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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 16:17:50 GMT -5
Cassandra glanced up at Alonzo and grinned. She had missed the flirting male during his absence. Where was he again? Oh yes stuck with his humans. She remembered when her human used to that. Something about dangerous toms. It was nonsense. None of the toms were dnagerous in the Jellicle tribe. Once when one of the male Jellicles walked her home she remembered how her human had tried to hit him with a broom countless times. She did the same thing to mice. Snaping back to attention she pointed to Selina. "We have a new Jellicle here. This one is a bratty street cat. Or street kitten." She said proud that she was the first one to deliver the gossip. "Etcy hit her in the face already." She said wraping her tail around her legs.
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Post by Sonja [Alonzo] on Apr 23, 2007 16:22:08 GMT -5
Alonzo nodded. "And Etcy was justified in doing this?" He leaned in closer to Cassie, whispering, "Is she really that bad? Etcy may be hyper, but she's usually sweet."
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 16:29:28 GMT -5
Cassandra sighed. "I'm not really sure. Etcy rolled up and said hi and that she looked like Victoria, only more icky and dirty, she also asked if she needed help with the bath. And then she replied that she looked just like a bratty annoying kitten, and that she was one two, and that no she didn't need help with her bathe she wasn't handy capped. And then Etcy just...hit her." She said taking a deep breathe, explaining all that was tiring her out. "Munk says to give her a chance, and that she is a starving street cat and is only two years old. And all that junk. Anyway Burelle I think right now is the only one wanting to try to teach her some manners, or contact her at all.." She said all in one breathe.
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Post by Munkustrap Etc. on Apr 23, 2007 16:39:47 GMT -5
"Ah!" Munkustrap pulled Pussine away from his thigh, where she had begun investigating, mewing piteously and chewing on his fur. She had managed to nip him, and though she didn't have any teeth, she still pinched him a bit. "Go back to Simeon," he said, turning her back to her calico brother.
Burelle didn't stop purring as she answered Selina. "I'll do this for you once, but you'll be responsible for keeping your own fur clean after that." It probably wasn't the answer Selina was looking for, and Burelle continued to purr, slowly revealing the white fur beneath all the grime.
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 16:45:56 GMT -5
Selina grunted again. "I don't understand why everyone here even bothers with looking good. It is just a waiste of time. If I cared about my looks I would have never made it this far. I bet none of you could survive as streetcats." She spat her arms still crossed. The last time she looked at her reflection was in a puddle about half a year aga, she was dirty, but not as dirty as she was now. She still thought that she was only that dirty. Adn she sure as heck wasn't jumping into the lake anytime soon. She could swim and all, but she hated the water. The only time she was bathed was when she was cought in the rain. "And right now taking a bath is hurting." She said refering to the knots that Burelle was geting rid of.
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Post by Munkustrap Etc. on Apr 23, 2007 16:49:08 GMT -5
"Mmhmm," Burelle kept purring, sliding her paws around Selina's neck. She squeezed lightly, leaning close to whisper, "You're dead," into Selina's ear before resuming the grooming, her paws returning to Selina's shoulders as if nothing had happened. "If you kept up your appearance, baths wouldn't hurt so much, and you're a pretty enough queen. You may need to use your looks to your advantage." She curled her tail and angled her head at Alonzo. "Right, darling?" she called over to him, giving him one of her most charming smiles.
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 16:58:57 GMT -5
Selina's eyes widened and her ears perked up when Burelle whispered 'You're dead' into her ears. She took a moment to try to decode it. She couldn't really tell what she ment so she took it as a threat. She let her claws slide out. "Is that a threat." She whispered a slight growl in her voice. "I don't need looks, I got claws and teeth, and I know how to use 'em. And that is all I need. I don't need to be a prissy queen like you." She said sheathing her claws and crossing her arms again. "Are you almost done?" She said annoyed and wanting to be done with the bath already.
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 16:59:47 GMT -5
(Sorry I took so long, I just lost one of my molers.)
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Post by Munkustrap Etc. on Apr 23, 2007 17:05:02 GMT -5
"If I wanted to kill you, I could have," Burelle said, still purring. "If I had been a street cat, I would have snapped your neck right there." She lifted one of Selina's arms to continue washing her. "You're lucky that I'm much too civilized to kill a kitten. Or maybe, I'm too much of a prissy queen." She reached around Selina to stroke Leathik's head once before resuming the grooming. "What would you do if... the Rum Tum Tugger attacked you?" She gestured toward the large maned tom. While Burelle had no idea how well Tugger could handle himself in a fight, he was a large cat, and very clearly in good shape. He could probably give a kitten like this one a beating, no matter how skilled he was. "Would your claws and teeth defend you well enough against a tom that size?"
