[Larenti enjoying some time with me during an unusually cool evening; I’ve already decided that, once finances support it, I’ll be adopting this marvelous yet still weary feline; I so despise her evident fear of humans, especially hands, and especially when they unexpectedly move near her face; no matter when I leave Dallas, she’ll be coming with me]
[Vazra]
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
— William Blake
[Kazon]
Ne’er has there been, nor ever will there be, a more inquisitive creature than a feline. But curiosity rests not at the pinnacle of this trait, although it likely represents a vast majority.
How often I comprehend from just a look the inquiry hiding behind the predator’s eyes. How easily I discern from a simple meow the probing to which I submit myself. How cunning the interrogator as they manipulate me at depths I ne’er before comprehended.
A treat, you say? Throw the ball? Pet you until your purring rumbles the furniture about the room?
These things and a great many other clear requests—sometimes demands—flow through the air betwixt cat and me as easily as water streams between riparian grounds. By look or voice, or both, questions stream forth clear as the typed word.
And I answer, for it is mine to do so… my obligation, my right, my joy.
Could—would—any other be so inclined or capable?
[Loki]
