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cats: 019 | 009 ♀ | 010 ♂ | next exodus: now | mod: [kat]
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〘 consumption 〙➳ one hare and one mouse
xxxx↳ (4 servings)
〘 hunting 〙➳ gretchen, fawkes, janus, regulus
〘 patroling 〙➳ reign, freckle
〘 herb searching 〙➳ sinner
〘 treatments 〙➳ angus rests
〘 birthings 〙➳ none
〘 training 〙➳ mentors train stażyści
〘 additions 〙➳ freckle, regulus, and janus join!
〘 matings 〙➳ none
〘 rankings 〙➳ none
〘 raiding 〙➳ none
〘 other 〙➳ the rada will be chosen soon
xxxx↳ :D
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〘 hunting 〙➳ gretchen, fawkes, janus, regulus
〘 patroling 〙➳ reign, freckle
〘 herb searching 〙➳ sinner
〘 treatments 〙➳ angus rests
〘 birthings 〙➳ none
〘 training 〙➳ mentors train stażyści
〘 additions 〙➳ freckle, regulus, and janus join!
〘 matings 〙➳ none
〘 rankings 〙➳ none
〘 raiding 〙➳ none
〘 other 〙➳ the rada will be chosen soon
xxxx↳ :D
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Serpenti formerly of the Temple of Hollows prowled across the terrain. A dreary forest caught his eye and he ambled into it. It had a sense of unease and darkness to it and he wanted to explore. The deeper he roamed, the greater the sense of restlessness grew inside of him. His paws moved forward confidently like they knew where to go and he let them take him to their unknown destination. After leaping over a couple of fallen trees, he saw a hunk of metal laying innocently on a flat rock in plain sight. If the draw to the metal wasn’t unbearably strong, Serpenti would have taken a second to think about his actions and have come to the conclusion that touching such an unknown, strange object wouldn’t be the best idea. But the sparkling silver danced before his eyes and before he knew what was happening, he touched it with his nose and the world went black.
•••
Sinner, once so concerned about keeping Etheria safe and hidden away, was now a filthy hypocrite in her eyes. “You need to let her stretch her legs,” Sinner urged the new mother. “A bit of sunlight will do you both some good.”
Etheria hissed keeping Arcadia, her sole surviving kit wrapped closely around her body. “She’s safe here.”
“She’ll be safe in the clearing,” Sinner assured which the other two mothers nodding in agreement. “Even Angus is resting in the shade and he is riddled with beestings.” This seemed to turn her further off from the idea. Sinner felt Etheria’s nerves spiked as the name of her kit’s father was mentioned. “There’s plenty of room,” He urged, “plus everyone will want to know what you’ve decided to name her.”
“I named all of them,” Etheria snapped.
“Of course you did,” Lani licked the top of her head and gently untangled Arcadia from Etheria’s tail, “She can sit in the shade and watch the others rough-house. I’m sure Alta will be excited to show off while wrestling her brothers to the ground.” Reluctantly, Etheria picked Arcadia up and exited the nursery on wobbly legs. Sinner was quick to steady her and help her to a nice sandy spot. A soft tinkling sound alerted Etheria of an approaching cat; she instinctively flicked her tail over Arcadia.
“Oh, is this the newest little addition?” Janus, one of the newcomers, bent down to look at the kit. She was a chimera and claimed her twin brother had found the Spirits of Nature and had taken up lodgings there. It turned out the bell the kits were recently playing with was hers and reattached it to her collar where it originally belonged. Every now and then she let the kits knock the bell around though, she had noticed how crestfallen their faces were when she took their plaything away. “How are you doing little miss?” She cooed.
“She’s deaf,” Etheria pulled her kit in closer even though Arcadia was clearly trying to squirm out of her grip and explore, “She can’t hear you.”
“Oh,” Janus sat back glancing at Lani and Sinner, “She’s beautiful.” Her confidence had worn off and scurried off to pick something off of the prey pile. She settled down next to Freckle, the other new member, and leaned in to probably tell him how hostile the lider currently was feeling.
