Date: 26 September 2000
Time: Mid morning
Location: Alecto's Animal Emporium
Characters Involved: Pansy Parkinson, Aurin Helm only
Rating: It is Pansy, so I'm going with PG-ish.
(
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea ~ R. A. Heinlein )
Aurin was indeed in the back of the shop with the animals, having just brought a few down from the clinic. They were rescued animals that people had brought in, and he'd cared for them and tried to find their owners. Those animals whose owners couldn't be found went up for adoption. There were two new cats, a very young, playful tabby and an affectionate adult gray cat he'd taken to calling "Shadow," though of course whatever names owners picked for the animals would be the ones that stuck.
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There were only two cats, and Pansy was a bit disappointed; she was expecting a greater choice. She looked them over before transferring her attention back over to the man. The tabby looked very young and seemed a bit ... active. A nice way of saying "irritating". The grey cat, though, he was larger and more languid. And he had a look of the devil about him that Pansy found appealing.
She reached out to scratch behind his ear as she addressed the man. "Only two cats in a petshop like this? Have they got unpopular or something?" The grey purred and licked her hand and Pansy couldn't stop a smile from escaping. "What can you tell me about this one? Is it male or
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Aurin could see there was a connection between the girl and the cat. They would be good for each other, were she to decide to take the cat home. "That one's a male. He's a rescued stray. He was pretty beat up when he got here, but he still had a lot of fight in him. He's a good judge of people's moods, too, can tell if someone's happy or upset."
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She listened with interest to the man's description of the cat as she continued to pet him. A stray with a lot of fight? Well, he wasn't displaying much of that at the moment, docilely lowering his head and rubbing his nose against the palm of her hand. Well, maybe he could tell that she was "happy". Pansy had raised an eyebrow at that; she'd always had a hearty scepticism about anything to do with clairvoyancy in animals, even if she did consider cats to be more intelligent animals than most.
And it wasn't hard to tell if someone was happy or upset if you were an animal - either they gave you treats or a kick up the backside. Pansy imagined you'd catch on pretty quickly.
"Well, as long as he's got no residual health problems," her inflection made this a question rather than a comment, "I'll take him. I suppose if he's a stray then he won't have a name?"
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Not having fixed a price to the cat yet, Aurin did a quick tally in his head of costs for both the cat and his accompanying supplies, coming up with a grand total, "The price should work out to about 4 or 5 galleons, depending on if you want a cat-carrier for him."
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