by Alpha* » Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:48 am
(No problem! Join away! And perhaps he's just a softie?)
He is struggling to stay still - all those learned lessons swirling in his head - to fight or flee, that touch means hurting. "I have a hard time with touch, thats all. It's nothing to do with YOU." Is murmured, as if it matters. Of course she would think it's about her. Other cats act as if she - like you- is a monster. But you know differently, don't you Fell? Then she is asking a question, "Rook lived in a human nest, called a barn. It's hard to not know humans when they would come." He hesitates, "two-legs, I mean."
Knowledge of many things is in his head, some gathered on his own, some taught, more borrowed. "I was born a clan cat, but, I wasn't wanted back then." The only of seven to live. Born to a Clan of warm colored pelts, and you aren't. Born with six sisters; born and they thought you were a miracle, until they died. Then you became a curse and you were left behind. How have you changed?
He pushes the thoughts away, stubborn in his refusal to acknowledge them. He isn't the same as he once was, and all of that wasn't his fault. Those ever moving ears had caught the quiet mutterings of the medicine cat, though he hadn't understood the context of the words. But then they are closer and he flicks his ears together as a greeting with his words, "SeaSong."
Another warm smile finds his muzzle, still, it is brief. "I'm not much of a hunter but I thought I'd try. " Is responded to the she-cat in his distant-thunder tones. "Never much liked them though. "