vatheon | Dey's gonna go huntin' dere, eh?

Who: Nepeta Leijon and The Disciple
When: Current
Where: Starting near the Elevator
What: Disciple and Nepeta go hunting up on the Island.
Style: Prose
Status: Closed

One final check of her winter gear before the Disciple heads out the door. It had been getting increasingly cold up on the island, as winter entered full swing. It definitely made for a more difficult hunting trip. Most game grew scarce during the cold months, it was a trait shared by many different worlds. As food sources for the grazers disappeared so did the grazers themselves, most opting to hibernate through the hard times. Some beasts were not made to sleep through and could still be hunted, but it was certainly much more difficult.

Having a second will help remedy some of the more difficult aspects of hunting during the winter. At the very least, two can cover more ground, and allow them to attempt more complex methods of hunting, other then sneak up and pounce. Plus there was the very added bonus of doing something with her Daughter. Any method of bonding with her and getting closer to her was something she would relish doing.

One last check, all her winter gear was in place, there was just two things she was missing. A very special kitty hood that she dons as she is heading out the door. She would not be able to hunt in it, but the first part of the trip she wanted to show her daughter she loved her gift. The other was the very intricate set of fighting claws made for her by Darkleer. The fit over the back of her hands, and due to her practicing with them she knows the basics of their special abilities; Retracting, Super-heating the blades to burn flesh, or surrounding themselves in electricity. They were marvels of engineering.

The trip to the Elevator was a quick one, excited as she was. Now, all she had to do was wait for her daughter to arrive.

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Which was fine, as Disciple's intent to continue the hunt was draining away the more she thought of Psii and everything else surrounding that particular scenario.

"I believe we will have to talk to Signless and get him in on this as well. He has spent the most time with him recently. They all live with Dualscar at his hive, anyways." Why did all roads keep leading to that damned sea-dweller?

Dualscar... Still needed to talk to Signless about that. That was a comm message she did not want to make.

"Let's talk to him about it soon, okay? So that when Mister Psii wakes up we'll have almost everything ready!" Nepeta frowns a little at that - she's not sure what to think of them staying with Dualscar, even if he's Signless' moirail. She knows Signless can look after himself, but Psii...

She sighs a little. "How have you and Miss Rosa been getting along in your hive?"

"That sounds perfect, Kit. As soon as he wakes, he will have such a wonderful party ready for him." She says as she comes to a stop on the trail she had been taking.

"Oh, She is wonderful. It is great just to have someone to keep me company. The fact that it was Rosa is all the better. I missed her so much, I am glad this place deemed to bring her to us. Our little rebel family is all complete now. I am counting you in there now, too, Kit."

"I'm really glad you don't have to live on your own any more! Even if you have Pounce and Leap too, of course. Oh, oh, Mama, I meant to ask!" She bounces about some more, good mood more than restored by now. "When they're older, can we bring them up here and teach them how to hunt too? Smaller things of course."

"I am glad to have the hive be more busy, certainly. As for Pounce and leap, I certainly think that would be good. They are natural-born hunters after all. Who better to teach them then the best two hunters in all of the bubble?"

"Yessss!" Nepeta beams, already imagining her tiny darlings as fiercely ferocious hunters, the terrors of all the forest! "I wish Pounce could get to see them - my Pounce, I mean. I think she'd have loved to have more kittens than just me." Nepeta, you were not a kitten.

Never give up on your dreams, Nepeta. You will always be a kitten, even if only to Disciple. "I am sure she would love them, especially with how you have helped raised them so wonderfully. She would be proud, I know I am."

Best Mamacat ever.

"Do you really think so? I always wanted her to be proud of me..." She turns wide eyes up to Disciple - it means so very much to her to hear that she makes her Mama proud. But she can never stop missing Pounce.

"I really do. You are quite the talented and strong hunter, and you are helping to raise to very adorable and bouncy kittens with me. You are amazing, and I thank the Light every day that I got to meet and have you here with me." This talk was bringing up thoughts of her own long-missing lusus. It seems like so very much time has passed since she was taken from her.

Nepeta burrows her face against her ancestor, all the praise quite too much for her to take. It means nearly as much as anything Pounce could have purred in approval.

"Love you so much, Mama!"

Burrowed as she was, she would not see the delighted smile etched on Disciples face. She will feel it, however, when her mode of conveyance turns around and starts walking back down the path she took, taking her outside the bounds of the forest.

"What say we adjourn this little hunting trip for now, and go get cocoa or tea and some tasty baked goods, instead?"

She nods quite vigorously, and it's a good thing her horns are still on the short and rather blunt side or she'd probably have skewered Di's chin by now. "That's a good idea! ...I'm sorry we didn't get to go hunting, but we'll do that soon, okay? We'll have cuddles and tea time now instead!"

"Oh, there will always be more time for hunting. I confess hunting in the winter has been more trouble then it has been worth. If we reschedule for when the island starts warming back up, It might be for the best. Plus, this way we can cuddle and have tea, like you said."

There really isn't much more to add to that! She's in perfect sympathy with her mamacat's feelings, and cuddling in her arms as she's carried off to the elevator seems to be all that's required from her just now.

Well, that, and perhaps a tiny bit of purring.

Dey's gonna go huntin' dere, eh?

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