{2nd Cat, Video}

[juzubeads]

[The video will show Kyo at the training area working on figuring his abilities, his newfound magic here. He's by now just figured he has animal magic recently but that is not that surprising. What is? That he has blood magic. Kyo stares wide-eyed and pale at the sight of his arm with blood protruding in the shape of some sort of blade from his elbow.]

What.....what is this?

[Because look. His beads have some History to them but that does not mean he expected this? Kyo isn't sure what to make of this but he does not seem to like it. At all. The way he pales, the way his chest heaves. The way his instinct is to just flee up somewhere high, alone. To try run from it and ignore it. But he can't. Short of not using the magic and he has no clue if that might have consequences as well somehow. Given how new he is to this.]

I knew about the animal one, because of course I have that here, but this?

[This he is less sure on. Less familiar with and more creeped out by. The implications of it and weirdness of it. In using his blood like this. He might have threatened if anyone got it in their head to go after Tohru with her animal magic but he is understandably distracted right now.]

Comments

[juzubeads]

Flavor compounds? Ah, I guess. If you can help grow crops. Fruits and vegetables with that sort of thing.

[Tohru with her enjoying cooking would probably love something like that. But, well. Healing suited her too. Healing was more her. In the way Tohru just helped everyone. Kyo gives a nod to the other saying it was versatile.]

[roseeclair]

Yup! Spiciness of herbs too; pretty much any plant-based part of a dish, even while cooking.

What's your other magic?

[juzubeads]

I guess depending on the spices you use. I've just only ever figured some basic simple dishes. Had to at least manage something edible because Shishou is a hazard in the kitchen.

....Animal.

[Because. Of course it is. Kyo and the Cat.]

[roseeclair]

Oh nice! [At least she's being sincere?] I've got a few other friends who are animal mages too. I'm happy with my magic, but I've always thought that one was really cool too.

[juzubeads]

It's not all that amazing.

[Then again. Kyo is more used to it than most everyone else. Considering the zodiac curse back home. He's kind of an outlier in that regard.]

[roseeclair]

Mm? How come? Just getting used to it or...?

[Look, she also has unique talking cats in her world, but uh... they're also aliens. With a thousand times less emotional abuse in their backstories.]

[juzubeads]

I mean. You know. There's. Stories. Even with my Familiar. A Bakeneko.

[Not a lie but not the entire truth either in him being well used to it because he transformed into a cat back home as well.]

[roseeclair]

Yeah? Hm... well, you're not alone there. My friend Minako just got here and she has a bakeneko for her familiar too. I've got a bear raijū. And well... [A mysterious grin.] It's not a first dealing with mysterious cats, for either of us. Good ones, though.

[juzubeads]

So you had mysterious cats back home?

[Look if he tries to keep this on her, he doesn't have to talk about his own experience back home at least.]

[roseeclair]

[Good call, otherwise Makoto might need to punch through the fourth wall and lay the smackdown on a good portion of the Sohma clan.]

Yup! Luna and Artemis, and they have a kitten named Diana.

[How versed is Kyo-kun in Greco-Roman mythology?]

[juzubeads]

So they're named for the goddesses?

[Or something? Wasn't it? Kyo did some study with school but whether he is remembering the names right or not. He might be remembering wrongly or have gotten mixed up somehow but the names did seem familiar somehow at least.]

Are the cats here too or?

[If so Kyo was likely to meet them eventually. Given his whole thing with cats. Attracting them and all, at least back home.]

[roseeclair]

Yeah, you've got it! [But her smile grows a touch more wistful.] And... not yet, but kind of hoping they might. Who knows with this place.

[Not only does she miss them and a lot of her missing sisters, it's a bit worrisome, thinking of them frozen in time. At least the spell keeps them safe, but...]

[juzubeads]

I've never had a pet. But I can imagine you'd miss them.

[Having someone, or a pet, around all the time and then not having that. It would take some adjusting to. Even knowing they were back home didn't mean you wouldn't miss them.]

Not sure if I'm aware of people's pets showing up but I could be wrong on that.

[roseeclair]

I think they can too, but there are rules for that. And they're not really pets, let alone mine. More like cat-shaped friends.

[juzubeads]

Rules? I guess I didn't realize. It isn't like I have a pet back home to consider checking that sort of thing.

[She says that and now Kyo wonders if these cats were strays? Or if she or her friends don't like calling the cats pets. Even if that is what he is assuming is the case, really.]