Me? Talk? Nah, you're just hearing things. [OPEN]

[invincible_kuro]

Characters: Kuro and anyone on the Convoy
Content: A stowaway on the Convoy is in search of a place to nap. He is also trying to avoid being thrown off the ship and left in Antrim by pretending to be "just a cat"...with dubious success.
Setting: Anywhere on the Convoy.
Time: Sometime after the ship landed in Antrim.
Warnings: Language, possible

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[oppositeshore]

With Mister Box firmly tucked under one arm, Oichi was completely prepared for heading out to Antrim. Then she saw the cat and got sidetracked. Because, hey, a cat! She watched, mildly interested as he rounded a corner. The talking went completely over her head, because talking wasn't weird. People did it all the time.

Her footsteps were surprisingly silent as she walked up behind the cat, and she crouched down so she could take a closer look, "Mister Kitty, what are you doing?"

[invincible_kuro]

It was usually hard to sneak up on Kuro unless he was asleep or otherwise occupied, but when he was he'd usually jump about a feet in the air and pull some kind of weapon on whoever surprised him.

Like right now.

"ARGH!"

When he saw that it was just some human woman, he lowered the gatling hand-cannon.

"Don't sneak up on people like that!"

[oppositeshore]

To her credit, Oichi didn't even flinch with a gatling hand-cannon pointed to her face, just blinked and tilted her head to one side staring at the cat.

"Sorry, Ichi didn't mean to scare Mister Cat."

She extended one finger and poked the lowered gatling hand-cannon, not sure what it actually was.

[invincible_kuro]

"Just...don't do it again."

He batted her hand away.

"Stop that."

[oppositeshore]

She pulled her hand back, "What...is that on Mister Cat's hand? Do cats normally have that, Mister Cat?"

Because she could swear most cats she had met up to this point didn't have something like that.

[invincible_kuro]

Kuro stared. Well, at least she wasn't annoying.

"What, this?" Kuro waved the weapon, "It's a gatling-hand cannon. And no, normal cats don't have them."

[oppositeshore]

He looked like a normal cat. Minus the hand-cannon. "So...Mister Cat isn't a normal cat? Mister Cat is a special cat?"

[invincible_kuro]

"...yeah. Something like that."

He wasn't really interested in explaining even less so since he was convinced that she was either a weirdo or an idiot. So: pretty much like everyone else he knows.

[oppositeshore]

"It must be nice...to be special."

She was going to straighten up again, remembering that she was supposed to be going outside and helping. A weight in her arm made her look down, "Oh, Ichi almost forgot, Mister Box...this is Mister Cat."

The broken journal stayed silent and Oichi felt the need to explain, just in case the cat thought the journal was being rude, "Sorry...Mister Box isn't really...good with words."