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What? Did you think this wouldn't touch the animal patrons as well?

Looks like human[oid] females aren't the only ones cycling in the bar this month.

There's a large, cougar-like cat roaming between the tables, yowling, screaming and, every now and then, will roll about on the floor the way you've seen housecats do.

It would appear that being around a large number of hormonal women has caused Tasha to come into heat. Or rather, the scent of dozens of women going through their monthly cycles has caused her to come into heat. Or maybe it's empathy that's led her to this state.

Then again it could just be a funny case of coincidence that Ian's lir is in estrus and acting very friendly to everyone, rubbing against them and purring loud enough to pass for a car engine.

Either way, there's a cat who's perhaps the only one enjoying this time of the month - much to Ian's chagrin.

[This post weirds me out in all sorts of ways and that's why I have to write it.

Stupid muses...]

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She'll get over it though. Heat cycles may be a bitch and a half but they don't last forever.

"That is the bar?" he asks. "I see no one in attendance." He thinks a moment. "Perhaps they have simply gone into the backroom to fetch something from their stores?"

"Uh. The Bar's-- special. Speak to it." Zuko grins, and then says, "I know it sounds insane, but it works."

Insane, but then Ian is known to speak aloud to his lir, regardless of whether anyone is listening in or not. And when she's not in view? You might swear he was a madman tripping on some kind of weird drug.

"I ... ask this bar and it will give me what I desire?"

It can't hurt.

"Bar Master," he says, "I require a place for my companion while she is in the state she is. I do not want the people in this bar to be accidentally harmed while she is like this."

Oddly, the bar complies, much to Ian's astonishment.

"I believe I now have quarters in this place," he says, staring at the keys dangling from their fob.

Isnt' that fab? Zuko continues to rub-down the happy kitty, and then says, "How are you going to get her up there is the question?" he asks, and looks down. "She's been hardly listening to you now..."

Simple.

"I head for the room, and it is likely she will follow me."

That's the plan though.

"She's in enough of a mood to sufficiently suffocate me that she will follow my lead into this room that the bar has given me."

Let's hope so.

Let's pray there are no distractions either.

Distractions like the hot hot massage hands of doom?

Zuko takes them away. "Good luck to you, then."

Yeah those would qualify as a distraction.

"Thank you. I believe it is time I quarantined my lir..."

Tasha we go now, he says and makes his way in what he hopes is the direction of the rooms.