Now Angus cautiously approached the tense group wincing as he walked and aggravated his beestings. Sinner sensed Etheria’s unease as the tom sat in front of her and wanted to slash at his whiskers. Sinner tried to quickly analyze his own feelings towards the lider; he had quickly taken the role of protective father even though he was only merely three months older than her. “It’s good to see you both out in the fresh air,” Angus quietly said. “Can we talk alone? Or not without them?” He pointedly nodded at Lani and Sinner.
Sinner opened his mouth to say “anything said to her can be said to me as well” but Etheria had given a sharp nod and the two were required to walk away.
“She can fend for herself,” Lani quietly reminded him.
“I know,” Sinner grumbled, “but she doesn’t put herself first.”
“Maybe not, but now she’ll put Arcadia’s well-being first and right now that will help her as well.” Lani flicked her tail reassuringly. “Motherhood changes cats.”
“Hopefully for the better.” Sinner glared across the clearing at the conversing cats. He could tell both of them felt unease. How he wished for better hearing instead of empathy.
•••
“I am really glad to see you both out of the nursery.” Angus spoke softly. “I understand that you are…not as interested in me as I was you, but please understand I too am grieving for the loss of our other two kits.”
“Canaan and Elysium.” Etheria interrupted. “Those are their names.”
“You can’t be upset when you’ve never told me,” Angus seemed hurt, “We don’t have to be mates but Arcadia is my kit and I deserve to be a father figure to her.”
Etheria stiffly nodded. “You can see her, yes.”
Angus’ head drooped. “Thank you.” An uncomfortable silence hovered over them. “So now what? What happens in the future?”
“I don’t know,” Etheria didn’t meet his eyes, “but I think some new rules should be set in place. No cat should have to go through anything like this again.”
“What do you have in mind?” Angus asked.
“Something that should be discussed with all the magicy,” Etheria said, “Oh, I almost forgot. Did Fawkes pass his magik assessment?”
“With honors,” Angus replied. The tom had snuck up on a hare and set a controlled fire on command. It was good enough for the distracted mentor. Etheria nodded, and Angus knew that nod dismissed him. He was no longer her mate though he wondered if she ever considered him to be her lover. Perhaps in a different timeline where the Facility was just a nightmare and cats weren’t kept in labs, they might have been a solid couple.
•••
The black and white bicolor with green snake scales regained consciousness in a cold, hard room. If he could have seen his own ear, he was branded with a serial number, his only identity in the Facility: 57173. Most of his memories of his murderous endeavors were walled behind a manmade blockage, leaving himself an empty vessel. He trembled, fur pressing against the metal bars keeping him contained. When a door opened and flooded the room with light, he could tell that he wasn’t the only one entrapped. “Wakey, wakey!” A gruff voice called with very forced enthusiasm. A hand gripped the bars of his cage and shook it making it clang loudly. “You’re up first, newbie.” There was a slight pause while the Scientist looked closer at his chart. “Interesting,” The Scientist muttered, “A repeated customer.”
•••
Etheria watched Arcadia dash after a spiraling leaf in the wind. Her kit was making little squeaks and squeals while jumping in the air, completely unaware that any sound existed in the world at all. A sorrowful feeling swooped upon her; this was her doing. She agreed to create a family with Angus…no, for Angus, and her rash decision caused the death of two innocent kits. And no matter how fast Arcadia ran around, her twisted back paw left her stumbling and scrambling. This is my fault, this is my fault, this is my…her thoughts were interrupted by Arcadia stopping her playing and wobbling over to her. Etheria stared as her soft little paw touched hers. It was almost as if she was concerned for her mother’s mental wellbeing. Whatever it was, it calmed Etheria down. She bent down to lick her daughter. I’ll love you forever, she promised in her mind. Arcadia mewed…almost in response.
