I need you, I need you, by sun or candlelight [Magically un-backdated!]
Luka Petrovic is just leaving the O's headquarters. She'd been grilling Duncan about the whereabouts of one Jason Randall, a.k.a. J, without much success. After telling him to keep an eye out and call her cell phone if he got any leads, she's stalking out of the building to go find him herself. She has a Christmas present for him, and she is
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Or, in this case, a demon.
"Cats," Baron addresses them, hands on his hips, "I demand you bring me food. If you are going to follow me around the city like this, you had better earn my company!"
The cats are not listening.
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Perhaps, he muses, that other cat sent his cat friends after Baron.
...horrifying.
"However, they seem tame, and I cannot figure out what else to do with them."
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Luka squats down to get on eye level with one of the cats. "Hello cat, can you talk?" She's met cats that talk before, you see. But this cat just meows in her face. "I thought not."
Luka gets up. "Well, Baron, if they prove too troublesome, I can always dispose of them for you," she says with a shrug.
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Baron frowns.
"Just because you don't understand them doesn't mean they can't talk," he points out, solemnly. "Not that I claim to understand cat-language..."
And then there is blinking. Did Luka just suggest what Baron thinks she suggested? "...that's all right." He may have a bit of a soft spot for them, after all.
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"I met two cats that could talk once," she says.
Yes, Luka suggested what Baron thought she suggested. One of the (many) problems of her upbringing is that she believes that problems can be solved by an application of deadly force. But she doesn't actually care whether Baron takes her up on her offer, so she just shrugs and lets it go when Baron declines. "...whatever you want." It's not her problem after all.
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Oh, right. Plagues. Crazy talking cat in the street.
"Then why haven't I got the talking cats?" he wonders aloud as another cat tries to claw up his pant leg. "You think I could start a circus, Luka? Train them to do things?"
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With his luck, though, she might not know what clowns are. "Well, a circus happens in a great big tent, and there are usually animals who do tricks, and clowns, and sometimes fire, and people who like to flip around on little swings and fly through the air."
There are also sometimes freaks. He does not think that part is worth mentioning, because that is not the kind of circus he was talking about.
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"What kind of tricks do they do, do you know? Maybe we could try to teach them some now."
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"A lot of them walk on their hind legs. Some jump through hoops. Ow! Damned beast!" He tugs a cat off of his arm by the scruff of its neck and drops it, unceremoniously, back into the gang of felines.
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The cat is not impressed. It gives a yowl and scratches at Luka's hands. Luka, surprised, lets go.
"Bad cat," she says, making a move to smack the cat. She doesn't know any better. That's the sort of thing that would happen to her in her training, so she's just replicating what she knows.
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He makes no move to stop Luka, though, and instead hums thoughtfully.
"We may need fish."
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((Sorry for the crazy delay. School's been kicking my ass this last week.))
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