Kari Niven smiles, politely keeping her teeth covered.
Amyla Wakowski smiles. "Hi, Kari."
Kari Niven wrinkles her nose a little, "Someone got shot here on the porch recently. Do you know what happened?"
Amyla Wakowski: It was that Alliance woman. She, uh, said the wrong things, didn't leave... Nack gave her ample opportunity to get the hell away. But... well, she was stupid.
Kari Niven: Nackie told the person to go, and the person didn't go?
Kari Niven laughs, long and hard.
Amyla Wakowski: Yeah.
Kari Niven wipes a tear of mirth from her eye.
Kari Niven: Oh, goodie.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski: 'Course, we were ready to shoot her ourselves if she came back...
Kari Niven smiles again, 5 inch white fangs gleaming.
Kari Niven: People don't understand my brother. They think he's a sweetheart.
Kari Niven giggles again.
Kari Niven: People can be stupid.
Amyla Wakowski shakes her head a little. "Don't know why they keep underestimatin' him. *I* know he's hardcore—even if he can be the nicest guy in the 'Verse, you don't cross him. Yeah, people are foolish."
Kari Niven: Tarlek has buried... oh... dozen, maybe more, Alliance busybodies in just the last year that Nackie shot.
Kari Niven grins again.
Amyla Wakowski: They just don't seem to quit...
Kari Niven: Because they are fools.
Kari Niven: They won't leave us be, even after the hurt they did us.
Amyla Wakowski sighs.
Amyla Wakowski: Speakin' of Alliance annoyances... got this, uh, ex boyfriend, said he's gonna pop by. I plan on bein' extra-scarce when he does, God willing.
Kari Niven extends a razor sharp claw and picks between her fangs with it.
Kari Niven: Amyla want Kari should make an accident happen to him?
Amyla Wakowski: Ah, no... Chol's prepared to rough him up, though.
Kari Niven: Is no trouble at all, and easiest way to get rid of irritating ex's.
Kari Niven nods.
Kari Niven: Kari can put him in unmarked grave with the rest of them.
Amyla Wakowski: He can be a jerk, but... don't wish him dead. Not unless he gets... threatening.
Amyla Wakowski: I finally got 'round to wavin' him back an' warned him no matter who he works for, he starts trouble, he'll be on the wrong enda some bullets.
Kari Niven shrugs, "Kari is a simple girl, with simple solutions. Finds the complications of human life baffling sometimes."
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Amyla Wakowski: He ain't the worst sort. Just a bit... tetchy. An' we were just a bad combination.
Kari Niven: Have had ex's like that. Killed one of them, she got too "tetchy" as you say.
Kari Niven shrugs.
Kari Niven: Life is very hard for hoomans. :(
Kari Niven: Life is very simple for Kari. :)
Amyla Wakowski: Yeah... humans are all kindsa complicated.
Kari Niven giggles, "If it makes you happy, Kari understands."
Amyla Wakowski smiles.\
Kari Niven: Still, if you want this boy to disappear, you say to Kari.
Amyla Wakowski nods. "Will do."
Kari Niven: Kari have no problem getting him alone.
Kari Niven smiles innocently.
Amyla Wakowski: If he's smart, he'll come for the martinis and do no worse than get into a little manly tussle.
Amyla Wakowski: And he can be smart, when he wants to be.
Kari Niven nods, "Nackie won't shoot someone for bar fight. He'd have no business if he did."
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski giggles.
Kari Niven sighs sadly, "Been long time since Kari was in bar fight. People are so well behaved now. It's boring."
Amyla Wakowski: Yeah, figure we're due for some brawlin', next time some o' those Alliance servicemen take shore leave.
Kari Niven nods excitedly.
Kari Niven: That would be fun!
Kari Niven: Kari hurt one bad last time, Lauralai was mad.
Amyla Wakowski: Aw.
Kari Niven: So next time Kari will be more careful!
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski pouts a little. "Chol made me promise I won't get into any fights."
Kari Niven: What kind of male would do that??
Kari Niven looks horrified.
Amyla Wakowski: Well, we're gonna have a baby... he's bein' protective.
Kari Niven: But... Kari doesn't get. You still hunt and provide while carrying, males still lounge around and take the best of the hunt and sun themselves... what's that got to do with fighting?
Kari Niven sniffs, "Why Kari has no use for males. They are worthless. Except for making young."
Amyla Wakowski: Human males can be a little different. Some of 'em, anyway.
Kari Niven: Hmmmm. Maybe so. But still, seems to Kari they take the best of the hunt and still sit around while the females do the real work.
Kari Niven: That way in the bed too.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski chuckles.
Kari Niven stretches her long arms, fingerclaws snickting out then back in.
