I have a civil tongue in my head!

[princetheoden]

Theo: *chases his cat, who's chasing a raven screaming 'murder! murder!'* Dagnir, NO! *nearly falls over when they get into the park, skidding on the wet grass*

Celegorm: *is tossing a ball to Huan who fetches it with glee. Turns and notices the cat.* Oh no...Huan...

Huan: Woof! [CAT!]

Kak: *flies over Huan*

Dagnir: *runs beneath Huan's legs*

Huan: *chases*

Theo: *tries to stop himself before he runs into the dog and still skidding*

Huan: *flies after the cat*

Celegorm: *piches the bridge of his nose* oh geez. HUAN!! *notices Theo and laughs*

Kak: *up into Greentwig*

Dagnir: *follows*

Huan: *chases*

Greentwig: *suddenly starts flailing branches*


Theo: oh Eru

Huan: *stops short of the ent* Wooffff? [what is that? I'm not touching that.]

Celegorm: Huan. Here. NOW.

Greentwig: *sends a branch down in front of Huan hard*

Theo: o.o Dagnir!

Huan: *backs up and heads back to Celegorm*

Celegorm: What did I tell you about chasing strange cats? *eyes Theo* Your cat is strange, you know.

Theo: I think that's not his problem right now. *staring up at the tree*

Dagnir: *yowling inside*

Kak: *flies off to safety*

Celegorm: *turns to look at the ent* Good point. *eyes dagnir* [You need to climb down slowly before she throws you out like yesterday's garbage]

Dagnir: *has the good sense to listen to Celegorm and starts creeping out*

Theo: how do you do that? *wringing his hands, no idea how to get to his cat without making things worse*

Celegorm: I learned to speak to animals a long time ago. Orome taught me. It takes some time, but it's not too difficult.

Dagnir: *gets to the ground and makes a beeline for Theo*

Theo: *grabs up Dagnir and holds, backing far out of reach of Greentwig*

Greentwig: *settles down*

Theo: thanks *to Celegorm* Whatever you said got him out of there

Celegorm: *grins* Not a problem. You might want to keep a better eye on your cat, though. He doesn't seem to have much self discipline.

Theo: *rubs Dagnir's head* I try! He seems to get everywhere, even when I shut him inside.

Dagnir: *smug 'I can open windows' look*

Celegorm: *eyes Dagnir* My guess is that he's smarter than he looks. *to Dagnir* [You speak elvish, do you not? You understand everything he says to you.]

Dagnir: [of course. He doesn't need to know that]

Celegorm: *grins* Yeah...that cat is a handful.

Theo: it must be so interesting to talk to animals and understand them *keeps petting Dagnir, so glad he didn't become treefood*

Celegorm: You'd be surprised how much they understand. We're the ones who need to learn how to listen. *scratches Huan's ears*

Huan: Woof! [I'm hungry.]

Theo: I hope that's not him trying to get Dag

Celegorm: *ignores him*

Theo: He's not for you *to Huan* He's my friend

Celegorm: He won't eat him. Not right now, anyway.

Theo: and you! *holds up Dagnir in front of him* don't keep trying to kill all the animals! Especially ones that can talk!

Dagnir: mroooowl

Celegorm: He's a predator by nature. All cats are. If you don't keep them occupied and well fed, they will hunt. Dogs, too.

Theo: I feed him plenty. My house is filled with meat just for him *wrinkles his nose* It's the talking part.

Theo: I just worry he's going to eat a hobbit child

Dagnir: *would consider it*

Celegorm: Then you are doing all you can do. Maybe he's not meant to be kept as a pet. *gives Dagnir a look* In which case, he should probably be moving on.

Dagnir: ... *curls up against Theo's chest possessively*

Theo: No, I mean, he followed me home and stays with me...

Theo: He kind of nearly broke my window coming in and we thought a monster had arrived, because it was such a stormy night and he was soaked

Celegorm: *chuckles* Right, then. Keep him as long as he'll be kept, I guess.

Theo: that's my plan

Celegorm: But don't let him bite you. Cat mouths carry thousands of germs. If a cat bite gets infected...well, it's not fun.

Theo: don't bite me *firmly to Dagnir* I do know about cats. Well, not cats like Dagnir, but back home there were plenty of stable cats

Celegorm: That's no stable cat. Just...be careful. *gives Dangir a look* [Be nice to him and I won't out you.]

Dagnir: *licks Theo's chin*

Theo: He just looks vicious... *pets Dagnir* Again, thanks for helping me. Um. *holds out his hand* We sort of got off on the wrong foot. I'm sorry

Celegorm: *looks at the hand, then back at Theo, then decides to give it a tentative shake* Apology accepted.

Theo: you were right, anyway

Celegorm: Yes, I know I was. Father can be sort of...unpredictable, and the jewel belonged in our family.

Theo: *little nod* The captain explained to me the various ways I'd fucked up

Celegorm: *grins* The Captain is very smart.

Theo: he is! *brightens up, still has his little crush, not as strong as it was* I want to impress him. And unfortunately that means learning from my mistakes

Celegorm: I can't blame you there. He's someone worthy of impressing. And everyone can learn from mistakes. We all make them. It takes a bigger man to apologize, though.

Theo: I am pretty big for a human

Celegorm: *eyes him* Hmm. Maybe. I don't have a good frame of reference.

Theo: Humans are normally about six inches or more shorter than me. *helpful Theo*

Celegorm: *looks down at Theo* So that would make them about...18 inches shorter than me.

Theo: just about.

Dagnir: *getting bored, but not getting on the ground with that dog around and climbs up so he's draped over Theo's shoulders like a throw*

Celegorm: So still short. *is unimpressed* And weak.

Theo: we're not so bad. We do dominate the planet eventually. *scritches under Dagnir's chin*

Theo: your father seems to find us interesting. Even the frail part

Celegorm: Father finds lots of odd things interesting. I'm not surprised he'd be interested in humans. In fact, I'm betting he's considered getting one to keep in a cage or to dissect. He likes taking things apart to see how they work.

Theo: Yeah, I kinda got the vibe off him in the beginning, but I think he's going to leave me in one piece now

Celegorm: Oh...okay. *shrugs* If he does decide to dissect one, let me know.

Theo: I'll probably be arresting him

Celegorm: Right. I guess that's technically murder. *grins, teasing*

Theo: Turgon recently decided we count!

Celegorm: How very kind of him.

Theo: which is good. I didn't like being livestock

Theo: *straight face*

Theo: but it's better than dwarves, which were a type of squirrel

Celegorm: *snaps his fingers at Huan* We need to be going.

Theo: right, right. Have a good day

Celegorm: You, too. *Huan trots along behind Celegorm, ball in mouth*

I suppose he's not so bad. He kept looking at my cat funny, I hope he at least TRIES to keep his dog from eating Dagnir.