Random Ferret Cuteness!
A bit of info
- Dante and Syn are the pet ferrets of the character Sypher
- Dante is a black male ferret, typically very playful and curious, very friendly and mildly, well.. derpy, for lack of a better word.
- Syn is a white female ferret and is her brother Dante's opposite, being more cautious than curious and her friendship is often harder to win compared to her brother.
==========================================================================================================
*** LOG STARTED AT Wed Nov 7 14:25:39 2012 ***
After the children had departed and Kitt had gone to do whatever it is she was doing, Mara curled back up in her chair with her bare feet tucked under her. She's reading her book again with her small glasses perched on her nose to help her read better. A plate of cookies that she had brought from home with her rests on the table next to her with a cup of hot tea. In one hand she holds a half eaten cookie and seems to nibble on it occasionally but her eyes never leave the book. < English>
Syn tests her Move_Silently against a 80 difficulty. The result is successful (21).
Dante tests his Move_Silently against a 80 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-14).
Newcomer! The curious little ferrets have been left to their devices on the ship for far too long apparently and now? Syn is slinking along, studying her in silence from afar. Dante however? while he does stealthily sneak along for a moment, he takes another approach.. That being, to leap up onto the back of the poor womans chair, stick his cute little wriggly ferret nose in her ear and give a curious little dooking noise. < English>
The nose in her ear make Mara freeze and turn her head like a victim in one of those horror movies. She is face to face with a ferret. She shrieks, jumps out of the chair while dropping the book and what's left of her cookie as she dashes across the room. Her face has gone ashen as she looks at the creature that caused her near heartattack. < English>
Syn tests her Hide against a 80 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-30).
Syn tests her Hide against a 110 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-57).
Dante just sits there, staring at the poor woman and cocks his head to the left, staring curiously with those little eyes. Syn meanwhile, seems content to stare in silence from her place, now not very far from the poor woman, and try to slowly slink behind something so to not make her hurt the little thing's ears again. Just her luck that the thing she went behind? was a glass someone had left out, that only seems to magnify her presence. < English>
Mara tests her Spot against a 30 difficulty. The result is successful (32).
The movement causes Mara to look that way and she gasps, jumping and muttering to herself. "They're multiplying." She does note the color differences between the two ferrets but seems so very wary of them. Those beedy little eyes just unsettling her entirely. "Wish someone had warned me." She takes a few deep breaths to contain her obvious fear about these small weird creatures. < English>
Syn peeks up above the rim of the glass, somehow believing that the transparent thing is hiding her and when she notices the woman looking at her? she crouches back down and wiggles her nose. Dante meanwhile, has curled up on the back of the womans vacant chair and is still watching her. Something to note as well, is that both of the creatures seem to have around their necks, a tiny collar with a simple metal plate lined up with the back of their heads. < English>
Mara really didn't want to get closer to the creatures but she takes a deep breath as she shuffles closer to the one behind the glass. The collar having drawn her attention. She just needs a closer look and then she won't go near them again, or this is what she keeps telling herself in her head. < English>
The plate is actually made of silver and engraved in it is a name. 'Syn'. The little thing looks a little confused on how the woman had seen her and when she gets close? the slinky little white weasel sits up on her back legs and holds out a paw, twiddling it in the air slightly. If only the critter could talk, eh? < English>
Startling slightly at the creatures movements, Mara reads the name on the plate. "Syn... Does that mean it's your name or your owners?" She is mildly confused as to the ferret twiddling it's paw in the air. She has no idea what to do with this creature but she has an idea to find out if the name on the plate is the ferret's name or the owner's name. So she makes her way back to the chair she had been sitting on to check the plate on this ferret. < English>
