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Post by | COMRADE | on Jul 14, 2009 18:12:35 GMT -5
"There's a difference between killing to survive rather than any other kind of killing," she meowed, blinking in surprise. She was about to suggest something else before he suddenly yowled out one word. What, bugs? She thought, puzzled. She had remembered leaping at some dragonflies and butterflies, but mosquitoes were downright annoying. But it was his choice. She twitched her whiskers with amusement. "Like, pouncing on the dragonfly or chasing the bug around everywhere? Or batting the beetle all over the place?" She remembered playing with beetles. They were fat, ugly, and smelled bad, but they were also slow so they were easy to knock flying and then catch up and bat them around again.
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Post by ~Hawktail~ on Jul 15, 2009 9:46:00 GMT -5
Bleak's eyes were shining. "No, none of those things. Catching them. That's what I did when I was a kit to keep myself entertained! Here, I'll show you," he meowed. He began to nose along the ground and in the grasses, finally pulling out a large pill bug. "Like this," he meowed, and threw the bug high in the air. It twisted and wiggled, Bleak found these little critters to be amazing. The bug fell from the air and Bleak stretched up and caught it delicately in his paws. He extended his paws to Sile. "You want to give it a shot? Or are you a girly-girl and don't touch bugs?"
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Post by | COMRADE | on Jul 16, 2009 6:51:42 GMT -5
Sile let out an amused purr as the bug was being flung around in the air. It was a bug she had never seen before, but it did look fun. "I've never played that game. Never thought about them much," she mewed, watching the bug smack onto the ground. When Bleak extended the bug in his paws to her, she prodded it with one of her own, then hurled it up in the air. As it flew up, she tensed her haunches and prepared to leap. The bug flew by her nose and she batted it down with one paw. Stepping back, she twitched her whiskers. "No, I'm not a girly-girl. Bugs are always fun to play with," she answered his question.
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Post by ~Hawktail~ on Jul 16, 2009 11:42:40 GMT -5
Bleak felt the edges of his lips twitch in the beginning of a smile. He watched Sile as she tossed the bug and caught it. The smile grew at her comment on not being girly. "Yeah, I didn't take you as one," he meowed. His chest had a light feeling to it.
"Alright, happiness; check. What else is there?"
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Post by | COMRADE | on Jul 18, 2009 8:17:24 GMT -5
Sile paused in thought for a moment, trying to think of the next feeling to teach the tom. There were actually quite a few. She'd let him chose which one. "You can choose from love, hope, imagining, and wonder," she meowed. She wasn't sure if he was ready to learn love yet. Hope usually came before love, but it was his choice if he wanted to learn it. She twitched one paw to let the bug struggle to its feet and scramble back to safety, and glanced back up at Bleak.
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Post by ~Hawktail~ on Jul 18, 2009 13:00:52 GMT -5
"Hmm," Bleak mumbled . "Love, hope, imagining, and wonder." He repeated his choices. He thought of witch one was probably easier. He never liked choices much, so this was a struggle. Finally, he spoke, "Let's start with imagining, that one sounds easier." He watched the little bug scuttle away and, when it was out of his sight, turned his attention back to Sile.
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Post by | COMRADE | on Jul 21, 2009 10:29:43 GMT -5
Sile paused for a moment in thought. "Yes, it is the easiest," she agreed, knowing that she might be able to come up with a sensible answer for this one. "Think of someplace that you would like, or think of somewhere that you think you would like to be at. Like watching a sunset, a rainbow. Or you can see yourself doing something you love, or think about what you would like to do in the future. All of that is imagining." Thinking to herself, her mind told her one of its ideas. Maybe imagining is just easy for me because I'm always imagining, it should, but she pushed it back. It still seemed the easiest to learn.
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Post by ~Hawktail~ on Jul 21, 2009 12:19:54 GMT -5
Bleak nodded and shut his eyes. Almost as if on command, shrieks filled his head. The sounds of the kill roared in his ears. Shaking his head violently, he tried again. Think calming thoughts, Bleak, he thought to himself.
Finally, he got it. He was seated by a river, not the violent river, but more like a creek. The clear waters flowed past with slight bubbling sounds. Bleak was sitting atop a rock looking about. This place looks familiar, he thought. Finally, he remembered this place. It was where he had killed one of his littermates. His sister to be exact. He had shoved her into the river and held her head under, drowning her. He shivered in remembrance and opened his eyes.
"Okay," he meowed quietly. "I think I want to try love."
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Post by | COMRADE | on Jul 29, 2009 16:53:44 GMT -5
Sile blinked and suddenly realized that it might be harder than she thought to teach him some things. After being such a violent cat for his whole life he may not have had so many imaginative places that didn't evolve some bad time in his life. "Okay," she meowed. She knew that love would probably be a tough one, so she had a careful thought before she spoke. "Love is one you see someone or something that makes you yearn to be with them, to stay with them forever, and never leave their side. It's feels like a mixture of happiness and imagination, but it's something you really want, and sometimes have to fight for. When you feel a really strong sense of love, your heart will skip a beat upon the sight or name of something or someone that you really love," she meowed, thinking of her family. Sometimes she had wished she hadn't loved them as much, so it wouldn't be as much pain as it usually was when she did think about them. But it was too late for regrets and wishes, as they were already gone.
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Post by ~Hawktail~ on Aug 23, 2009 10:31:12 GMT -5
"That's love?" Bleak was slightly stunned. He hadn't expected one emotion to be so... Complicated. The little cat saw something in Sile's eyes. She seemed so sad. "Love has brought you pain hasn't it?" Bleak tone was quiet and cool; he was surprising himself all over the place today. He looked away in slight embarrassment. He looked over to the bushes, as not to meet the she-cat's eyes. "Sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. It's just, you know, I've never had to worry about problems with this kind of stuff. I don't know how to talk about it to another cat." He still didn't meet Sile's eyes, in case of what he would see.
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