y'know like nyah [open]

[korekara]

WHO: Souji, Honoka and you poor unfortunate soul
WHERE: Recollé Square
WHEN: 2/21, late afternoon
WHAT: Rescuing cats from trees. or something like that.
WARNINGS: probably none?!? will be edited if needed

[ It's a nice, ordinary day in Recollé Square, isn't it? The weather's passable. Birds are singing. Cats are meowing.

Hold up.

That's right, cats are... meowing? Or that's what it sounds like, anyway. The distinctive nyaaa of a mildly distressed cat seems to be coming from the branches of one of the trees dotted around the park. It's followed by another meow, which suggests the presence of another cat up there. Weird.

Surely you wouldn't have the heart to leave a feline in distress up a tree, would you? ]

Comments

up in the tree ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

[tarotcards]

[ souji has made himself very comfortable here, just chilling out, relaxing, maxing all cool, distressfully meowing outside of school ]

Like... y'know, nyah.

[ ... what were they talking about before?? ]

i hate that you have a fucking icon for this

[korekara]

No, no, like-- nya.

[ she cat-paws the air with the hand she isn't death-gripping his arm with. ]

Nyaaaaa. A little more warbly. Siamese are all screechy and stuff so you gotta make it more throaty!

[ unbelievable. ]

i have an icon for this too (๑✪ᆺ✪๑)✧

[tarotcards]

[ he has one hand on the branch to steady himself because he has no business in falling down this tree and cracking open his beautiful head. with his free hand, he raises it against his head to mimic her cat-pawing and repeats after her ]

Nyaaaaaa.

[korekara]

Perfect!

[ she makes a noise that sounds like a squeaky toy being trodden on. it's an unsettlingly accurate impression of a siamese. ]

If we sound like expensive kitties, someone's gonna wanna rescue us for a reward or something.

[momentaryspring]

Huh?

[ Ryoga scowled up at the nearest tree -- not out of any dislike of cats, but on general principle. ]

I could have sworn I heard two meows.

[tarotcards]

Nya....

[ this first nya is done in a high pitched squicky voice, while this second nyan sounds like a cat is dying ]

Nyannnn.

[momentaryspring]

[ Wtf? Was that even...

Ryoga reached for one of the larger branches on the tree and shook it experimentally. ]

[korekara]

[ SCREECH ]

OHHH MY GOD, DON'T DO THAT, I'M GONNA FALL!

[burningblossoms]

[Definitely sounds like a cat, and another cat stuck up the tree. Being a good, upstanding citizen that she is, Yukiko Amagi approaches said tree and...looks up.]

Hello, kitty...?

[tarotcards]

[ and when yukiko looks up, she'll just see these two dumb kids sitting up in the tree. souji just waves ]

Nya.

[burningblossoms]

[...]

Souji. Honoka.

[tarotcards]

[ another wave ]

Yukiko-sanyan.

[korekara]

[ Honoka paws at the air. ]

Nyaaaaaaaaaaan.

[burningblossoms]

[!]

...Honoka why are you up a tree pretending to be a cat?

[korekara]

'cause we're stuck!

[ a beat. ]

Uh, nya.

[ nailed it. ]

[rosettareflected]

[In her free time, Alicia likes to go for walks. It's good to see if anything's new around the city, and lately it's given her time to think about how her life has gotten an order of magnitude more complicated in the last three weeks.

...The sound of cats meowing in the square is, while not particularly unusual, worth investigation. Particularly when there are two different cats in what is not a terribly large tree - meaning they'd have to have gotten stuck up there together? If it came down to it, she could probably work her way up with a combination of athleticism and some kind of martial arts (her mind is calculating the odds of a throw-like maneuver against a somewhat elastic object being able to pull her up instead) but she needs to see if there's even anything actually up there in the first place.]

How curious... Hello, kitties, are you up there?

[One hand shields her eyes as she looks into the tree, searching for kitties. She may miss anything else in the tree at first, given she's searching for cat-sized objects and not humanoids.]

[tarotcards]

[ it's pretty hard to miss two grown teenagers just sitting on the same branch and when alicia looks up and makes eye contact with souji, he just raises his hand and... paws the air ]

Nyan.

[rosettareflected]

[Well, that's certainly not wrong - they're not really hard to spot, but it still takes a moment for her mind to process them. But the unmistakable sound is quite similar to the one she heard on approach. Alicia's head tilts in confusion for a moment.]

...nya? Ah, but this seems an odd place to pretend to be a cat. Wouldn't you prefer a ball of yarn or something? Preferably on the ground?

[tarotcards]

That does sound better. Unfurtunately, we've have chosen the wrong activity and have realized it a bit too late.

[ well, the actual reason why they're up here has nothing to do with pretending to be cats but he'll roll with it ]

[moribound]

[It's late in the afternoon and Minato honestly just wants to go back and sleep, but sometimes he can't help looking up trees before he walks by them, especially when he can hear two meows that definitely don't sound like they belong to cats.

He can't exactly tell whether he regrets this decision or not, looking up and seeing two people heavier than cats clearly stuck up there like cats. At least they're probably not suspicious, he'll say that.

> Do you need help meow?
> ...Whatever.]

Ah...do you need help meow? [It only seemed appropriate and polite to respond in kind.

Maybe.]

[tarotcards]

Mewbe.

[ no, the verbal tic will never stop ]

[moribound]

[He doesn't look very worried, somehow... Minato could have left it like that, but for the lack of concern Souji shows about being stuck on a tree Minato doesn't feel like he should let things slide.]

Wait a meow-ment then. [It's not a long walk away to a shop and Minato decides to just say that he's rescuing a cat on a tree rather than telling the truth, but the ladder's big enough that it takes him a while to drag it back to the tree , placing it as close to the tree as possible before opening it up.]

I think that should do it, but...how did you get stuck up there, anyway?

[gemgineer]

[ OH MY STARS IS THAT THE SOUND OF A CAT - MULTIPLE CATS IN DISTRESS???

Peridot peels toward the tree in question, not quite...peering up into its branches as she whips out a grappling hook, because why wouldn't you carry a grappling hook with you at all times. ]

Don't worry, kitties, I'll save you and love you and make sure no harm comes to you ever again!!!

[korekara]

[ sorry Peridot. There's no kitties, just a pair of idiot teenagers sat in a tree.

Honoka starts spluttering, though. ]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! You're not gonna throw that thing up here, are you?

[tarotcards]

[ ... well, this just took a dangerous turn. Souji just kind of... scoots further over down the branch, kind of dragging Honoka with him. ]