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Cat Shennanigans RP: Days 14-16
Who: Ram Easthallow and Joe Russo. Cameos from Owen & Gavin Matthews & Barrett Summers.
What: Day 14 did not go to plan.
When: 5th - 7th June.
Where: Akito & Jani's condo, Chez M.
Warnings: Unwilling magical transformation.
Completion Status: Ongoing.

Baring all four front teeth, Ram hissed at a pair of dark-clad legs. From above came laughter and a pair of hands lifting Ram into the air. Squirming with his claws out, he managed to rake them across a wrist just as the hands stopped supporting him and a moment later his paws landed on smooth tile. The sound of the door closing was loud and Ram spent several more seconds hissing at it, scrabbling to get a paw under. At first, there was more laughter, then footsteps moving away and after that, nothing. For a while, Ram staked out the door, parading back and forth in front of it, willing it to open as the anger slowly faded. Ram lingered a few more minutes, just in case, then turned his back with a disdainful flick of his ears to show he wasn't all that interested anyway.

After strutting down the many stairs, Ram emerged into wet. Wet ground beneath his paws, rain slicking black fur down to his small frame. Wrinkling his nose, he sneezed once, then set off. He knew exactly where he was going, but two different instincts were telling him two different ways to get there. He did his best to mix and match, sometimes following paths and roads, other times disappearing into pockets of trees. At least once, he got distracted stalking a shrew, only for it to disappear into underbrush while Ram remembered where he was supposed to be going.

Bedraggled and with muddy paws, he finally caught the scent of other familiar cats, pattering down the garden path to the back door before realising it was closed. Disgruntled, he skulked his way around the house where a car was pulling up into the drive. The person who emerged smelled faintly like friend, but overlayed with the strange unnatural scent of burning air. Keeping his distance, Ram followed, streaking through the door at the last minute before it closed. Inside in the dry, Ram lost track of time as he thoroughly investigated each new room. As he went, he caught traces of a scent that made him want to rub himself against it and purr: a scent that meant belonging and comfort.

When he returned to where he'd first arrived, it was to greet someone new coming in through the door. This person smelled much better, like things growing and coming into flower. Ram mewed up at him, tentatively hopeful. The man crouched down and Ram allowed himself to be petted, even following into the kitchen so his paws could be cleaned. There was a trace of that comforting scent there, so Ram went to it and meowed more loudly, twitching his tail in a way that, to him, plainly indicated a desire to be taken to the source.

His attempts at cat-human communication were clearly unsuccessful, the gardener walking back to the other room and taking a seat on the sofa, which he patted encouragingly. Leaping up, Ram tried kneading his paws into a thigh, but all it earned him was more petting. With a huff of breath, he stretched himself out against the leg and let the hand stroke over his back. It was a soothing rhythm, one which made Ram's eyes close with contentment until his companion patted his head a last few times and got up, opening the door out into the garden.

Ram investigated from the doorway, sniffing suspiciously, but the rain must have stopped some time after he got inside and the path under his paws was relatively dry. Patrolling the space, Ram greeted all the flowers before clambering his way up the trunk of a tree. It gave him a good view of the colourful riot of the garden, of the other cats coming and going. Each of them individually stopped by the base of Ram's tree, making curious noises up at him before departing. Finally, the door opened again and the largest of the three cats returned, bringing yet another new person, practically headbutting his ankles until he came to a stop directly under the branch Ram had chosen to occupy.