Cats! Monday, 4th period

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Welcome, everybody!" Jon was actually smiling this morning. Hey, he liked his subject. As evidenced by Issa lounging on the desk up front and getting plenty of scritches.


"This is 'Cats!'." Jon looked at them and shrugged. "If you don't know what a cat is, this is Issa, and she's a cat. There are all sorts of cats on Earth, organized into two subtypes - pantherinae, the ones that roar, like lions, tigers, and leopards - and felinae, the ones that purr, like cougars and domestic cats. The others I've mentioned are all wild cats that haven't been domesticated, bar a few insane individuals. Cats as they are now have been around for about three to five million years with few changes. They have flexible backbones, retractable claws, and good night vision, which makes them excellent little predators. Er...depending upon the temperament of the individual cat, of course." He eyed Issa, and she gave him an unimpressed look back.

"And that...that will probably be the most intellectual we'll get in this course. We're going to meet cats, pet cats, play with cats, and learn about cats. But first, I don't know if you all know each other, so we'll do introductions, as is the tradition. I'm Jonathan Sims - Jon or Mr. Sims is fine - and I'm from Bournemouth in England, though more recently London. Also in England. I'm from more or less the current time. I've owned or lived with several cats over the years, and currently have Issa."

He nodded at them. "So, erm. Name, roughly where and when you're from, and what experience you have with cats."

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Re: Introductions!

[deathsmajesty]

This girl had gone to the Stark School of Storytelling, hadn't she? What Liliana wouldn't do for a Silverquill professor on the faculty.

"All right darling, why don't you begin at the beginning and include useful things like how and, if you're really feeling generous, why. Magic, I'm assuming, plays a part?"

Re: Introductions!

[mustbeawitch]

"It's not like I did it on purpose, you know," Lydia said, quite taken aback by how rude Liliana was being. "I was only small. But I just...pretended Kitty was my sister, and everyone humored me, and I suppose because I was a witch then one day they all believed it and she really was my sister. But she was still also a cat, of course...until recently. Now she's just got her girl shape."

If Liliana was waiting for accidental toddler magic to make sense they'd be here a while.

Re: Introductions!

[deathsmajesty]

It wasn't the toddler magic that Liliana tried to make sense of, simply her explanation of it.

"Ah," she said, once it had been explained properly. "Now that is quite interesting." She sat back and regarded Lydia with glittering purple eyes. "So it was neither an illusion nor simply a change in their perceptions, since this sister of yours has a permanent body of a young woman, though you did manage to either warp their memories enough to accept this new daughter or at least enough to make them not notice or care about any inconsistencies...Did she still act like a cat but everyone assumed it was the correct behavior? Or could she walk and talk and eat like a human as well?"

Re: Introductions!

[mustbeawitch]

"Well, both, of course. It was very funny when she'd be up upon the rooftops and no one seemed to notice that it was a very odd place for a Bennet girl of Longbourn to be, and most annoying when her needlework was better than mine."

Re: Introductions!

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana chuckled at that. "Needlework has always been and will always be a curse," she said. "Still, all that as a young girl? You are a clever little sorceress, aren't you?"