Covent Garden Flowers - Sunday

[mages_suck]

Once again gripped by the feeling he had somewhere to be, Leto wandered around the small area of the city he'd explored. He came to a stop by a flower shop. His hands went immediately onto his hips and he gave it a challenging look.

"Really?! You think I haven't heard every elf-and-plants joke there is? Why am I here, why do you want me to go inside?"

The door didn't answer.

Green eyes narrowed. He pressed his face to the glass and looked around. Nobody inside. An oh-so-casual glance up and down the street. No witnesses.

Out came the wires and then there was the tiniest of scoffs at how easy this lock was to pick.

Leto went inside and looked around. The plants were nice. Even the ones that didn't look expensive were still nice and looked healthy. He'd never admit he could tell the difference, but that was more from watching his mother and sister fret over their Master's flowers than from any mystical Elf mumbo-jumbo.

A tiny grey kitten came zooming out from the back and climbed him like he was a tree. The tiny little piton claws barely touched him and the next thing he knew, the kitten was in his ear with a buzzing little purr that tickled.

Leto squirmed and giggled helplessly for a moment. He gathered the kitten up in his hands so he could look at it. It.. it was kitten-shaped but something was off about it. Leto promptly decided he didn't care. "Do you live here? Are you why I'm here? Maybe.. maybe I was sent to rescue you!"

Leto, that spoiled, happy kittenwillow is in zero need of rescue.

Which even he had to acknowledge. He looked around. "Maybe rescue you from boredom. C'mon, kitty, let's find something to play with."

Tickles squirmed to escape the hands and paraded himself back up the arm to his usual perch on the shoulder with another happy kitten buzz.

"Hey!" Leto giggled, "That tickles!"

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[1000yearstoolate]

"You're not an adult," Seivarden said. "And she's not your cat."

Slight emphasis on 'she'.

[mages_suck]

"You aren't an adult either and you're definitely not the boss of me," Leto proclaimed, "I was here first, he ran up to me, he's mine until an adult shows up! So. There!"

Definite emphasis on the 'he'.

[1000yearstoolate]

"So you're stealing a kitten," Seivarden said, reaching out again for Tickles.

[mages_suck]

Leto'd had quite enough of that reaching and reached to push Seivarden's hands away. "Rescuing," he singsonged at her, "And yes. You're the one who keeps trying to steal him from me."

[1000yearstoolate]

"You're the one who's stealing!" Seivarden reached out to to push Leto. "I'm supposed to look after her!"

[mages_suck]

Leto took a few steps back on his own accord. "Yeah?" he accused, "Then you did a bad job at it! He was all alone yesterday because you couldn't even remember to show up! I'm not letting you have him. You might forget about him again!"

[1000yearstoolate]

"I didn't know I had to look after her!" Seivarden said, rolling her eyes. "You're stupid and don't listen."

To emphasise this she tried to push Leto again.

[mages_suck]

Yeah, this time he'd fight back and try for his own shove.

"So? You would've if you'd shown up, but you didn't and today, I'm here so he's my responsibility. You're stupid and don't know anything!"

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden had to take a step back, which meant she retaliated with a harder push.

"You're an uncivilised nobody!"

She wasn't allowed to call people uncivilised to their face.

[mages_suck]

"You're a stuck-up forgetful jerk who needs servants," Leto retorted, slapping hard at Seivarden's hands to avoid that push.

[1000yearstoolate]

"Ewwww!" Seivarden made a disgusted face. "Don't touch me, you're not wearing gloves."