{04 VIDEO feat Mollymauk}

[freshtilapia]

[The video opens to Fish awake, sitting up in what seems to be their bed. Their dressing gown is on, at least. It's late at night in Lunatia-- give or take about 3am. And if your volume is up high enough, you might catch the sound of... someone? being very busy the next room over. Fish looks pretty concerned.]

Ah... hello.

[This is awkward.]

It's been a while since I've used this to address the whole network but... I was wondering how people deal with... ah... cats?

[And there's the sound of a door busting open and a blur of violet getting in the way of the camera and Fish and the suggestion that the merfolk threw their hand up so as to save the communicator from getting knocked over.]

Molly what--?

Ignore me, I'm just sneaking in here.

Wait, I can't--

Yeah, it's fine, just let me crawl in here.

I'm on the communicator.

Great. I don't wanna talk I just wanna sit...

[Rustle rustle.]

Perfect.

[A pause of silence.]

Continue, I'm comfortable now.

[The communicator comes down again, a little closer to Fish's face this time, they look defeated. But there's a very content, lavender-skinned, heavily tattooed tiefling on them, their tail swishing lazily and making a mess of the video a bit.]

I guess now you all know what I need... ah... a bit of advice on. Sorry, I'll get to replying to any answers later. It isn't the easiest having a lap full of cat-like tiefling.

[They huff and grin before turning the feed off.]

Comments

[freshtilapia]

Huh. Interesting. I never knew that about cats.

[lightthedarkness]

Mn! They can't have raw fish either cause again their tummies can't handle it! But cooked fish is fine!.... Aaand I just realized... [Fish is a merfolk.... WOW, Usagi, wow. Usagi is bright red.]

Um... I am so sorry, please forget I mentioned the... the fish thing, Fi-chan.

[freshtilapia]

[ Fish throws a glance over at Molly and snerks. ]

Well, I think this cat can eat a lot of fish perfectly fine.

[lightthedarkness]

[Despite being a very sexually active rabbit, innuendo goes RIGHT over Usagi's head when it's anyone not Mamoru.]

You feed your cat a lot of cooked fish then? You should probably mix up their diet, Fi-chan, like chicken or beef or turkey every now and then.

[freshtilapia]

Oh honey, you saw who was on my lap earlier, didn't you? That's the cat I'm talking about. He isn't an actual cat.

[At that, they shake their head and laugh.]

He's just affected by the Cordis moon.

[lightthedarkness]

Oh. Sorry, I didn't think he was... I mean, I didn't know we even COULD do that! So I thought he was just a talking cat.

[freshtilapia]

Well... the moon does change us in different ways every cycle. There's no telling how we can be from month to month.

[Fish grins.]

What is your moon, Usagi darling?

[lightthedarkness]

Hmm? OH! Iris... and... I actually really hate it.

[She blushed.] I... never mind. [She didn't want to bring up how uncomfortable it made her to Fish when they already had so much to deal with.]

[freshtilapia]

Ah... another Iris. There seems to be quite the number of us. I’m one, too.

[ Usagi isn’t the first Fish knows to hate the Iris cycle. And Fish sympathizes. ]

Do you want to talk about what you hate about it, darling?

[lightthedarkness]

Um... well... I- maybe when you're not busy, you have a lot on your lap- er-plate as it is.

[She didn't want to talk about her heat problems in front of a complete stranger.]

[freshtilapia]

[ At that, Fish smiles kindly at Usagi. ]

Whenever you’d like, sweetheart. You know where to find me, alright?

[lightthedarkness]

Ah, yeah, of course! Let me know if you need any more help with your friend!