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Post by dodd4 on Mar 18, 2015 10:32:42 GMT -5
the old queen delicate washed a paw, "sometimes, other times it's when they sit down with me. the fortellings began to come on when my sight started to fail, funny the cards and the bones are the only things things that I can see well now, and they are clearer when there is a meaning to them." she said. then Bathsheba began to work on the other paw.
"as for how I came to work here...I was doing my thing to cadge sleeping space out at one of the dockside pubs when a young ginger tom came in he had just found his Lady Love to be fickle and was melancholy and heart sore and I laid a pattern of cards for him...I was not expecting he reading to come in so clear it was more than a bifrightening I can tell you, I had not seen the like before nor since. why it was so clear I cn almost belive thatHE read it as well! ll he rushed off and I did not see him for a long long time. it was when he found that I was doing readings for soof the Henches that he had me brought here. funny old world innit?"
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Post by Cayran on Mar 19, 2015 22:41:08 GMT -5
Mercedes listened intently. The silver and orange queen leaned back on her hands as her ears tilted in Bathsheba's direction, pondering over her story with and inquisitive look on her face. "I've always figured Macavity to be a rather superstitious tom. He must come to you a lot." Sadie wondered if Macavity had offered her protection, too. Mercedes didn't think she needed protection, per say, but it was nice to know that she wasn't allowed to be "screwed around" with unless she gave prior consent. It made working with the benches tolerable.
"Is Macavity still head over heels for that one calico queen? Whats her name...starts with a "D" or something..." Mercedes shrugged her shoulders when she couldn't remember said queen's name, and simply looked at the elder in hopes that she knew what she was talking about. "If so, he needs to let that gal go. Love is a bullshit emotion. It'll hurt you far more than it will do good." Her own past experience with love had turned her heart hard, and Sadie's emotions were raw.
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Post by dodd4 on Mar 20, 2015 18:36:35 GMT -5
the old queen shook her head "not as often as you might think, usually I lay a pattern and then go to him!" she cackled then she gave her tail a shake with a sour look.
"yessss, his 'Golden Demeter' and no I have been unable to talk any sense into him on that regard." Bathsheba said. the old queen sighed, "I had thought that he had gotten past it,
but noooo seeing the little twist and wrestling with her at the Junk Yarders bloody ball seems to have set him off again. but what are we to do? 'ours is not to reason why ours is but to do and die', or some such rubbish!"
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Post by Cayran on Mar 23, 2015 13:49:21 GMT -5
The young healer nodded, lips pursed in silent contemplation. She had fallen hard for Renazzo, but she had never been obsessed with him. Macavity's need for Demeter was rather unhealthy, but she would never tell the ginger tom that. He was her employer after all. She wasn't getting compensated from her personal opinions, that was for sure.
"Well, to each their own I suppose. Still...it just seems silly to me. To want someone that much, that is." She shrugged, trying to shake the thought off. Sadie ran her thumb over the pad of her right hand, popping the bones out of habit. Her mother hand tried to break her of said habit, but Sadie wasn't much of a conformist.
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Post by dodd4 on Mar 24, 2015 5:30:28 GMT -5
Bathsheba gave a dry chuckle, "indeed."
then the chuckle turned into a good natured cackle, "but then when I was your age
I had toms fighting over me!" she said striking a pose that might of been seductive on a better conditioned cat but on the old queen it emphasized her loss of muscle and loose coat.
she sighed, "oh and I encouraged them, surely I did! and look where it got me. a step ahead of old Grizzy, but not much of one. take it from me if you can find a partner that you can rely on, it might make things a little easier on the both of you when you get to be my age."
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Post by Cayran on Mar 25, 2015 14:28:09 GMT -5
"Well, I am afraid I am a hopeless cause when it comes to love,"Mercedes said with a soft chuckle. "I've already experience one horrid failure, and I do not care to jump into another relationship anytime soon."
Any tom that could possibly desire her was in for quite the rat race. She wasn't easily persuaded, and her heart was broken nearly beyond repair. It would take someone just as persistent as her and patient to win her heart, if ever.
"Did you ever settle down with another?" The silver and orange marked queen tilted her head as she observed the elder queen.
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Post by dodd4 on Mar 26, 2015 8:54:21 GMT -5
Bathsheba shook her head ruefully, "I never settled down with one in the first place!
and then I looked around and the sweeties gone with my looks, and I..was alone."
the old queen wrapped her tail around her, "tis an age old tale I am afraid, but I get bye."
she gave the younger queen a shoulder bump, "you get to feelin this w you look me here?
nothing quite like being alone together."
