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Jayden


Shaking his head, Jayden rolled his eyes as he reached down and stroked her behind her ears.

"No figuring women," he mused.

"Even women cats..."

Some time passes, the pair performing their regular routine. Night falls, and the world quiets as people retire for the evening. Eventually the time of bed came and the depths of sleep came to Jayden.

Tiger is awakened during the night by a feeling, something out of place. Her burden is still lost in the land of dreams.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Her usual nightly routine is to curl up on the bed but also to do her sentry rounds, check all is well, check her wards are in place, catch up on the gossip, that sort of thing. But this time she feels something is different.

Opening one eye, she checks on her burden, then on the spirit and then jumps down off the bed to start her patrol.. each room of the house and then outside is her normal route.

The spirit seems complacent but near her burden. The patrol inside yields nothing much. All is as it should be.

Outside though she has the distinct feeling she is being watched.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Something isn't right. She is not sure yet but she has to find out, her burden's safety may depend on it. There is a large overgrown bush in the yard, she sometimes uses it as a toilet. She heads for it and disappears inside, her nose sniffing for any trace of anything else occupying it. Once inside she whispers her true name backwards and then, hopefully invisible to any watcher, she starts to search around for any trace of another.

She hopes that one of her colleagues might visit. It would be good to have company.. and backup.

Outside the favorite bush shows no sign of another. Invisible she stalks out and begins to take a more careful look. She spots the tracks of another near the outside of the route one might take to climb up and look in her nap space, if one were a cat.

Inside Jayden wakes, though it is unclear what it is that has disturbed him.

Jayden


Suddenly he found himself sitting upright in the bed, wincing at the crick in his back caused by the sudden movement.

"What the..." he mumbled, looking around in the almost complete darkness.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She puts her nose to the tracks sniffing to see if they smell of cat.. and of a cat she knows. Depending on the scent, she may follow or not.

It does smell of cat but for some reason the scent is muddled. She can't identify a particular or single cat.

Inside Jayden is feels comfortable like he is wrapped in a warm blanket fresh from the dryer

Jayden


He still did not know what had waked him, but he felt... well comforted and comfortable and, for a brief moment, he wished Dizzy was with him to share his comfort.

She'd be okay, he thought... she's around here somewhere.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

Hmmm..

She is not sure what to make of it but she can't sense a specific threat. She'll do one more circuit, check her wards and then head back to her burden. Never a good thing to leave them to their own devices for too long... even when asleep!

She enters through the cat door as if summoned by him. Tiger can see the spirit near her burden in a guarded pose.

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

"Everything OK?" she enquires of the spirit. "I thought I sensed something earlier but I can't find anything out of the ordinary."

The bed looks very tempting and she gracefully jumps onto it seeking a warm spot.

The warmest spot is behind her burden where he had just been laying, in the middle of the sheets of course.

The spirit answered "I felt an evil presence. That has to be the stupidest line I have ever thought. A spirit feeling that way, but it is true. Something approached the window with a malevolent intent."

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

She moves to the warm spot, wriggling to get into the most comfortable space, meowing softly whilst she talks to the spirit.

"Are you here to protect him? And what can you do?"

She needs to know just how much flexibility she has.

"Is the presence still here?"

"The presence has left." It answered first. "He called me, so I am here to protect him."

There was a silence "I do what I must do," it answered, which of course was no answer at all. It seemed to know that and finished with "I can shield him from physical attack."

Tiger-Lily/Dizzy

No threat.. and the warmth is getting to her, her eyes are closing and she starts to purr softly.

"Good."

Interesting and useful but two can play the ambiguity game as she doesn't quality what she means by good. Just a warm doze, conserve her energy...

[OOC Well shall we move on to the day for which the game is known? Just need a scene where Shadow, Tiger-Lily, and Jayden can all be together. ]

[Maybe a day to finally tidy up the yard before winter sets in. Jayden might want to cut grass, paint the fence, weed.. that sort of thing. Dizzy would be there to protect and renew any of her wards that need sorting. Shadow could come by. Any other ideas? ]

[I like it. What do you think Ex? Though it was a condo type structure maybe we can adjust? Shadow if your reading this pipe up too. Or we can swap to ooc.]

[OOC: It would suit me, Pandemonium...]

[Does it abut Shadow's territory? If he has motive to get in range, sure.]

[OOC It does now...

Will try and get the new thread up tonight after the Stupid Bowl. :)]