Amyla Wakowski: Guess I'm lucky, then. Chol's pretty fair in sharing the workload.
Kari Niven: Maybe Amyla is lucky then.
Kari Niven nods.
Kari Niven: Kari tried out a couple of human males.
Kari Niven sighs.
Amyla Wakowski: Oh, there's plenty of dissappointing ones. The majority, maybe.
Kari Niven: They not much different from mutant males.
Kari Niven sighs.
Kari Niven: But at least the lion males Kari has had were... energetic and had endurance.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski gigles.
Kari Niven sighs, "But, still, for Kari, seems they good for making young, and even at that they aren't really very good."
Kari Niven purrs and stretches, "Pride sisters much more fun."
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven looks sad.
Kari Niven: Miss my lion family. But Kari can't stay with them. Kari to different, why she came here when a cub and got caught by Nackie's family, stealing food.
Kari Niven: Amyla misses her family too.
Kari Niven nods.
Amyla Wakowski: Yes, I do.
Amyla Wakowski: But they're on Persephone... an' things bein' as they are, ain't easy to go back there. Might be hard gettin' back.
Amyla Wakowski: Would cause a whole mess o' trouble if I got stuck offworld.
Kari Niven: Kari wanted to go see other worlds.
Kari Niven sighs.
Kari Niven: But, mutants here, we scared of Alliance.
Kari Niven: There's none like us out there, so we hide here.
Amyla Wakowski: Yeah... I'm lucky, I look like a regular human.
Kari Niven: Can help, but also makes it hard.
Kari Niven: Kari can travel wastes, doesn't get hurt by radiotions as much.
Kari Niven: Kari sees her lion family now and then out there too.
Kari Niven makes a small smile.
Kari Niven: But for humans, is hard out there.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: amyla know how fast cheetah run?
Amyla Wakowski: Really-really-really fast?
Kari Niven giggles.
Kari Niven: Up to 65mph sprints.
Kari Niven: Eveyone knows cheetah fast, yes.
Kari Niven: Amyla know how fast girl lion run?
Kari Niven has a bright gleam in her green eyes.
Amyla Wakowski: Also really-really-really fast?
Kari Niven purrs, "Up to 55 mph. That is thing no one seems to know. And girl lion much much bigger and stronger than cheetah. When hit you at 55 mph, is making parts of you fly apart."
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski grins.
Kari Niven: So, Kari can't go to places on other worlds, but can do things here that need to be done and no one else does safely.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: Why Kari is in wastes so much. So little time here.
Kari Niven: Kari's 5 years of life spent most here, but now having to be in wastes mostly.
Kari Niven: You have young, Kari hopes it lives. Hooman's here loose 90% of them before born, makes everybody sad.
Kari Niven: If happens, keep trying. Nackie and Lauralai say need all babies.
Amyla Wakowski: Um, yeah. I hope so, too.
Amyla Wakowski: Still, 10% odds are better than none.
Kari Niven: Is.
Kari Niven: Then you hope young is born without things wrong, because that happens so much here too.
Kari Niven: It's the Alliance that did that to us.
Kari Niven: Is why we hate them.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Amyla Wakowski: I was here before the War. My pa got us offworld quick as he could went things got bad.
Amyla Wakowski: But not 'fore some things got dropped.
Amyla Wakowski: My mama and sister still got sickness.
Kari Niven: Nackie said things were green and there was farms all over.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: He showed me pictures.
Amyla Wakowski: My granddaddy had a farm.
Kari Niven: Kari has a hard time understanding farms.
Kari Niven shrugs.
Kari Niven: Making foods come out of the dirt seems silly.
Kari Niven: Just go kill it and eat it. Is easier.
Amyla Wakowski: Sometimes. Depends on the place. Depends on how many need to eat.
Kari Niven: All the green is dangerous though. Kari doesn't see how people feel safe like that.
Amyla Wakowski: I may be human, but I don't understand 'em a lotta the time, either.
Kari Niven: Is it true on other places the green isn't deadly spots?
Kari Niven sighs.
Amyla Wakowski: Oh, yes.
Kari Niven: Kari will never understand other places.
Kari Niven: Here, you in wastes, you see green growing, you go other way.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: Things at green places will eat you before you can eat them.
Kari Niven: Kari's seen a few. Not many. Very dangerous.
Amyla Wakowski: Green used to be a good color, a long time ago. Green that Alliance chemicals and bombs make, though, that's bad.
Kari Niven: In wastes, green is color of death.
Amyla Wakowski nods sadly.
Kari Niven: There is green, there is plants and water.
Kari Niven: There are plants and water, there are things that will eat you fast.