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Post by Cayran on Mar 26, 2015 22:24:09 GMT -5
"Ah, but you've got me all wrong," Mercedes said, glancing over at the older queen with a sideways smirk. "I do not want to be alone. I just do not want to be in love. Loneliness is quite the depressing outcome." She was quite convinced that she did not need love to be happy. What she did need was companionship - something she found to be difficult to achieve here in the warehouse. Patients were one thing, but friends were another.
"Be truthful with me Sheba. Am I doomed to a life of loneliness here? Are there only a handful of sane souls amongst murderers and thieves?" Sadie would accept her fate willingly. She wasn't the type of queen to cry and whine. She was thankful for her job, but she longed for a little more life in the darkness. Her only constant right now was the scent of antibacterial and never-ending wave of dust.
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Post by dodd4 on Mar 27, 2015 18:44:53 GMT -5
the old grey queen looked thoughtful, "well you did hit the nail square on the head, Mackie attracted quite the mad crew. if you don't mind him being slow there is Manny, sure you have to use small words but at least the big lug won't think that you want to jump in his bed if you smile at him!" Sheba said, then she touched a finger to her temple and tilted her head to one side with her eyes we and with a big vacuous smile, "and then there is always Little Miss Two Tails!" she chirped brightly, "don't get me wrong she is an alright sort but the naivete can geta bit old ey? ce it dearie, other than them unless we get some new blood I am your best bet!"she said with a cackle.
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Post by Cayran on Apr 1, 2015 14:19:56 GMT -5
Sadie nodded, trying to picture their faces in her head. "I've seen both and spoken briefly, but I've not been here too terribly long, so they are nothing but acquaintances." She wouldn't speak ill about either, for she did not know them well enough to develop a real opinion of them. Though, the queen with two tails seemed somewhat of an oddity. She seemed nice enough - the tails must have been a genetic mutation of sorts.
"Now, Manfredd - doesn't he hang around Macavity a lot? He seems to be quite the big tom." While she didn't know him, it was hard to picture him as being sweet, especially due to the fact he seemed to be a glorified guard. Who knew. She tried to stay out of Macavity's politics.
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Post by dodd4 on Apr 2, 2015 16:01:57 GMT -5
the old queen chuckled, "oh that he is, and yes he does. if he's not pulling bodyguard then he's usually up to Goon work, you know intimidation delivering painful messages that sort of thing." Sheba said then she stretched carefully positioning her kinked tail, "I asked him once why a nice fella like him was doing what he did. he answered 'it was a living, and who did you want doing it, someone who had a taste for it or someone who wouldn't go off and do it on his own?' and when I asked then why for Mackie he said ' 'cause the Boss never made fun of for being dumb.'"
old queen shook her head,
"funny old world."
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Post by Cayran on Apr 8, 2015 10:12:47 GMT -5
"Still...if he is nice, I don't see how his conscience allows him to do Macavity's bidding. Still though...I don't know. I won't pretend I understand his situation. We are all here for some reason, one way or another." She shrugged her shoulders and popped her knuckles. Her mother had once told her it was a bad habit, but Sadie didn't much care. Her mother didn't approve of a lot of things she did. It didn't stop her from doing them, though.
"I suppose I should be getting back to my quarters. I wouldn't be surprised if the next shift comes back with a few bumps and bruises..."
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Post by dodd4 on Apr 8, 2015 16:44:35 GMT -5
the old queen grinned, "from what I've seen the Big Lug lets others do his thinking for him and salves his conscience by looking out for the queens kits that hang about here, someone outside of Mackie's inner circle bothers you go looking for the big guy."
then she sat up and nodded when Saddie mentioned her duties "you are likely right about that! but if you ever wt to chat you look me up hear? it's nice to talk with someone sensible you know what I mean!"
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Post by Cayran on Apr 14, 2015 9:57:58 GMT -5
Mercedes smirked, rubbing her hands together as she sat up. ”I am a big girl, ‘Sheeba. It may not look it, but I am sturdy in my own right, so I am not afraid of the idiots that run around here,” she said, patting the elder queen’s shoulder. ”Nevertheless, thanks for the tip, I appreciate it.”
The silver queen hopped down from the crate and extended her hand to Sheeba, just incase the elder queen needed help down.
”Definitely,” she replied with a smile. ”Whenever I need a decent conversation, I’ll head your way. Same goes to you.”
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Post by dodd4 on Apr 14, 2015 17:17:22 GMT -5
the old queen and tilted her head so that the light caught the milky murk of her cataracts "the days when I judged someone on their looks are long past!" she said, then her nose twitched and she
reached out and took Mercedes's paw. "than you Sweets," she said as she climbed down.
"and will take you up that!"
Bathsheba paused for moment to get her bearings and then shuffled into the shadows off with a wave.
(EXIT Bathsheba stage left)
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