First entrance.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

[OOM [Not finished; still in progress]: The established Milliways tarot cards meet up with the new ones and a discussion of the bar is held.]


Here's a new face you haven't seen in the bar before.

With two you have.

"—this is Milliways," Strength says, speaking even as the door opens for the trio. "This is the Bar at the End of the Universe, where people from every world you can imagine and a few you can't meet, greet and generally have a jolly good time."

Dog barks happily. "I think I'm going to like it here," she says.

"Good. Now if you'll excuse us, Wheel and myself have business to attend to."

And so this is how one of the Twelve Earthly Branches comes to Milliways.

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[mogget_cat]

Oh great, just what the bar needs. Another dog about, thinks the starkly white cat on the Bar as it eyes the newcomer.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog would protest that. If she heard it.

She's of the firm position that she only looks like a dog.

Spotting the impossibly-white cat she trots over, wagging her stump-tail as she goes.

A new friend to make!

[mogget_cat]

Augh, and it just had to come over here.



Someday Yrael will think to try and figure out how many of his thoughts are actually his, and how many come from having been stuck in the shape of a cat for so long.

The cat's tail flicks once or twice as the cat silently watches the dog approach.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Not!cat meet not!dog.

This could prove interesting.

"Are you one of the people that lives here?" the Australian Shepherd says, unaware of whatever Yrael is thinking.

[mogget_cat]

"I am. This is my home." The white tail goes *flick* *flick* *twitch*.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog's tails goes "wiggle wiggle".

Which is about all you can do with a short tail.

"Is it? I'm new here."

She noses closer. A dumb move maybe.

"Do you like it here?"

[mogget_cat]

A thick cloth napkin appears on Bar under Yrael's paws before he flexes his claws into the wood. Bar is smart like that. Yrael's claws close on the napkin.

"Obviously, or else I would not have settled here."

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog is just too happy to care what happens to the napkins Bar provides.

This is new, there are people here she's never seen and she wants to meet everyone.

Hey, she spent centuries living with eleven other not!animals; it gets boring.

The tail continues to "wiggle wiggle".

"Do you you think you could show me around, since you live here?"

[mogget_cat]

Yrael has not really studied the Chinese zodiac, so he does not know to protest the exclusion of the Cat.

"I could, but I am perhaps too busy," he flexes his claws absently into the napkin, perforating it with holes.

Not that he was doing anything before the Dog came over.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Cat isn't entirely excluded. In some places Cat is the Fourth Earthly Branch and not Rabbit.

Another day for that.

"Oh. That's too bad," Dog pouts. "I was hoping someone would show me around. I'd bet Strength or Wheel would, but they've got things to do."

The tail is not "wiggle wiggle"-ing any more...

[mogget_cat]

And see, the mun had never heard that version of the story.

Yes, another day.

"Perhaps those things are more important." Yrael says, unkindly, wrapping his tail about his feet.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

We suppose it all depends on where you go. Most people accept Rabbit as the fourth sign, so there you go.

That means that Dog has no working knowledge of cats. Dragons yes; cats no.

She plops her butt onto the floor, looking very hangdog-y.

And for someone who tries to make everyone think she's not a real dog she sure is acting like one.

By whining.

"Is there anyone who can show me around?"

[mogget_cat]

Bright Shiners, no. Most likely.

The only problem is that Dog is reminding Yrael of his elder sister, Kibeth, who is the Disreputable Dog, or Dog, for short. Only, this Dog is not his sister, Dog.

He hisses, "Someone other than me."

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She has absolutely NO experience with Bright Shiners.

They don't visit her world as far as she can tell.

She whines at the hiss. This cat-creature is being decidedly NOT nice.

Not nice people are not good.

"Who then?" she says, attempting to play one of the Dog sign's many roles: peacemaker.

[mogget_cat]

Yrael points directly across the room, as far away from Bar as possible.

"Try him. He's nice," says Yrael, not really knowing or caring where he's pointing.

Upon being called not good, Yrael would totally agree. He isn't. He isn't evil, either. He's Yrael.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog whines. She's not too sure she should like the not!cat, but Dog is not the sort of person to give up easily.

Everyone's got some goodness in them!

"Are you sure?" she asks, turning her head to look in the indicated direction. "I don't see anything but a crowd of people and tables."

[mogget_cat]

"What you can see and what is there are not always the same thing, especially for dogs."

Yrael blinks slowly at her.

"Go... fetch, or whatever it is you people do."

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog Stares.

"I don't fetch..."

This cat is now going into the "not nice" category.

[mogget_cat]

Perhaps sheepdog commands?

"Away!" Yraels ears are slowly going down.

[loyal-dog.livejournal.com]

Dog whines.

And she thought Milliways was a nice place to be...

Wheel and Strength made it sound nice...

Those two are going to be engaged in a Very Long Talk once Dog finds them again.

"You're a bad kitty," Dog whimpers.

Then walks away.

There has to be nice people here somewhere...

[mogget_cat]

Yrael calls after the irritating Dog. "I am not a cat!"

"...stupid dog."