The Park, Sunday Morning

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden wasn't disappointed that no child had showed up for her. Obviously. That was nothing to be upset about. She had just spent last night watching Rachaai entertainments and feeling miserable for no particular reason.

This morning she had taken Issa to the park, because the cat needed to get out of the apartment. Or Seivarden did. Either or both. Now Issa was looking down at Seivarden from a branch.

"Please, come down. You don't want to climb any higher."

[Open.]

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[eensy_weensy_spider]

"Hey, mister!" Gabi waved at Seivarden from her perch in another tree. "Want me to get her down?"

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden was about to ask why she thought she needed help, but looking from Issa to the child and back, well...

"You're good at climbing trees?"

That was a stupid question.

"Looks like you are. You're welcome to help if you like."

Did Issa like children? Seivarden didn't know. She couldn't help being a bit concerned about the child, though.

"Do your parents let you play here all by yourself?"

[eensy_weensy_spider]

Gabi shrugged at that question with the attention it deserved, then jumped and climbed from her tree to the next one until she got to the one the cat was in.

"Here, kitty!"

[1000yearstoolate]

Oh. She was good at climbing trees. Seivarden found herself gaping.

Issa looked at the child, a little suspicious.

[eensy_weensy_spider]

"Come on, kitty," Gabi coaxed. "You don't want to stay in the tree all day!" She held out her hand and wiggled her fingers, coaxing her.

[1000yearstoolate]

Issa wasn't sure. Should she stay all day in the tree or should she let the child help her. She didn't know the child.

Her human on the ground was encouraging her though.

"Please, Issa, she just wants to help."

Seivarden assumed. She hoped this wasn't a cat-eating child.

[eensy_weensy_spider]

Gabi would never eat a cat!

She sat down on the other end of the branch and tried to inch her way a little closer without spooking her, still holding her hand out.

"C'mon, Issa, I can get you back to your person!"

[1000yearstoolate]

Taking a few careful steps forward, Issa sniffed the child's face, then climbed up into her lap.

"Oh, good," Seivarden said with a sigh of relief.

"Are you able to get down from there?"

She expected the answer was yes.

[eensy_weensy_spider]

Gabi nodded decisively. "It's not that far for a person!"

Well, maybe a little, but she wasn't showing off, really, she was just being a superhero!

"Hold on, Issa." She wrapped her arms around the cat carefully, holding her tight, and then quickly jumped down.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden almost reached out to try and catch her, but with both the child and the cat that might end badly. When they were on the ground, she reached out her arms.

"Here, let me take her."

Issa wiggled however, just wanting to get down on the ground.

[eensy_weensy_spider]

Gabi did her best to hold Issa out but she was wiggly! And ended up just thumping to the ground and then walking to Seivarden on her own.

"She's pretty," Gabi said, squatting down to see if she could coax her back for petting.

[1000yearstoolate]

Issa sat down somewhere between them and began to lick a paw.

Seivarden smiled at the child. "Thank you. You really are good at climbing."

[eensy_weensy_spider]

"I like climbing," Gabi said. She sighed at the cat. But it was a cat, what could you do? She giggled. "I'm better than Issa at getting down, too!"

[1000yearstoolate]

"You are," Seivarden agreed, reaching out to scratch Issa. "Are you on you own? Lost?"

[Seivarden will help her if you want her to.]

[eensy_weensy_spider]

"That's okay," Gabi said. He seemed okay, but she probably shouldn't trust strange people.

She gave up trying to entice the cat over and stood. "I'm gonna go find my parents."

Wherever they were. Or maybe she'd just try and find some food. Either would be good.


[Nah, that's okay! She's good, but thanks!]

[1000yearstoolate]

"They probably miss you."

Or maybe they didn't know she was here. Seivarden scooped Issa up in her arms.

"We're going home," she said. "That's enough climbing for today."

[eensy_weensy_spider]

"Bye!" Gabi waved and ran off toward the town. If she couldn't find her parents there, there would probably be something interesting.