2nd Floor Common Room -- Monday Early Evening

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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.

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Tails could flip, and slither, and fly away at the last second! Or thwap other kitties, lightly, in the face.

This was interrupted by Rookie realizing she needed to scramble up and really, really smell all of Yei's face. She hadn't gotten all of the eyebrows before, and those things are vital.

"Oh, don't worry about it," Elena said easily. "Nice to meet you, too. And back home, I'm in a group where the new member is always the Rookie, so a friend suggested it. What does 'Yei' mean?"

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"Rookie's a cute name," she answered, smiling. "And Yei means flourishing--th-that's what my wish for her was, so it became her name."

Weeeell if Rookie was going to be all In Her Face then Yei was just going to stick her face at Rookie's chest. HA. Face in Chest. And inspecting. This was serious stuff here. Very Serious.

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Oh! Oh! Face-in-chest! Rookie was going to lick the top of Yei's head. See how she liked that!

Omnomnom. Other kitties tasted good!

"Oh, that's pretty," she said, easing into a chair, eyes still watching to her kitten. She wasn't feeling protective: she just got transfixed by the cute now and then.

She colored slightly at realizing it, and turned her eyes back to Hinata. "Flourishing. Has she been flourishing?"

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Hinata's smile was soft at noticing the pink in Elena's cheeks and she diplomatically chose not to mention it.

Besides, watching the kittens was an absolutely valid excuse for distraction.

"She has been," Hinata answered. "At least, so far as anyone can tell. I cannot talk to her and have her answer in words."

Yei was starting to think the whole face-in-chest thing had been a bad idea since it severely limited her options when Rookie started tasting her. But--AH HA. Stomach fur was ticklish, yes yes? Especially when little whiskers went nosing about!

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"I bet someone on this island can," Elena mused. "But I don't think you need to. I mean, if she's happy and cuddly and so on ... then you have to guess you're doing something right, right?"

There was only one answer to that: Rookie was going to FLOP onto her back! And wave her paws in the air! And ... and wave them! Look! The waving!

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Waving! Oooo, waving! No way could she resist that! Down she went in a butt-wiggling crouch before pouncing at the paws. Paws! Must be subdued! Or licked and nudged and sniffed at. That worked too.

Clearly subdued had a fairly wide definition when you were a kitten.

"Th-That's been my theory," she laughed softly. "And so far it seems to be working. She's been with me for a little while now--have you had Rookie long?"