp; Don’t you think he’ll find you – us?” She nestled her head and shoulders into the stuffy darkness, leaving her hind-end sticking up and her tail swaying like a silver banner.<br><br>“Why don’t we try to get to know him? It doesn’t seem like he wants to send us back… I think.&nbsp; And if not why don't we try to find the back door?"&nbsp; Although she spoke the words the thought of fleeing and becoming a "stray" sent chills down her spine... that was honestly the last thing she wanted, even the place they came from was much better than the unknown possibilities of becoming a stray.&nbsp; There were so many horror stories of what happens to those stray feline people who are caught by the wrong people....<br><br>Of course, the laws of the world know that the more you try to whisper and remain unobtrusive the more noticeable you become so it would be only a matter of a few short minutes until Kevin would find them.<br>
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