gitanes: (♘ it's a joke)
lila zacharov. ([personal profile] gitanes) wrote in [community profile] balance_memes 2019-05-06 02:05 am (UTC)

[It won't occur to her until later that he's offered her a measure of kindness, or at least of courtesy, in giving her time to recognize the fact that she's being put on the ground. Instinct takes over, and her body twists the way cats' bodies do in the instant it takes for her to fall to the ground. She lands with all four paws spread, gripping the ground, before backing up with her ears flat against her head.]

[He's bleeding. That's satisfying, actually. Her tail lashes back and forth as she tries to decide what to do. She's always leaned towards fight rather than flight, but there's no denying that he has a physical advantage. Besides that—]

[And she stops.]

[It's . . . a lot easier to think than she expected it to be. In fact, it's taken up until this moment for her to realize that she can think, overcome as she was by panic. But the cat doesn't own her right now, not like it used to after years trapped inside of it. This is a second skin, not one trying to obliterate her.]

[The twitching of her tail slows, but doesn't stop. She considers her options. And then she trots at Gilgamesh again, not aggressively but fast enough that another man might flinch — before trotting on past him, stepping on his foot along the way, to the mouth of the alley where the mask-seller's booth stood.]

[Except the alley is empty.]

[She sits down on her haunches and yowls. Now fucking what?]

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