by olivionary » Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:06 am
Who is Chai? There isn't an awful lot of allure to who Chai really is - she isn't clinging to a haunting past nor keeping anything about herself from the cats that now call Ivy Hollow their home. Chai is a kittypet that lives in the cottage with the elderly woman within the territory of the clan - afterall the clan claimed her two leg's land and the surrounding woodland as their home. The cats are perfectly welcome within the elderly woman's garden, in fact she seems to rather enjoy having the additional company on the grounds of her home.
Chai was born into the life of a kittypet. Her mother was a kittypet. Her mother's mother was a kittypet. Her mother's mother's mother was a kittypet, and so on and so forth. She was born in an urban town where the clan cats would have never ventured, though she does recall rumour of feral cats wandering alone through the town. There isn't a lot that Chai remembers from her time with her mother, though her mother did make an effort to prepare her for being taken away to a new home - as if her mother had experienced it before. While Chai does miss her mother and siblings, she has grown accustomed to her life and has a great fondness for her two leg.
Being three years old now, Chai and the two leg had been one another's only companion for essentially her entire life. Chai was comfortable as a solitary cat with just her little old lady wandering around and wanting to cuddle in front of the fire and television every night. Things changed when the clan cats arrived, Chai was eager to sit in the window and watch them but equally her two leg wanted to do the same! The pair would sit in the upstairs window, the kitchen window and even the bathroom window together, peaking out to the garden hoping to spot one of the cats that had moved into the property. It didn't take the elderly woman long to start leaving out food for the cats and sitting out on the bench by the backdoor in the hope that eventually the cats would begin to trust her. Chai took a bit longer to venture further than the open back door, but would soon join her two leg on the bench watching the cats who appeared to watch her in return.
What did they think of her?
Did they look down on her for enjoying the life she had?
How did she really feel about their way of life?
Initially Chai had been nervous to venture out and converse with the wild cats that had claimed her home as a part of their territory, but they seemed to have welcomed her in as an extension of their clan - even if she doesn't really contribute much to them besides gossip she may pick up from the two leg, or even prewarning the cats that her two leg will be roasting a chicken which would mean leftovers were to be left out for them! Chai is eager to share her two leg with the wild cats, but they have yet to warm up to the little old woman that potters about the property - though they are more than happy to take her offerings of food!
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olivionary on Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:44 am, edited 1 time in total.