Another silver plate, this one reading 'Dante'. The silver on both plates, notably, has been kept in good condition, as have the mismatched leather collars (syn's being black and Dante's being white). It wouldn't be hard to guess by this that whoever these little things belong to must love them a great deal. When the woman approaches Dante though, he stands up and up onto his hind legs, then? leeeans towards the woman, sniffing at her a little, causing his little nose to wriggle. < English>
"Dante." Mara sighs, "Well, I know who you are but not who owns you." She jumps and gasps as Dante stands up and leans toward her. The nose wriggling just makes her shiver. She takes a deep breath and in an attempt to get over her fear of these weird creatures, she sorta pokes Dante's nose as she had no idea what to do with the ferrets. < English>
Skitter! poking a ferrets nose may result in weird and or cute behavior. Dante skitters up the womans arm like a bolt and sits on her shoulder, looking rather content with the new perch for however long it may last. If she doesn't immediately throw him off however, he'd give a quiet little dooking noise, sniff at her, then give her a little weasel kiss on the cheek. Lick! < English>
Terrified, the hair on the back of Mara's neck stands on end as the ferret skitters up her arm. She makes a rather scared noise deep in her throat and trembles as the ferret sits on her shoulder and licks her cheek. < English>
Well, Dante might be persistent but he knows when theres something wrong too. A moment or two after he licks her, he cocks his head to the side, then quickly jumps back down onto the chair and turns around, staring at her, looking quite confused. < English>
Breathing deeply as Dante jumps down, Mara collapses to the floor. "You aren't nearly as scary.... but you do scare me." She looks around as she takes off her glasses since she wasn't using them at the moment and set them on the table with the cookies. She picks up the cookie she had been eating from the floor and sighs. She looks at the ferret and then sets the cookie in front of the ferret. "At least it's peanut butter. I think it won't hurt you." She glances back over to where Syn was and wonders what that one is doing. < English>
Syn by now, has made her way towards the chair, leaving a few feet between herself and the poor woman Dante has been freaking out, still watching her curiously. Dante meanwhile, sniffs at the cookie, licks the edge of it and then finally takes a bite. It's at this moment the poor woman might realize just how 'frightening' these little critters are, as the moment he opens his mouth to bite? he winds up showing off the razor sharp teeth indicative of all carnivores. < English>
Mara looks at Dante warily, "Yeah, that's not reassuring in the least." She reaches up to the table for another cookie and breaks a peice off to set close to syn but not to close. She nibbles on the rest of the cookie she had picked up and takes the time to study the ferrets while they aren't 'attacking' her at all. She has to admit to herself that they do kind of look cute at a distance but they still make her nervous. < English>
Syn sniffs at the cookie bit and actually wrinkles her nose, then skitters away into the galley! Dante just watches the other ferret a moment, then happily goes back to munching his own cookie. < English>
Confused by Syn's reaction she picked up the bit of cookie and placed it next to the one Dante was already eating. "I guess you don't like peanut butter." She blinks and has to wonder if this place had made her crazy too. < English>
Syn skitters back a few moments later with a little black velvet pouch and skitters RIGHT up to Mara with it, drops it in front of her, then backs up a little ways. Dante watches the two, still happily munching. < English>
Tensing as the ferret skitters close to her, Mara looks at the pouch curiously as Syn backs away. She hesitantly pick up the pouch to open it wondering why the ferret brought it to her. < English>
Inside the pouch is some kind of jerky, preserved in the pouch from dust and fuzz by a leather inner-lining. When Mara opens the pouch, the two ferrets actually turn to watch her, Syn having already had her focus on the woman but Dante? he snaps to attention, not paying the cookie any mind now. < English>
Mara looks at the jerky and then the ferrets. She wonders and then pulls out a peice and watches the ferrets reaction. She wonders if their owner, who ever it may be, trained them to do tricks for treats since they seem rather smart for animals. < English>
