Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

[endsthegame]

It wasn't often that Ender chose to leave the solitude of his room or the relative silence of the roof for potentially busier waters, but he'd been trying to make a good show of seeming to be more social over the past few months. A trip to the common room was warranted.

After some consideration, he finally came down from the roof - where he'd spent some time on some fascinating research just brought in from the colonies via ansible - and took a seat in the common room, flipping channels on TV until he hit a particularly senseless reality TV show. He upped the volume to a very audible level.

It wasn't that he was actually watching (or if he was, it'd fall more into the category of observing); he was more interested in seeing if the noise would draw anyone in, or if the very nature of reality shows would keep people far, far away.

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[glacial_queen]

It was a slightly grumpy Arcerian cat that prowled into the second floor common room today. Someone was getting pretty tired of being cat-shaped. Someone also thought that bue-painted claws was an affront to her catly dignity.

She stalked over to where Ender was sitting and glared. She wanted pettings, damn it all.

[endsthegame]

The Arcerian cat was certainly not the usual kind of pet kept around the dorms, which left Ender with the suspicion that it was human, not animal - for as much as you could seperate the two. He glanced at the cat, considering its stance, and then lifted a hand, moving it slowly towards the feline's head with an unspoken question.

"Student?"

That was another question entirely.

[glacial_queen]

Karla bumped her head on Ender's hand. "Rrrr," she growled, but friendly-like. She rose up on her hind legs, resting her fore-paws on the cushion next to Ender's legs. Resting against her chest ruff was a small Sapphire pendant.

[endsthegame]

That narrowed down the field.

He brushed his fingers over the fur behind her ears - for he was fairly sure it was a she, now. "I see you've finally been bit by the animal bug," he said, gently. "It won't last long."

[glacial_queen]

Karla growled a little at that. As far as she could tell, it had already been too long. But he was petting her, so the grumpiness didn't last too long. Climbing up onto the couch was a little tough--she was a small little cub, but with some undignified scrambling of her rear end and paws, she managed to pull herself up onto the couch.

His lap looked comfy. She decided she was going to claim it as her own.

[endsthegame]

Ender adjusted his position on the couch to allow her to settle there. It hurt slightly where her paws impacted, but he could deal with that. "Someone's looking after you?"

[glacial_queen]

"Rrrow," she growled in the affirmative. Though whether or not Ender could read tonal inflections of a species that didn't even exist in his world was another story.

She wanted to knead a bit with her claws, but out of deference to Ender, she contented herself with batting at his hand and purring growling with love.