Kari Niven: You run from places like that, Amyla, you see them.
Amyla Wakowski: I will.
Kari Niven: Even slow hooman run, do.
Amyla Wakowski: Don't plan on goin' into the wastes, but what I plan and what takes plan ain't always exactly been similar.
Amyla Wakowski: *what takes place
Kari Niven: Kari knows how that is!
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski must afk for food, brb
Kari Niven nods, leans back on couch.
Amyla Wakowski is back.
Kari Niven flicks her ears up.
Kari Niven: Is good place to relax.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven inhales deeply, "No scent of Reavers or anything today."
Amyla Wakowski: Heard we mighta got the last of 'em for now.
Kari Niven: kari is sure of it.
Amyla Wakowski: Good.
Kari Niven: Kari scouted wreck when happened, sure all are dead now.
Amyla Wakowski: Those were especially ... persistent.
Kari Niven: They are broken in their heads.
Amyla Wakowski: Thought they were gonna get me that one night, when I was in The Cup. And that door is thick and tough!
Kari Niven: Amyla shoots them if they come. Is better to shoot them fast.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Amyla Wakowski: I try.
Amyla Wakowski: Everybody tells me I should hide, though, instead of fight.
Kari Niven: Kari can't use gun, but doesn't like them anyway.
Kari Niven: Huh.
Kari Niven: Hide.
Kari Niven: Hide is no good most times.
Kari Niven: Kill is better.
Kari Niven giggles, "Kari hid when cub, stealing food. Didn't work."
Kari Niven: Kari was lucky Nackie's family took her in though.
Amyla Wakowski: Everyone tells me what to do. Because they care, I guess. Gets tiresome, though.
Kari Niven: Tell them to fuck off.
Kari Niven nods.
Kari Niven: That's what Kari does.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski giggles.
Kari Niven: Nackie used to try to protect Kari.
Kari Niven: When Kari was two years, Nackie came to protect Kari when the old Shepherd tried to force himself on Kari.
Kari Niven giggles at the memory.
Amyla Wakowski: Oh my.
Kari Niven: Saw Kari tear stupid old man's heart of of chest and bite into it.
Amyla Wakowski: Good move.
Kari Niven: Nackie got mad because Kari's not to eat peoples, but he deserved.
Kari Niven: Nackie stopped trying to protect Kari then.
Kari Niven purrs at the happy memory.
Amyla Wakowski nods emphatically. "People like that deserve that."
Kari Niven: New Shepherd is nicer. Kari hopes she doesn't have to eat his heart too.
Kari Niven: New Shepherd says Kari has soul, old Shepherd said Kari was animal.
Amyla Wakowski: Yes... Shepherd Nieuport seems decent.
Kari Niven: Is Kari's Blueberry well?
Kari Niven: Kari hasn't seen him as much lately.
Amyla Wakowski: Oh, he worries on things. A lot. As usual.
Kari Niven: Kari always thought that a silly thing to do.
Amyla Wakowski: He says I trust people too easy, think some of the people we know.... that we don't know 'em so well as we thought, an' they could make trouble for us.
Amyla Wakowski: I don't wanna worry so much.
Kari Niven: Hmmm.
Kari Niven: Blueberry worries too much.
Amyla Wakowski: Yes. he does.
Kari Niven: Kari loves Blueberry though.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: And is glad he has mate now.
Kari Niven nods.
Amyla Wakowski blushes a little.
Kari Niven: Hoomans like lions, they need family.
Amyla Wakowski: Yes.
Kari Niven: Amyla know lions only cat with socials.
Kari Niven nods.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: Hard for Kari to spend so much time alone in wastes, but must be done.
Kari Niven: Tarlek can't do all hunting and scavenging.
Kari Niven: He's drunk too much.
Amyla Wakowski: And it's a big job.
Kari Niven: He finds such gfood stuff too. Tells Nackie where to go to get parts for stuff.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Kari Niven: Kari can't find stuff as good, but kills dangers better than Tarlek.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski smiles.
Kari Niven: Kari thinks Tarlek will get eaten some day.
Kari Niven nods.
Kari Niven: He drinks too much out in wastes.
Amyla Wakowski: So I've heard...
Kari Niven: He's broken in the head too.
Amyla Wakowski nods.
Amyla Wakowski: A lot of us are...
Kari Niven: Mrrr. Most are just hooman, and most hooman's kind of broken in the head.
Kari Niven giggles.
Amyla Wakowski chuckles. "True enough."
Kari Niven: Kari must hunt! Bye, Amyla. Nack says Kari is always to say bye, though Kari doesn't get that.
Amyla Wakowski: Bye.,.. I'll see you when I see you.
Kari Niven waves happily and bounds off.