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 18:11:02 GMT -5
(I'm so sorry my internet is being so wierd right now!)
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 18:18:33 GMT -5
"I know you wouldn't kill a kitten. Your a mother. I know your a mother because you plopped a kitten in my lap. No queen as 'old' as yourself would dump some other queens kitten in a streetcats lap, so the kitten must be yours. And because of your motherly instincts it would be very /very/ hard for you to kill a kitten." She said smiling. She was also hoping that she was right, she would be very embaressed if she wasn't. She looked at Tugger. "The? Well, the the infront of the name shows that he has a very big ego, and the way he stands also suports that. Egotistical cats are easy to beat. But also he is very tall, but not as strong as that...uhhh...Munkstrap. So it would be simple. Wait for /him/ to make the first move, then dodge it, jump on his back and sink your claws into his back and your teeth into his neck! The more he struggled, the longer the cuts would be. Unless of course he dodged the attack and you didn't dodge the first attack, then.....uhhhh.....ummm....well that wouldn't happen to me!" She said with a nod and a grunt. "Size doesn't matter!" She stated proudly sticking her chest out proudly and lifting her chin high.
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Post by Munkustrap Etc. on Apr 23, 2007 18:25:23 GMT -5
Burelle sat back and laughed, still keeping her paws on Selina's shoulders. "Oh, darling, look closer. See the mane? You won't be getting any teeth into his neck. You get on his back, he rolls over and smashes you between his larger body and the hard ground. Then, while you're reeling from the pain - he's big enough, and you're small enough for that to break at least one rib - he lays into you with claw and fang, and leaves you a smear of red mush in an alley somewhere. And darling..." She licked Selina's cheek clean. "Have you ever heard of the Napoleon of Crime?" Her voice was quiet now, a murmur in Selina's ear. "I raised him." If Selina didn't know who Macavity, the Hidden Paw, the Napoleon of Crime, was, Burelle didn't know what had happened to the girl. Macavity was known throughout the country, or so she heard. He really was quite infamous for a cat. "So don't think I don't know what I'm talking about. Just because I live among the Jellicles doesn't mean I'm some prissy queen you can knock about."
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 18:36:15 GMT -5
Selina frowned then smiled. "Not if you hit him with enough force to push him forward which, even for my wieght isn't impossible. That gives you time to hop off, and it also gives you time to start running off, and I'm fast so I think I could get away. You said if he attacked me, which means that I should try to get away instead of try to beat him, I'm not stupid." She said proudly. "Yes, of course everyone has heard of Macavity." She said and then she whispered in her ear again. Her eyes wen't wide in suprise, she closed her mouth tight, thinking for a moment. Then she let out a snicker. "Impossible, Macavity ate his mother before he was born. Yes, he ate all his siblings in the woumb, then he ate out of his mothers belly killing her, and he finished her remains for dinner." She said, after her mother died she started sleeping in this box, and it turned out that once every years this cat who wen't all around the world on a ship came to the place near the box to tell stories to all the cats who came. She had listened to all the stories intently. He told all the tales of Macavity, and she clearly remembered them. "Nice try though." She said wincing a bit as her cheek was cleaned.
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Post by Munkustrap Etc. on Apr 23, 2007 18:42:38 GMT -5
Burelle continued to purr, unphased. "Wow. The stories have grown. I'll need to tell Ritzy's he's off the hook, that Macavity ate me instead." She shook her head. "Honey, if the Tugger attacked you, you'd be in front of him. Getting on his back would be difficult. You'd have to jump onto his chest to knock him back, and that's putting yourself in the way of his claws. After you've run off, injured, no doubt, who else might come after you? Or, you could avoid the whole battle with just a tilt of your head, flick of your tail... and not only would you be walking out without a speck of blood on your fur, but you'd also have a nice strong tom to back you up should you ever need it." She moved around to clean Selina's other side. "A good street cat knows how to utilise all of her tools to the highest possible degree, and not simply ignore one, especially not a powerful one such as a queen's charm, because she doesn't like it. You won't be able to rely on your kittenish innocence to keep you alive forever."
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Post by Arya on Apr 23, 2007 18:54:14 GMT -5
Selina's ears perked up. "Ritzy? Who is Ritzy?" She said trying to keep the curousity out of her voice, it wasn't working to well for her. Her ears drooped a bit as she poked the flaws in that plan too. "It's different for me to do that." She said glancing at her, and looking her up and down. "Not everyone is pretty like you and that other stupid queen over there, and like the queen that tom kept looking at." She said the two other queens she was refering to being Cassandra, and of course Bomba. "I ain't pretty, so all I have is my teeth and my claws. and like I told that other tom I don't need any friends!" She said her tail flicking in annoyance. "Does it always take this long to take a bath?" She said now glaring at the thin air for just being there.
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