Both of the creatures actually stare at the food, almost like they were begging. A keen ear might even hear a tiny stomach growling. After all, it's hard for carnivorous things to survive on a ship where the only living things could kill them in an instant if they tried to take a taste. < English>
Mara blinks at the ferrets obviously thinking the pets were well trained. So she tossed the jerky to Syn before pulling out another peice and lightly tossing it to Dante. "Yeah, you are cute at a distance but I don't know if I'll ever get used to you up close." And there she goes talking to the animals again. < English>
Syn nearly snaps the thing out of the air and starts in on it, Dante waits for it to land. The poor things must have been starving and in no time at all? the given food is gone. Each piece in the pouch is big enough to sate the little things for a while, probably their main food supply by the looks of it. < English>
Mara looks at the ferrets with sympathy, "Poor things, I wonder when the last time you were fed was." Her doctor's personality kicks in and her fear dissappears. She reaches up to dante to stroke a finger over the top of his head as if she were soothing a patient. < English>
Dante leans into Mara's hand, making a quiet little squeak. It's hard to tell what a creature is truly thinking but it'd be easy to guess that this little one's expression is rather sad when she pets him. < English>
Not thinking twice, Mara scoops up Dante into her arms and strokes his fur lightly. "Poor little dear." It would figure that the way to over come her mildy fear of rodent like creatures was to have one be near starving and sad. She looks at Syn and has no idea how to get the other ferret to come closer as she guesses Syn is like Dante. So she just tries holding out her hand to Syn. < English>
Nope, syn doesn't crawl up her arm but instead? slinks under the hand and hops up onto her lap and curls up, snuggling up to Mara. < English>
So with a ferret in her arm and a ferret in her lap, Mara smiles softly as she sets Dante in her lap too. With both hands free now she strokes and pets the ferrets and then she has a moment of insight. "I wonder if your owner is the one who was kidnapped. It would make sense with how hungry you both seemed to be and how sad Dante looks. Ah well, if you could understand me I'd tell you both that monsieur carmichael is going to rescue your owner soon but I suppose until then you need someone to look after you." She spares a moment and picks up the pouch to close it and set it nearby. "I suppose I can look after two ferrets that seem rather tame for the time being." < English>
Syn snuggles against the new doctor and Dante curls up in her arms. The two seem content for the moment, now that they've been fed and have someone to snuggle for a little while. Both of them actually seem to relax a bit more as well, when the woman mentions a rescue in the near future. < English>
Mara raises an eyebrow, "Perhaps you can understand me." She pets the ferrets and becomes increasingly curious about them but then thoughts that she was going crazy flitted through her mind. "I didn't even eat that weird little purple man's jello jiggly puffs...." Then she really realises how crazy that sounded. "Perhaps there is something in the air that just makes people peculiar." < English>
Weird little purple man, that seems to be a phrase that Syn knows and it causes her to pop her head up, look around, then scrunch a little closer to Mara and look up at her. < English>
Mara blinks at Syn and then pets the seemingly scared ferret. She's not entirely sure if the ferret is scared though, but either way she tries to comfort the little fuzzy creature. "He makes me nervous too. Only really met him once but I believe I went to a party he threw some years back. He's certainly an odd one." She smirks at her own odd behavior with these two fuzz balls and shakes her head, "You two are kindof cute and not nearly as terrifying as I thought." < English>
Dante gives a quiet squeak and licks at Mara's hand and Syn just curls back up with a wide yawn. Regardless of the teeth, the two balls of fluff probably wouldn't hurt a fly.. Well, maybe a fly but definitely not a person. < English>
Mara scoops up the book she had been reading and sets it on the arm of the chair, then she scoops up the ferrets as she gets up to sit in the chair where it's more comfortable. Settling in the chair, she puts the ferrets back in her lap and starts petting them both again as she picks up her glasses, puts them on and then picks up her book to start reading again. She had of course, forgotten to move the cookie peices and accidentally sat on them before she manages to pull them out from under her. She rolls her eyes and sets the broken cookies aside. < English>
*** LOG ENDED AT Wed Nov 7 16:53:41 2012 ***
