The Bored (open!)

It was true enough that he'd been warned away from revealing himself to the other people on the Hyperion... but, ultimately, he couldn't avoid it forever. He'd already met Cat and JD, only for them to try and keep him off the ship, and then Amoura just the following day, who'd so much as let him stay with her, even taught him more of the language as he was starting to teach her his own (bizarre though that 'written' form still felt to him). And he'd seen... a little more of the Hyperion's interior on the way.

Not just enough, mind.

Fully aware that Amoura, or Cat or JD if they found out, would likely be less than pleased with such a thing, Kai strayed out of his present teacher's room nonetheless, to go... somewhere. Hopefully somewhere where there was food, he mused. It was fine that she was bringing some back, but he couldn't be satisfied with just that forever. He was an independent creature, living largely by his own power for most of his life. He could handle himself even in this odd place, surely!

The only issue was, despite the (rather uncomfortable for him) hat atop his head, squishing his ears there and dulling his otherwise quite good hearing, and the white lab coat he was wearing, he wasn't exactly... inconspicuous to anyone that looked. What was more, he'd not the first clue where he was even going, though if nothing else, he was confident he could at least remember the way back. Granted, he was also confident he could go through these odd, frustratingly constrained pathways with his nose and ears letting him avoid anyone that might be around, but that... didn't always work out, exactly. Mostly, in the fact that he seemed to have come upon someone laying on the floor. That... couldn't be comfortable, he was certain. Even many of the harder patches of ground outside were better than this particularly solid surface.

Well then... hm... if that was the case, maybe she wouldn't notice him going by? On that (overly optimistic) thought, the fox man made to walk silently as could be past the woman, somewhat hoping she wouldn't think much of it, wouldn't look up to see his very distinctly non-human face...

...while missing the fact that his just as distinctly non-human, furred feet weren't covered, and from her vantage point, she'd likely be able to see that quite easily.

Nobody ever said Kai could think things through very well.

His ears might almost have twitched under that hat, if it wasn't so constraining for him, as they barely managed to pick up... something. Behind him? He hoped not, else he'd probably be in some trouble if Cat, JD, or especially Amoura who he was presently staying with found out. Perhaps to the side, or somewhere along those lines? Yes, that would... be preferable. Maybe. Depended on what other mysterious things were hiding in this 'Hyperion' that he didn't know about, like the 'computers' and the 'cameras' and the strange little things that controlled the light in an area.

But no, apparently he was not to be so lucky. The sudden call from behind him could be for nobody but him, if his nose was right in its assertion that there was nobody in the immediate area save himself and this female. So the fox man visibly twitched as his ears picked up that call, his feet coming to a pause as he at least tried to work out what to do in such a situation. She didn't... seem unfriendly, yet? She did tug on the white thing he was wearing then suddenly jumped back, mind, but that was hardly an act of aggression... or if it was, it was none that he was familiar with.

"Uh... er... I'm..." Kai began to speak, seemingly trying to work out what to say before he apparently gave up for the moment and glanced thoughtfully up to the ceiling... or, more accurately, the brim of the hat that was in the way of such a view. "Erm... I'm a friend?" he settled for after a moment or two of (rather ineffectual) thought, casting his dark-green-eyed gaze back down to the female nearby with, indeed, a friendly grin etched on his face. And, more to the point, an apparent grasp of the English language, despite very obviously being fairly far from human. Though, sadly, it was all he could think of to really offer at the moment, besides the removal of his hat for now such that his vulpine ears atop his head could be free of it; he'd already been caught, after all, so what further purpose did the thing serve right now besides being an annoyance?

When the female repeated the word friend, the fox man gave a little nod in affirmation. And he couldn't help but notice now she was speaking more that she spoke... a bit oddly. A certain, different twinge as compared to the three humans he'd yet met since the Hyperion had come down from the sky. It was... interesting, suffice it to say, though perhaps that itself wasn't saying much since everything here was of varying interest to him...

"Er... what's a... 'gun point'?" he curiously inquired, his head tilting slightly to the side. It wasn't his fault that everything here was so new to him, really; his was a very primitive kind, after all. It was just inevitable. Whatever was the case, though, he didn't seem to linger on the thought for long, instead glancing around, and even sniffing around a little, curiously.

"Well, er... I'm... looking around? Trying to find food right now... but a friend let me stay, so I have a home here and outside now so she can teach me 'English' and 'writing' and I can teach her my words, and help with outside," Kai explained with a cheerful grin. "Oh! And I'm Kai. Your name...?"[/b] he asked since he thought of it, his dark green eyes returning to the woman nearby after finding... well, nothing in particular that he could make out in these pathways, unsurprising as that was.

'Cait'? Cat and now Cait. Hm. That might get slightly confusing. Well... he'd probably be fine, anyway. It couldn't be that hard to remember two fairly similar names... right?

