What's this...? [Catrina] (Closed)

Catrina watched as he stood. Nope. There was no way she was letting go of this branch. He made motion to the land and view but it wasn’t happening. She couldn’t let go. His eyes dropped to her camera. Oh yea, pictures. Crap she couldn’t let go to even do that.

Kai dropped beside her and placed an arm around her waist. “Oh no. No no no!” She said at first but he lifted her to her feet and she didn’t resist. And oh was she glad she didn’t. From a standing view point you could see the ocean. “Oh my….”

The view was outstanding. Both her hands were clutching to Kai’s arm as she stood on the branch. Slowly and steadily she released one hand and moved for her camera. Once there she brought it up to eye level. Now for the other hand… slow and steady. “Don’t let me go, okay. Don’t drop me.” She said softly pushing his arm into her hips hoping he got the idea not to let go.

With that she let go and brought her hand up to rest on the button of the camera. click click click The shutter clicked as it took picture after picture. Her breathing was still labored but it was getting easier to breath now. The sun was over head as it was midday now and you could see bird like creatures flying from the tree tops.

"Friend... Cat... beautiful?"

Cat instantly blushed. Had he just called her beautiful… no no he doesn’t understand what he’s saying. She smiled still hid behind the camera. She didn’t know how to reply to that. She lowered the camera after a few more shots and turned to look at him. One hand dropped down to his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. “Yes. Friend.” She smiled brightly accepting the compliment.

Cat smiled as she watched Kai’s ears perk up. The creature that landed on his head was a tiny bright colored bird like thing. Her smile widened at this. It was cute, hopefully it had no plans of eating her. But there was no time to worry about that. She watched Kai’s eyes gaze up at the small thing. “Slykk” He said.

Was he talking about the bird thing…? Her face puzzled up a bit as she slowly tried to recreate the word, “Sss-sly- slykk? Slykk?” She said aloud, the word feeling funny on her tongue, it wasn’t a word she knew and it didn’t flow from her mouth easily.

He said something else and then he released the tree. She didn’t notice at first that was until he took her hand. “Oh!” she exclaimed a little started. He brought her hand up to the critter suggesting she touch it she guessed?

“Okay, sure…” She whispered a little unsure of herself.

With just a fingertip she gently touched the top of the birds head letting her finger trace along its back. With a smile she reached back to his head with two fingers this time. The avian creature let out a little chirp of acceptance allowing her to pet it.

“Its so cute…”

She remembered her camera with a happy little squeak. “Don’t move!”

The camera moved up to her eye level slowly as she petitioned her finger on the button. Click Got it. click click click He laid into the button letting it rapid fire so she was sure to get atleast one or two good pictures before it would fly away. “Perfect…”

"Now... a fun part. It might even follow us, they do that sometimes,” None of this made sense to her, it just sounded like jibberish. But he smiled cheerfully and gazed up at the bird so he must have been talking about it. It would have been nice to understand so maybe she could learn about it, but oh well, they were making due rather well for the barriers.

Cat watched as he gazed down towards the ground. What was he thinking? Was it time to start the climb down. She sighed audibility she wasn’t sure she could make it back down. She would have to forever live in this tree. Sleep, eat and live here. Her camera had returned to her chest just as he knelt down and moved his arm to her shoulders. A gasp escaped her lips as he swooped her up.

Uh-oh where was this going, this couldn’t be good. Was he going to throw her down from the tree!? Her arms wrapped around his neck tighter than they probably should have but she was suddenly terrified and worried for her life. It was all a trick! He was lulling her into a false sense of security. It was over she was dead, she just knew it.

A scream – That was all the could be heard on her way down. She buried her face into him hoping it would all end soon. And it did. Before she knew it they were on the ground again. Her screaming stopped and now she just breathed heavily. ‘Okay’ she heard. She shook her head approvingly… “Okay.” she repeated.

The jibberish that came from his next made no sense but the last word. He had said Hyperion, or at least she thought he had said that. “The Hyperion? My ship?” She watched as he gazed off into the distance. Just then the little bird returned to his head. A giggle escaped her as she reached up to cover her mouth, letting Kai go for a moment.

“So you want to see my home? My ship?” She questioned uselessly as if she excepted to get an answer.

Was this a good idea? He had shown her so much, wouldn’t it make sense to share some of her experiences with him. But what if someone else saw him, how would they react, could she assure him that he was safe and not there to harm him? She didn’t want him to get hurt either. Maybe she could sneak him in. At least show him to her room.

“Okay… but,” she started as she climbed up off of him, “We have to be careful. Careful.” She said as she brushed herself off and lowered a hand down to help him up, trying hard to be polite.

Catrina giggled softly as she watched the bird return to Kai’s head. Funny little creature it was. Her attention was pulled away from the Slykk when the fox creature took her hand. He did most the work but she pulled on him anyways in an attempt to help him up. Once he was on his feet he kept grasp of her hand. Her first reaction was to pull away but she didn’t. Instead she allowed him to lead her away.

Once they arrived close to the ship Kai stopped. Cat could see the Hyperion through the brush. There were a few people out and about but most were busy with their own work. Next was the challenging part, she had to find a way to sneak this critter into the ship without being seen. Suddenly an idea popped into her head. She took her hand from his and put it up in the ‘stay’ motion they had established. “I have an idea!” She whispered rather loudly, “Don’t move, you have to stay here.”

With that off Cat went. She sprinted towards the ships opening and soon disappeared inside. A good bit of time passed, fifteen minutes or so (give or take). No one bothered her on the way in and now she was pushing a cart out with three boxes stacked on it and a folded blanket on the end. There was enough room for someone to sit on the cart beside the boxes. She wheeled the cart to the brush where she had left Kai. “Kai! Kai!” She shouted for him.

Kai appeared from the brush. She could see the confused look on his face. She assumed he was asking about the cart so she proceeded to try and explain. “It’s a cart. I’m going to push you inside under a blanket.” She said picked up the folded black fleece blanket.

“Here look. Watch me.” She said pointing to herself.

Next Cat stepped around the cart and climbed up on top of it. She sat down propping her back against the boxes and pulled her knees up to her chest so that both feet now rested just a few inches from her bottom. She proceeded to wrap her arms around her legs and pull them even closer.

“See you have to do this, okay?” With that the red head stood back up. She pointed to Kai and then to the cart. “Go on. Your turn.” She stepped closer to him and gave him a soft nudge towards the thing. Once he was settled she would drape the blanket over him making sure to cover all of him so nothing stuck out.