2nd Floor Common Room -- Monday Early Evening

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata had figured that even if Warren was more than pleasant about dealing with Yei, that it was only good manners to remove herself (and her cat) from the room at intervals just so he could spend longer than kitten could nap without Yei attempting to stalk and play with his feathers.

Yei was a bit sulky about this move it had to be admitted. She liked the feathers.

At least, until Hinata rolled a brightly coloured ball with bells in it across the floor of the common room and all thoughts of feathers disappeared from Yei’s head as things quickly reoriented themselves, in Yei's view of the world, to ‘Omigod it's moving--moving. My ball! After it! Miiine! HI BALL!’. And a fuzzy white kitten went stampeding after the ball as if it were the best thing ever.

For her part, Hinata contented herself with a book and keeping an eye on Yei.

[Ooopen as common rooms are, yes!]

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"I suppose we can make an exception," she laughed. "Just for you. So long as you're not one of those people that hates cats."

(*facepalm* Hi, sorry, we overlapped...)

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'm usually more of a dog person," Bruce admitted. "But I can make exceptions for friendly cats."

And thieves who dressed like cats, but that wouldn't happen for another ten years or so.

[I edited right before you commented, apparently. Sorry about that!]

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

The catgirl look never really went out of style, did it? Especially not in latex.

"Rookie's friendly," she said. "I never had a pet before, actually. Do you have dogs back home?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, actually," Bruce said. "But I'm never home anyway, so it's for the best. I'm Bruce, by the way."

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Elena," she said. "Nice to meet you. I was never anywhere where it seemed like a good idea, you know? To get a pet, I mean. It's a little more ... settled down than my life usually gets."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I can relate. So you tend to move a lot?" Bruce asked. The 'never' part was a good clue to that.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Oooh. How to answer this tactfully?

"I wasn't ... home enough," she said, hoping that was diplomatic enough. "Lots of trips here and there. You know how it is."

He probably did, but that was another story.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I flew to Fandom straight from Japan," Bruce said. "So I have some idea."

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Wow, I'll bet," she said, tilting her head at him curiously. "Is that far? Are you Japanese at all, or was it a business trip?"

He didn't look Wutaian, per se, but he might be taking after the other parent.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's on the other side of the Earth," Bruce said. The distance question made it sound as though Elena wasn't from Earth. Or an Earth similar to this one, at least. This wasn't surprising Bruce as much as it had on Saturday, so he had even less of a reaction to it this time. "I'm not Japanese, though. I was just there for some schooling."

Schooling in how to beat people up with honor. The best type of schooling, really.

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Do you speak the language?" she asked, flushing slightly. "Sorry, I ... don't really know where everything is. I'm not ... from here? It's complicated."

So, so many things in her life were.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Fluently," Bruce admitted. But since she brought it up... "Are you from an alternate Earth or a different world completely?"

He was able to ask that question calmly and he'd only been here three days.