Should I be gracious, I wonder, if you were aiming to test my patience from the start?
[Subete, for his part, navigates the topic airily -- it's one where he can remove himself easily, because when was the last time he thought about animals in relation to himself? Sissel is hardly a proper cat, and they hardly have any reason to go beyond some kind of bizarre interspecies working relationship that is only maybe half-working. His idea of cats may be consequently a bit skewed.
Or maybe it's just the old cliché about cats and dogs writ large and retro. It's hard to say, with so much in the way.]
Beniyuri. [a thoughtful perusal of the name, filed away in a tidy pile of them; he looks a little more amused at the face, because apparently making faces at each other is the theme of today] I suppose you were both odd ducks, then. How nice. We had chefs, yes, but I saw them rarely.
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[Subete, for his part, navigates the topic airily -- it's one where he can remove himself easily, because when was the last time he thought about animals in relation to himself? Sissel is hardly a proper cat, and they hardly have any reason to go beyond some kind of bizarre interspecies working relationship that is only maybe half-working. His idea of cats may be consequently a bit skewed.
Or maybe it's just the old cliché about cats and dogs writ large and retro. It's hard to say, with so much in the way.]
Beniyuri. [a thoughtful perusal of the name, filed away in a tidy pile of them; he looks a little more amused at the face, because apparently making faces at each other is the theme of today] I suppose you were both odd ducks, then. How nice. We had chefs, yes, but I saw them rarely.
[Yes, plural. Why is his life like this.]