[Week 33, Day 2] Clearly, this can only end well...

[cyberroids]

Who: Shou, Alice, any of the YGO cast they encounter in the house and any PH people who want Alice back
Where: Mizusato
When: week 33, day 2
Style: Prose
Status: Closed
Rating: G at the moment
Warnings: None now at least
Summary: A sub thread of the kitty shenanigans of Alice. Before nightfall on day two Alice decides to return to the remains of the PH

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[can_you_eat_it]

At first, Alice hadn't been concerned with the person walking the path - not even when he'd called out to her. She was a kitty on a mission. And better yet, it was a successful mission at that because she'd found exactly what she'd been looking for. For her, there was only one minor problem.... and since this person, who dressed much like Spiky-head and Kingy and Boobs, had followed her, well, that just meant he was volunteering, right?

Right.

Which is why she gave as commanding a mew as she could muster, then bumped her head against his fingertips before hopping down to the ground. She gave him a long look over her shoulder, then turned and trotted a few steps away, snagged a chain in her mouth, and began to pull the heavy locket over to him.

Clearly, she expects him to pick it up.

[cyberroids]

Shou smiled as the cat bunted against his hand, and was about to grab her when she jumped off the beam and trotted a few steps away from him. Before he could even think about following her she was coming back, with an object in her mouth Shou initially couldn’t see.

“What have you got there kitty?” he asked as he bent down to look at her treasure. When she was out of the way he could see it was a golden locket with shapes he barely recalled the names of on it and a button on the top. It was obviously valuable and equally clear the cat wanted it for something.

“Do you want me to carry that?” he asked as he picked it up, half expecting the cat to resist him. He was slightly surprised when he was proven wrong and quickly pocketed the locket to keep it safe. “Ah, so you do huh. Well is there anything else you need or shall we go?”

That he’s having a rational discussion with a cat he doesn’t find at all strange. On the contrary he’s endured worse spending three years with Juudai and he knows he’ll face stranger things again.

[can_you_eat_it]

Alice watched with a cautious eye until the locket was safe and secure in his pocket, then darted forward to try to claw her way up his leg, purring appreciatively all the way. She didn't have anything else she needed and didn't have a way to tell him to take her back to Elliot, but... she wasn't so sure she wanted to go back there anyway.

Guilt still clawed at her, ripped her apart from the inside out, so that she found it hard to look at any of her friends without that pain crashing over her again. Even better that she could hide with people that she almost knew, safe from prying questions or accusatory looks.

Yes, this was the better idea, which is why she simply looked up at him and gave a plaintive mew, as if to ask if they could leave already.

[cyberroids]

It didn’t take him long to return to the house; and despite her initial struggling the cat seemed quite content to let him carry her. The left over meat from his lunch might have had a lot to do with her sudden contentness, but he wasn’t going to complain. Shou was just happy that she wasn’t going to be spending the night outside alone in the wreckage like she’d seemed hell bent on doing

[can_you_eat_it]

Alice hissed at the name Mittens - honestly! She had two perfectly good names. She just didn't have a way to tell them to him.

Better to go back to her inspection then, and leave him to his foolish names. The room was a nice enough room, but the part that interested her most was the traces of vaguely familiar scents. And not just the food, or the meat, but scents that she'd been around before. But then... she'd expected that a bit. This one knew her other friends, so it stood to reason that they either lived there, or came here often.

And there was only one way to find out.

Which was pick out the most familiar scent and follow the trail - right out of the room.