kynígi kai synkéntrosi [M, V]

The rabbit strokes the longer fur on their chin, almost like how a human grows out their beard. A wizard's rabbit? or a rabbit wizard?
'Mage, little cat. Mage. Wizards are very pre-labs timeline. So are witches. Mages catch all the concepts, and magess just sounds weird. Don't you agree?' he nods in return. "excellent, we see the same idea. Now, I take it your adversion to looking yoru dog in the eye or even being near each other is this reasoning, yes?' a furry finger pokes him lightly on the bridge of his nose. On instinct, Skylos swats his paw away, and tries not to look the rabbit in the eyes. 'Or any animal. Poor child. Lets see.' The rabbit starts to pace, stroking its beard and mumbling to themself. The rabbit is nearly at or bigger then he is, and Skylos isn't a 'little' cat. Granted, his fur makes him poofy, and clothes hard to fit.
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His initial thought on adopting the worginu once he had shelter of his own, was to train her up and have her protect him. Because not everyone fancied such a shabby kitty cat intruding on their territory. Namely some of the tamers who loiter outside and are totally in league with the soup kitchen's ghoul of a cook. Returning home in the dead of night is rough on the sleeping. But she's a lot more nervous of bigger creatures then herself. He'll have to work on her guts. Er, teach her how to be brave? If she can endure his spooky issue, maybe handling big animals or scary humans might help.
'Start small on that, child. Puppies scare easily to almost anything.' the rabbit prompts.
"Are you reading my mind? And how am I able to speak what you are able to understand.... nobody understands Greek." The rabbit grins big buck teeth and taps the side of their head, just beside their ears.
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5.0 kitri

"Never hurts to learn the language of the locals. It might get one out of a tight spot someday." the rabbit replies as he crouches in the sand. The earth swirls around his paw as he twists his hand around back and forth like one trying to use a metal cylinder to make a hole in the ground for planting. Perhaps its because of the ocean that the sand hole starts filling up with water almost immediately. Its fascinating. Something to watch with great interest. The rabbit stops swirling and pulls his paw back sharply, pulling back a... thing. It's long, black, and writhing. Snapping. What is this...? The rabbit grins as he holds up their catch. It writhes furiously, a long black and blue fish that Skylos can't help but compare to an angry worm. "This, child, is a viperfish. Be careful not to let it latch on, these fish will bite down and not let go." He holds the fish out... to both him and to Kitri.
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"I heard that worginu are large creatures with no fear. They must become brave when they grow up, because she's... well, a coward." Ok, thats taking it a bit far, Skylos thinks to himself. Yes, Kitri's a nervous pup right now, but she's super strong and exciteable from how short a time he'd had her. His eyebrow ridges furrow a bit, and doesn't make him look friendlier.
"Kitri is young, and not a coward." he defends his fluffy friend. The rabbit shrugs in return.
"Say what you want, I say what my eyes see. See ya." the large rabbit wanders off past a dune, and disappears. Even those giant footprints vanish. How spooky. He's left with the viperfish and Kitri peeking out from behind his legs.
'YOu're not a coward in my eyes.' the fluffy cat mutters to his canine companion. "Just young. Poor pup, wasn't that rabbit just so rude." Kitri shuffles a bit, leaning her weight into hthe back of his knees.
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This is strange... why does she smell blanket? Blanket is nowhere. Blanket is at home. Home, right? Looking at the cat, she barks once. Bark! Bark! Ok, twice.
'Did you see something Kitri?' the cat maows at her, as he steps over a bit of beach grass. She woofs, and paws at the sand where it smells like blanket.
He fishes around in the dirt, and finds... a dead puppet?

Looks like someone took a pair of shears to a frog puppet and severed its head, leaving a lumpy rag in the sand. How cruel. And its heavy, when Skylos picks it up. Its enough to require two hands. Perhaps because its the size of Kitri's torso. Big puppet. It wiggles a bit in his hands, and the cat almost drops it. What is it?
Bark! Smells like blanket! Kitri yaps and noses the object in the cat's paws. What is it? WHat is it?
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After July mansion, after the temple, at the clinic

The cat has a very foggy memory after getting to the top of the temple after that. He's aware of being at the bottom again, and finished the job. He sat in the exam room of the vet who should be operating on Kitri, wringing his free paw in his pocket against a literally empty amount of fabric. A kindly matron had a first aid kit open on the exam table, his arm stretched across the table, stitching up the deep gash in his paw pad with a bone needle. She provides him with water and a snack so he doesn't pass out on the table... and he eats it slowly. Like someone packed cat food into a bar of protein. Ick, but it fills the void of his growling stomach.
She finishes with his injury, and goes back through the room with a bright glowing sign of a needle. When that goes dark, the operation would be complete.
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Anxiety of Kitri's ailment. Distress. The knot of exasperation and terror that he'd lost his hard earned coppers to either nature or a thieving hand. He's been taught at a young age that blaming others for your own misfortune is delusional. He'd known the dangers of hiding his coppers jar in a location that was high traffic. The (he assumed) poisonous frog's head puppet, was this another part of his string of misfortune? He looks at his paws. There's red welts where he'd carried the yellow-white marble to the two sided box, holding it in his hands. But these aren't burns, they're energy welts. His golden eye aches at the sight of them, a hum of warning. What he'd done... had been powerfully magic related. How is splashing your blood on rocks magic related? Or waking up at the bottom of the temple. It didn't seek to calm his wound up mind.
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