the cat

[instar]

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[pandion]

"So my soulmate possibilities are conveniently, like - cinched up into a small space of agreeable soulmates."

[hold_infinity]

Robin giggles. "Or at least more agreeable than Ethan. I don't know, he gets along with Trouble all right. But Trouble is pretty agreeable himself once he takes a liking to somebody,"

[pandion]

"Agreeable. Eenh... I dunno, the word fits basically, but I wouldn't have picked it out of the dictionary. He's friendly I think I'd say."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, friendly's better."

[pandion]

"Trouble has too much going on to be agreeable," elaborates Andi, "agreeable people are nice but they aren't too complicated."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah. Trouble's plenty complicated," she agrees.

[pandion]

"I used to not be complicated. I might be getting more complicated. I mean, I can turn into animals, that's big right there."

[hold_infinity]

Robin laughs. "Does that mean we're all complicated?"

[pandion]

"I guess? Aren't we?"

[hold_infinity]

"I don't know. When the point of comparison is Trouble, no, I don't think so. When the point of comparison is some person who doesn't believe in aliens, then maybe."

[pandion]

"Yeah, one of those. Man, remember not believing in aliens?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah," she sighs.

[pandion]

"It feels like it was longer ago than it was."

[hold_infinity]

"I know what you mean."

[pandion]

"Oh well."

[hold_infinity]

"I'm gonna find some more people to brag to," Robin decides, and she goes looking for Ethan.

Ethan is with Trouble.

After telling Ethan and Trouble, Bella is the logical next person to find.

[instar]

Bella is upstairs. Charlie's in the room too, but they don't appear to be interacting.

[hold_infinity]

"Hi!" says Robin. "I figured out how to make a lion/tiger/jaguar/leopard hybrid morph!"

[instar]

"How'd it turn out? Is it hard to combine the acquisitions?"

[hold_infinity]

"Not very! I got the hang of it all right, and it was only my first try. I think Trouble's experimenting as we speak," she adds.

[instar]

"What's he mixing up? More cats?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah. Snow leopards are fluffy," she explains. "Dunno what he's trying to combine one with."

[instar]

"What's the procedure?"

[hold_infinity]

"...Hard to explain," she says, "although Ax told it to me just fine, so maybe it's just easier done than said. You have to sort of - when you morph just one thing, you know how you think about it first? Think about all the morphs you want to combine. And just... push them together in your head. You're supposed to be able to control the result, but I didn't do a great job of that."

[instar]

"But you like your result anyway?"