Room 511, Saturday

[thatsamilkshake]

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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[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Here?" Firekeeper snorted. "What unsafe about here?" Spoken like someone who'd never really lived anywhere that could truly be considered 'safe'.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Well, the Vice Principal tried to take over the island and attacked everybody with monsters once?" Francine offered. "Not that I told my mom about that. Mostly she just cares that I'm not there."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Monsters... is not safe," Firekeeper admitted grudgingly. "But you is no longer puppy, and cannot stay with your birth-pack forever."

[thatsamilkshake]

"I'm not--" Francine stopped when she realized that to Blysse, calling somebody a puppy wouldn't exactly be an insult. "I mean, no. Heh. I'm not." She lifted the orange kitten up and rubbed its tummy, despite its protests at being flipped onto its back. "We've got one of those already. Her name's Muffins."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Muffins?" Firekeeper repeated dubiously.

[thatsamilkshake]

She shrugged. "My mom likes to bake." More tummy-skritching. "Muffins is... cute. But not very smart."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Dogs is not as smart as wolves," Firekeeper said. Not boasting, just stating a fact.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Muffins eats paper," Francine explained, by way of comparison.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Paper is not being very nutritious," Firekeeper snorted.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Or very tasty," Francine said. "Then again I don't think dog food would be very tasty either, so what do I know."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Meat given to dogs is never best parts," Firekeeper said with a nod. Her world didn't exactly have kibble.

[thatsamilkshake]

"It comes in a can here. I don't even want to know what kind of parts are in there." Francine shuddered.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"In can?" Firekeeper echoed. "Humans here is not even giving them fresh food?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Well, we feed her from the table sometimes, but we're not really s'posed to," Francine replied. "Mom says it's not good for her." Usually right before turning around and slipping the dog a piece of bacon.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Humans is very strange," Firekeeper observed, with a shake of her head.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine laughed. "You can say that again."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Humans is very strange," Firekeeper repeated, uncertain as to why she was doing so.

[thatsamilkshake]

Which incited another bout of giggles. When that was out of the way, Francine said, "That just means you're right. Humans is... are... very strange."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Am glad you is thinking so, too," Firekeeper said. She was quiet for a moment or two, biting her lip thoughtfully, before she spoke again. "Francine?"

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine set the kitten down on her lap, and watched it immediately scramble off to start back down the road to Grandma's house again. "Yuh-huh?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"You taked out books for me," Firekeeper said. "And even though they is ending up kittens, this is still a nice thing. A friend thing. You should be calling me Firekeeper. It is wolf name. For friends."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Fire...keeper?" Francine repeated slowly, then flashed a bright smile. "That's neat. I've only got the one name. Well, sometimes people call me Francie." It didn't seem like a very Blysse... a very Firekeeper kind of word, though.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Is name wolves gived me, because I can make fires," she explained, touching the small pouch she wore around her neck that contained her fire-making tools. "When Earl Kestrel find me, he not know my wolf name, so gived me name Blysse. He is kind to me, so I not mind so much." It was a bit more complicated than that, of course, but her explanation was already more long-winded than usual for her, and so she didn't elaborate.

[thatsamilkshake]

"How long ago was that?" Francine asked curiously.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Two turning of seasons ago, he bringed me into Hawk Haven," Firekeeper said.