02 ❂ Draco

[absentconstellation]

[ Spam ]

[ The Cat can be found in any place which is comfortable, warm, or both, napping. Especially places where there is sun. He has no trouble navigating through doors or programming the enclosure. Occasionally he may even be found in the dining hall, with his plate of chopped meat and bowl of water. ]

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[absentconstellation]

[ Seeing that this is more than just a typical social call, Pounce finishes eating and cleans his face in short order. Then he turns to look up at the boy. ]

Yes?

[mercurialize]

[Eye contact isn't returned in full, but is instead permitted a glance.]

I've heard cats are supposed to have nine lives. How many have you had?

[absentconstellation]

A great many more than that.

[ His tone is flippant. He doesn't keep count. He does remember every single one. He continues to watch the boy, curious now what is on his troubled mind. ]

[mercurialize]

[He nods. It makes sense. Now, it makes sense. Before this was just an annoying cat that could somehow talk to the ka'kari, but now? Well, Kylar's trying to figure that out.]

So what are you supposed to be, then?

[absentconstellation]

I am a cat.

[ Seriously Kylar did you expect anything less? ]

[mercurialize]

[Less? No. More? Yes.]

You've got to be shitting me, that can't be all of it.

[absentconstellation]

It is true. You could not comprehend all of what I am.

[mercurialize]

[He frowns. The amount of times he's been told that, he's lost count.]

Try me.

[absentconstellation]

[ He reaches out to place a paw on Kylar's leg, sending with it the sensation of what it truly means to be a constellation: To have been born an abstract idea, in a world that both overlooks the Earth and is entirely different from it, born from the thoughts of mortals but also giving birth to the thoughts of mortals. A place from which every other Realm, even that of the Gods, seems so small in scale but so vast in content. A mind which holds everything that has been and much of what could be, so far distant from a human mind as to be nonsensical. He is an Usher painting given life, a God in fact but not in practice. ]

[mercurialize]

[The ka'kari may absorb the information, but it does, in fact, go way over Kylar's head. All he got out of that was. Stars. It's a start at least..? He doesn't say anything. Just continues to frown while trying to figure it out in his head.]

[absentconstellation]

That was only a sense.

[mercurialize]

A sense? You mean there's more?

[absentconstellation]

There is always more. It is not needful for you to understand everything.

[mercurialize]

But I need to understand what you just showed me, though?

[absentconstellation]

No. I only showed you because you asked.

[mercurialize]

Oh. Right.

So you don't really know how old you are, huh? But I guess you also don't care.

[absentconstellation]

That is about the sum of it.

[mercurialize]

And that doesn't bother you at all?

[absentconstellation]

I prefer to concern myself with questions that can be answered.

[mercurialize]

Like what?

[absentconstellation]

Like what it is that troubles you so that you find it simpler to ponder the inner working of stars.

[mercurialize]

Oh, c'mon. No one has ever asked you these kind of questions before?

[absentconstellation]

Rarely over dinner.

[ He begins cleaning his paws, reminded that his supper is done with. ]

[mercurialize]

[Shrug.]

I was going to wait. And everyone's got to eat, right? Well, most.

[absentconstellation]

True enough.

[ He keeps cleaning himself. He figures if there's more Kylar wants to talk about, he will. ]