"Er... what should I do, then?" he asked, scratching a little at the back of his head. He'd already made it this far... thanks to his present, small list of friends, mind... so he couldn't very well turn back now. Not now that there was nowhere in particular to turn back to... save maybe back to where Amoura was having him stay. Though it would be rather a waste to go back there without any food.

"I'm not gonna hurt anything... but... if I shouldn't go there, we could go outside? There's lots of food out there, and you people don't know much about it yet, right?" he suggested with a cheerful grin, seeming to make a small move toward somewhere before pausing thoughtfully. "Though I... don't know which way to go..." he admitted, glancing uselessly back and forth down the hallway as if trying to figure out precisely that. "But... my friend said I could stay if I taught my words and about outside, so it's alright, right?" he concluded, his cheerful grin easily returning.

'Edible'? That... probably had to do with which food was good for eating, surely; he couldn't think of any other options for a meaning to that word (insofar as he wasn't thinking very far, especially not now there was food involved). Still, as the female motioned for him to follow, the fox man gave a little nod... and, much as he rather disliked the thing, slipped that had back atop his head. As if it would make much difference, but he wasn't exactly the brightest creature around as it was.

Smart enough to still be steadily breaching the language gap, at least. Something he rather doubted his kin would bother with, considering their 'fight or flee' mentality.

"I guess... they have seemed to want me to stay away from other people, so I've been quiet about everything," he offered with a little shrug. "They helped teach me a lot of the language, though, even this 'writing' thing, so... it couldn't be so bad if I can talk with people, right?" he (unerringly optimistically) suggested, a friendly grin once again emerging on his face just as easily as ever.

"Still, should be kinda nice to look around outside again since it's been a little while; there's all kinds of things to eat, so it should be easy to get food," he assured, blinking once as he realized he'd passed over the first question. "Oh right, how I got here... one of my friends let me in the first time hidden on this... moving thing that she moved around. Then I just hid and followed them back in when they said I should go outside," he explained. "Which... are we very far from outside? This place is strange, so I can't tell..."

If he could actually have understood everything the female had just said... but ah well, all things in time. He was still learning, after all; it would come in time, at least. If nothing else, he got the general gist that, like others had already told him, he probably shouldn't just casually show himself to anyone and everyone.

Shouldn't, but it was likely enough that he still would anyway. That was just how he was; someone without any due sense of caution most of the time.

"Mm... I guess. I'll probably figure it out soon. If not, I can still just follow my nose anyway," Kai offered with a little grin. Outside, though... it had been a few days, and it was even... night? Hm... really did lose good track of time stuck inside for a few days, it seemed.

"Come on, then; there's food and water and stuff this way. Just... careful for stuff that might come after you. Few things around at night, can be... er... danger? Whatever the word is..." he spoke, shrugging off his minor confusion soon enough before leading the way off to the side and away from the Hyperion. Occasional, small sounds cut through the silence of night, but the fox man stayed close to Cait, just in case. The place would be unfamiliar to her, after all; had to make sure she didn't get lost or anything like that, as he occasionally had in her territory of sorts; that was, the Hyperion's interior.

"Oh, and was there... anything you wanted to see?" he asked, as something of a minor afterthought, glancing back to Cait herself. Possibly should have warned her about a few things likely nearby, at that, but he wasn't exactly very aware that his senses were a fair bit better than theirs. Another thing he'd have to figure out, in time.

'Edible'? Er... 'eat able', maybe? It... made some sense to him, at least, so Kai decided to simply go with it; rather that than merely lose himself in confusion regarding this language radically different to his own again. No, he'd been specifically learning the language, surely he wasn't allowed to fail too much at it.

"Hm... like... well, not this," he idly spoke, scratching a little at the back of his head as his eyes turned to the closest sign of possible food that his nose picked up, that of a bush of seeming berries... only to find something that really hadn't been so good when he'd tried it. Maybe it would be different for these people... but so far, they seemed quite able to eat the same things, by his observations. Well, alright, he'd gotten a little sick once while eating their variety of food, but only once. "Well... that is. It isn't hard to... er... make it ready to eat either," he somewhat awkwardly spoke, lacking any wordage for 'kill' or even 'bring down' in his present, still slightly limited dictionary. Regardless, on that, he gave a little nod to a creature he could catch at least some sight of through the trees a little ways away, seemingly dozing. White fur, a bit larger than him in terms of overall mass, and not looking too similar to creatures on Earth... perhaps a little less so even than Kai himself, with his fairly vulpine appearance.

"So, uh... maybe sneak up and use... whatever that thing is? Or does it do something different?" he curiously inquired, his eyes turning to Cait's dagger. Considering what he'd seen of these people's... stuff so far, for all he knew it did something he wouldn't expect.