•••
I’m not just a number, 57173 repeated to himself, I’m not just a number. But that was ironic as the only thing he thought of himself was his number. But there was a more pressing issue at hand, he needed out of this hellhole. He had noticed that he was one of the physically fit of the experiments around him. He must have been caught recently, though soon this wouldn’t matter as he could feel his muscles weaken every minute he was alive. Soon he wouldn’t have a chance of escaping.
The next feeding session, his claws ripped at the flesh that shoved the food dish in. He suddenly felt a twinge in the back of his mind; it felt as if he wasn’t a stranger to attacking but he didn’t mind that now. He left bloody pawprints as he sprinted down the long dreary hallways of the Facility with various Scientists pointed and shouted. He arrived at a large looming door and everything inside of him screamed that this was his exit, his exodus. Claws or fangs didn’t budge the metal door, but now his claws were torn, and a couple of his teeth were cracked.
“You must be this tall to ride,” A cynical voice came from above. A Scientist had snuck up behind him when he was wailing on the door. He looked up at the Scientist pleading with his eyes, blood seeping from his paws and mouth. Was there such a more pitiful sight? Truthfully, yes, there were more bad times than good in this Facility. The Scientist pressed on the handle, however, and the outside taunted the cat. Was this real? Was this a mirage or dream? Before the Scientist could close the door, he burst out and felt grass underneath his paws again. He sprinted away as an almost maniacal laugh echoed throughout the forest. He was free…right?
•••
Fawkes felt hot embers spark on his tail. “Hey,” he whipped around and was nose to nose with Colin, “knock that off.”
“Make me,” Colin easily evaded Fawkes’ claws, “Since you’re a big magik now, you can help me train my elemental powers.”
“I thought Gretchen was meant to help Reign with the fire parts of our training.” Fawkes grumbled.
“Yeah, but I wanna learn from you now,” Colin ducked his head, suddenly embarrassed by his candor. “It’s just…you’re more fun.”
Fawkes sighed. “Alright, but then I have to go on a hunting patrol since I’m a magik and you’re not.”
“Wow, I’m glad your ego didn’t get any bigger,” Colin rolled his eyes and hid a smile. He was glad that Fawkes still wanted to hang out with him even though he wasn’t just a staźysta anymore.
•••
“Etheria! Etheria!” Gretchen came sprinting into camp. The sun had just broken over the trees. It seemed that she was the scout sent ahead to warn everybody since she was unnaturally fast. “Sinner!” She decided that having the healer awake was important as well. “There’s a new cat! It looks like he just escaped! Reign and Freckle found him a little bit ago and they’re helping him back here right now.” Her chest heaved as her breathing started to regulate once more. There was a bustling around camp after the news was announced even though it was barely daylight. The kits, even Arcadia who hadn’t a clue what was going on, were all lined up bouncing on their paws waiting to see this new cat. Sinner had gathered up his small stock of herbs pacing nervously waiting to see what state the cat would arrive in. Etheria and Angus tried to get more information out of Gretchen, but she knew nothing else. “They caught me in passing,” She explained, “I was hunting, you know.”
At last the stranger arrived propped up between Reign and Freckle, head low and fur matted. He also had scales though his were green. Angus startled beside Etheria, but she barely noticed as she watched Sinner swoop in hurriedly. Luckily their healer was a water elemental since he could gently wash the dried blood from the fur before deeming him in “okay shape.” Lani and Geni let the kittens see the cat but stopped them from rushing over.
“What’s your name?” Etheria asked gently. She didn’t expect him to have picked out a name for himself yet though if he had just experienced his exodus and was still in shock. She was correct because he just shook his head.
“I-I think I know him,” Angus stuttered. All eyes turned to him. “I think that’s my brother.”
“What’s his name then?” Nimbus, one of the more daring kits, asked.
“There aren’t any names in the Facility,” Angus frowned, “but our numbers should be consecutive. No matter how many times you are captured, your number remains the same, and he escaped a long time before I ever did. What’s your number, stranger?”
