ORIGIN - louder than thunder

The cat's eyes had opened long ago, but all she had seen was darkness. At first, the confined space she had been limited to was more than enough for her to lazily stretch, but now it was so tight that her limbs were curled up against her gut.

To boot, she was fairly sure that was her hind paw incessantly touching her face.

It was more annoying than anything else, really. As she shifted and tried to stretch like she did just some weeks ago, she felt something hard against her spine. As she pushed harder against it, she heard a gentle crack and then, all at once, there was coldness and she was tumbling out of something.

That something, of course, was an emerald chrysalis laying snugly in a dark corner in Polaris. The kitten lay shivering on the cave floor for a moment, cold and wet, before she finally pushed herself up to her paws.

There was a second, deafening crack from the churning clouds above, startling her, but regardless she began pacing slowly out into the dimly-illuminated halls of Polaris, quiet and wide-eyed as she tried to figure out what to do next.

Bremen

Sneak sneak sneak sneak.

Run!

A white blur erupted from Tunnel N as Bremen made his daring escape from Canis and its neighboring room of Orion. He liked being home. Home was where he had a comfy spot to sleep and where he had all the food he could possibly eat, but he didn't want to stay home all the time. Nope, exploring was in his blood, it had been a huge part of his life. he'd explored this room before, but he hadn't explored all or it. No one could explore every little corner of such a huge space, right?

No one except him! Of course it didn't matter if he actually could or not, the real fun was in finding new hidden places to run and glide and play. Everywhere else was dark right now, but this place still had loud flashes of light that made the whole room like a party.

The little cat-sized hybrid squeaked in giddiness as he ran, his wings extended as he bounded into the air every few steps to glide for a second or two to get a taller perspective. It was on one of these glides that he happened to spot a green thing way far away. That looked like a new thing he hadn't explored yet!

Wings tilted some as he shifted to a new direction and began running toward the crystal, stopping just short of a little wet black creature that was moving.

His beak was open as he began catching his breath from the sprint, but eyes stayed wide and affixed to the little creature that seemed to have just recently come from the cage. Had it just woken up like he had a cycle or two ago?

"Hi!" he interjected with no warning between breaths, a goofy grin plastered on his bizarre face.

Thinking... thinking... thinking...
"This is my voice, isn't it neat?"
Tags: @Holly

Lazily, the cat paused to shake the wetness from her fur, listening to the sounds of... something, in the distance. Different from the cracking of her chrysalis or the thunder overhead.

Warily, Holly looked out towards the rest of Polaris, but saw only the clouds ahead and rocks and the ground, and somewhere in the distance the blue glow of another something, though Holly didn't know what it was.

Thump, and then the sound of... footsteps? The kitten paused and whipped her head around to where the sound was coming from, but by the time she got a glimpse of what was coming towards her, it was already right in front of her.

It did not initally occur to her how Bremen might be considered 'odd-looking,' however. "Oh, hello," she said, offering a polite, what-the-heck-just-happened kind of smile. "You're out of breath, you should sit down." She sat herself down even, at this, and began to lick the remains of the clinging wetness of her fur.

@Bremen

Bremen

With adrenaline calming down a bit now Bremen could see that this little fuzzy black shape was a kitten. A very polite little kitten that even noticed that he was all tired out from running. he wouldn't be for long though! He'd be up and running and exploring again in not time.

...but right now was sitting time. The hybrid flopped down onto the dusty ground and propped himself up by his elbows. This was better anyways, he was bigger than kitty but not by a huge amount.

"I'm Bremen." he declared after a few breaths, his beak still slightly unhinged as the effects of running hadn't quite gone away yet, "Did you just wake up?"

Thinking... thinking... thinking...
"This is my voice, isn't it neat?"
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