05. [Voice]

[stakesthings]

[Buffy voice! Buffy voice of bleariness, in fact! She yawns.]

You know what? I'm not loving the features of sleep in this place. Not that my dreams at home were featureless, but there's all kinds of extra special badness to be had here, and it's been making me all prophetic. And when a slayer prophesizes, it's pretty much never of the good.

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[voice]

[halcyonthird]

[pinged by prophetic dreams.]

Giants.

Re: [voice]

[stakesthings]

Bit shaky on the exact dimensions of tallness, but tall they were. Definitely larger than, say, an actual cat. Or any known variety of cat.

Except maybe demon cats.

[Which is so her concern.]

[voice]

[halcyonthird]

You are a slayer of demon cats in addition to counseling the troubled?

[Those fliers are hard to miss, you know. Interesting combination, there! Anatole's last counselor had a similar resume.]

Do you often dream the future?

Re: [voice]

[stakesthings]

I'm a slayer of all relevant demony things. It's a sacred calling. The counselor thing is more like a day job. You know, get a little experience, scrub up some souls, pay the bills.

[...]

Often enough.

[supercilious]

You've been dreaming of naked catgirls?

[stakesthings]

Believe it or not, that's way less sexy than it sounds.

[supercilious]

I hope so, for your sake. The Forges are just about overdue for sharing everyone's private thoughts and dreams.

[stakesthings]

Uh, what?

[voice]

[turquoice]

You have prophetic dreams?

[voice]

[stakesthings]

From time to time. If by "time" you mean "moments of great calamity and potential universal doom."

It's kind of a thing.

[voice]

[turquoice]

Implying that this is one of those times.

[voice]

[stakesthings]

Could be. It can be kind of hard to tell sometimes. You know, prophecy dreams, dreams about ducks...

[Video] This is obviously a springboard for a very meaningful conversation.

[naniteknight]

...naked catgirls?

[He's not a little bit red in the face at the thought. Shut up, it's totally your imagination.]

Um. Are we talking more girl than cat, or more cat than girl?

[Video] ...amazing. HAHAH

[stakesthings]

I'm gonna go with maybe a 7 to 3 ratio in favor of girl.

[Video]

[naniteknight]

O...oh. Well.

[Not getting redder in the face. No. Not at all.]

That's um. Interesting. In that if your dream was, you know, prophetic. And if we end up with catgirls in the city who are more girl than cat. Naked ones.

[HALP. BRAIN STALL IN PROGRESS.]

[Video]

[stakesthings]

You all right there, cowboy?

[slaythemoon]

I don't believe the "prophecy" thing, but the only catgirl I know is actually a girl who probably only wears clothes because other people ask her to and turns into a male cat.

[stakesthings]

You don't believe in prophecies?

Good thing Giles isn't around to-- wait, back up there. You know some kind of... genderbending shapeshifting catperson?

[slaythemoon]

Prophecies, fortune tellers, tarot, horoscopes, psychics... none of it.

[...]

Yeah. Couldn't tell you how she does it or why, but she does.

[stakesthings]

...haven't spent much time with ye olde watcher manuals, I guess.

Anyway, I think why is totally a better question than how. How could be all kinds of things. I totally knew a girl who turned into a rat. Although, come to think of it, she didn't know how to turn back so she spent the next three years getting comfy with pellets and cedar chips.