The bicolor shook his head screwing his eyes shut. “I’m not a number.” He whispered.
“None of us are,” Angus said gently. Etheria looked at him comforting this stressed cat. She wanted to remember this moment. Angus wasn’t a villain or even a bad cat; he was just flawed, the same as everybody else, able to make mistakes. She didn’t want the memories of them to be tainted in some kind of rotten light; she just wanted to have his friendship and nothing more. Nothing ever more. She shook her head slightly as she refocused in on the conversation. “But we all are followed by our number. My number is 57172.”
“57173.”
It did appear that Angus and the newcomer were brothers.
•••
Etheria gathered the cats she had selected to accompany her to the first gathering their fellowship attended. Sinner had heard rumors of a night meeting of neighboring cats, and Etheria had talked him into taking her along with a few others. She selected Reign, as she did brilliantly around new cats, Fawkes, as a reward for becoming a full magik, and Colin, to give him something constructive to do. She left Arcadia in the capable hands of Geni and Lani, and Angus stayed back along with Gretchen, Freckle, and Regulus. She was trembling, both from nerves and from excitement. Sinner pressed against her. “Stay back,” He muttered.
Etheria laughed causing most of her nerves to dissipate at least for a little while. “Never.”
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sometimes the short end of the stick is the sharpest / sometimes the only road to take is the darkest / sometimes all you gotta say is “daddy, make it go away” / sometimes the only way out is as a carcass
- lider:
etheria | 36 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ spirit
xx ↳ telepathy
lekarz:
sinner | 39 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ empathy
asystent lekarz:
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the rada:
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magicy, a magik:
freckle | 40 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ heat tolerance
regulus | 38 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ manipulation
angus | 37 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ nature
xx ↳ no power
gretchen | 33 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ speed
reign | 32 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ air
xx ↳ weather sense
janus | 25 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ nightvision
fawkes | 16 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ stealth
stażyści, a stażysta:
colin | 12 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ flexibility
matki:
lani | 32 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ air
xx ↳ wind gusts
geni | 36 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ echolocation
xx ↳ blind
dzieci, a dziecko:
cirrus | 5 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ air
xx ↳ unknown power
alta | 5 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ air
xx ↳ unknown power
nimbus | 5 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ unknown power
void | 3 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ unknown power
warp | 3 | ♂ | ▣
xx ↳ fire
xx ↳ unknown power
loop | 3 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ unknown power
arcadia | 2 | ♀ | ▣
xx ↳ water
xx ↳ unknown
xx ↳ deaf
xx ↳ twisted paw
starsi, a starszy:
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Name | Age | ♀♂ | [url=link]▣[/url]
xx ↳ element
xx ↳ power
prey:
0 | mice | 1 serving
1 | shrews | 1 serving
1 | trout | 2 servings
0 | sparrows | 2 servings
0 | hares | 3 servings
herbs:
0 | borage | produces milk
0 | catmint | greencough
0 | cobweb | bleeding
1 | feverfew | fevers
1 | marigold | infections
1 | poppy seed | pain
0 | ragwort | strength
1 | raspberry leaf | kitting
1 | tansy | coughs
loot:
1 | shiny blue stone | heal one wound with no herbs
1 | blue flower | increase litter size by one
1 | green root | avoid injury and illness for a month
1 | purple-white flower | guarantee survival of at least one kit
training:
reign | colin | 4 | 2 basic, 1 elemental
families:
lani + unknown | cirrus, alta, nimbus
geni + unknown | void, warp, loop, worm
etheria + angus | canaan, arcadia, elysium
unknown + unknown | angus, regulus
the ascended:
worm | weakness after birth |▣
canaan | weakness after birth |▣
elysium | weakness after birth |▣
borders:
north | fellowship name | username
northeast | fellowship name | username
northwest | fellowship name | username
east | fellowship name | username
south | polluted stream | the Facility
southeast | spirits of nature | broken*
southwest | fellowship name | username
west | fellowship name | username
