Donut sighs, dramatic, then walks a little closer.
"It's perhaps time to tell you a secret of mine, Cat King. You see, while I was always living in the lap of luxury, I once loved someone very dear to me. His name was Ferdinand and our love was not to be. He was a moggie, a stray. Most nights he would sit outside my window and call mournfully to me, and I could not answer, because the window was shut. He called me such beautiful names."
"How difficult for you," the Cat King answers, flatly. "I'm sure he was very charming." It's only because she, too, is a cat that he keeps his crueler thoughts to himself - that she's a fool if she thinks he wasn't spending his time with other queens, as well. That what he felt for her was anything special.
“The POINT is…he had nobody. He had to make his own way. I know I’m lucky. We cats are not exactly social creatures. But I’m trying to tell you that being sapient and having human thoughts in a cat’s body also makes you feel very alone. And I don’t want you to be.”
"You only think that because you've been deprived of a colony your whole life. Cats aren't social like dogs, or like humans, for that matter. But we are social, nevertheless." In a way, he feels sorry for housecats. Especially those who've never known otherwise, didn't get the chance to choose between a life with other cats and a life with humans.
"I've been lonely hundreds of years, Princess. All I have to look forward to when I leave here is hundreds more."
She's silent for a moment, thinking on this. Before Donut becomes suddenly less 'on', and more herself. She paws at the floor, uncertain if it's all right to be showing vulnerability this early.
He grumbles, eyeing her. "You can visit while I'm still here. I'm not closing my cabin to any cat. But you need to be out there, too. You're not a broken being."
"Don't go spreading it around that I'm entertaining visitors. That's a cats-only privilege." He stands up and stretches, then turns around as he settles back into his bed.
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Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-16 08:08 pm (UTC)And that's all he'll ever be. The idea that he'd found 'his person' is so silly, in retrospect.
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-17 03:41 pm (UTC)"No wonder you're so protective."
Donut sighs, dramatic, then walks a little closer.
"It's perhaps time to tell you a secret of mine, Cat King. You see, while I was always living in the lap of luxury, I once loved someone very dear to me. His name was Ferdinand and our love was not to be. He was a moggie, a stray. Most nights he would sit outside my window and call mournfully to me, and I could not answer, because the window was shut. He called me such beautiful names."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-17 07:15 pm (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-17 10:16 pm (UTC)“The POINT is…he had nobody. He had to make his own way. I know I’m lucky. We cats are not exactly social creatures. But I’m trying to tell you that being sapient and having human thoughts in a cat’s body also makes you feel very alone. And I don’t want you to be.”
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-18 12:34 pm (UTC)"I've been lonely hundreds of years, Princess. All I have to look forward to when I leave here is hundreds more."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-18 12:36 pm (UTC)Finally Donut walks forward and curls up directly in front of the covered bed, her back to him.
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-18 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-19 03:33 am (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-21 01:38 pm (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-21 01:42 pm (UTC)"If you leave, I'll be by myself."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-21 09:28 pm (UTC)So she'll still have a magic cat, even.
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-21 09:45 pm (UTC)"But not understood."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-22 12:35 pm (UTC)"This place only holds pain and suffering for me, now. If I stay, I will be undone."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-22 01:53 pm (UTC)"Can I stay until you're gone?"
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-23 09:28 pm (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-24 02:45 pm (UTC)"And we can text?"
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-25 04:51 pm (UTC)"I'll check my communicator occasionally."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-25 05:29 pm (UTC)"Okay. Thanks, Cat King."
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-25 08:56 pm (UTC)Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-26 03:35 am (UTC)"I'll be back later." She promises.
Re: Spam
Date: 2025-08-26 06:10 pm (UTC)He believes her, unfortunately. She shouldn't be getting attached, but he can't deny a cat what she wants.