Room 511, Saturday

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Francine wasn't the Best. Student. Ever. but when she'd offered to help Blysse find out more about raised-by-wolves stories, she'd made sure to follow through on that, even if it had taken her awhile to get around to finding the books she remembered and inviting Blysse oh so handwavily over.

Of course, the follow-through got a little snagged when she opened up her bookbag while waiting for Blysse to arrive and instead of the library books she'd checked out, found a pile of playfully growling kittens.

Okay, that was gonna take some explaining.
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[OOC: Expecting the aforementioned, but also open! ETA: As is the door.]

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With Blind Seer off hunting in the preserve (the cafeteria didn't really supply much in the way of a wolf's usual diet), Firekeeper had no really reliable way of finding Francine's room. All she knew was that it was two flights of stairs up from her own, and so she'd gone up with the intent of knocking on every door until she found the right one.

The open door eliminated the need for that, though, and so Firekeeper poked her head through the doorway. "Am here," she announced.

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"Um. Erf. Hi!" Francine answered with a nervous grin. "We have a small problem with the books."

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"Is what?" Firekeeper asked with her usual directness.

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"Well, I also oh so handwavily checked out a history of the founding of Rome, 'cause there's kids raised by wolves in that, and That Inuit Girl Who Ran With The Pack, and Grimm's fairy tales?" She pointed down to the bag in her lap. Which moved. And yowled.

"But that's not what I ended up with."

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Firekeeper stared. A lot. And, okay, resisted the urge to growl at the kittens. "How," she said slowly, "is you getting cats from books?"

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Francine held up her hands and spread her fingers. "Good question? I mean, I don't think they're Dinah's kittens. They just showed up in the bag, and the books are gone. They either used to be the books, or they crawled in and ate 'em."

One of the two kittens that weren't wearing a red hood popped its head up high, then tumbled over the edge of the bag onto the floor. It growled fiercely.

Really.

Rarr.

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Well okay then. There was only one way to respond to that.

Firekeeper growled right back at it.

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The kitten's eyes widened and what came out of its mouth next was more a squeak than a growl. "Rarr?"

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Firekeeper snorted, and then knelt down in front of the kitten.

"Big words for one so small."

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The other two kittens had tumbled their way out of the bag as well, the one in the cloak making its way very carefully along a line on the carpet, and the other growly one following it, occasionally making little jabs at it then darting away.

The kitten that had approached Firekeeper seemed to shrink into itself when she came closer to its level, taking a deep breath as if considering one more growl... then rolling over on its back and waving its paws at her.

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Well, at least it knew she was higher-ranked than it was, she'd give the kitten that.

"Why is that one wearing clothes?" she asked, pointing to the cloaked one. No Beast she'd ever met had done so... except for herself, of course.

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"It's dressed like Weetiny Scarlet Cape," Francine said, not at all managing to avoid making eeeeeekitty noises at it. "That's one of the stories in the fairy tale book."

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"Fairy tale?" Firekeeper asked, absently reaching out to scritch behind the ears of the kitten who'd rarrr'ed at her.

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It batted lightly at her fingers, but didn't exactly put up a fight.

"Fairy tales? They're stories for kids. Like, old folk legends about magic and stuff?"

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Firekeeper nodded. "Humans where I am from is having such," she said. "Queen Elexa telled of dragons."

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"We have some of those too." Francine nodded back. "Weetiny Scarlet Cape's about a girl and a wolf, though."

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Firekeeper watched the scarlet-cape kitten, and the one following it, curiously. "Is one following it supposed to be wolf-kitten?" she tried not to think about how absurd the idea of a wolf-kitten was.

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"Rowwwwwr!" said the one following. The caped one took a peek over its shoulder, then kept walking along the carpet. But a little faster now.

"I think that's what he thinks he is," Francine replied with a snicker.

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"If cat was raised in wolf pack, it would be such," Firekeeper pointed out.

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Francine couldn't argue with that, exactly. "It'd be a really tiny wolf, though."

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And Firekeeper couldn't argue with that. She shrugged. "Would not be only wolf with strange shape," she said with a small smile.

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The wolf-kitten who'd been stalking Weetiny Scarlet Cape apparently couldn't stay completely in character long enough to get to Grandma's house, because as the caped kitten neared Francine's toes, the wolf-kitten pounced on it, tackling and rolling.

"Hey, play nice," Francine said, reaching down to try to separate them.

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"Wolves is not playing nice," Firekeeper laughed.

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"She's not a wolf," Francine said, picking up the little orange kitten in the red cape. "And in the story the wolf tries to gobble her up." Francine shook her finger at the wolf-kitten. "No gobbling!"

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"She is human, in story?" Firekeeper asked.