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Prompt 21: Alright, I guess..

A plate with fresh fish was placed down in front of her by a man pretending to be grumpy. By now she realized he wasn’t half the asshole he wanted her and Shadow to think he was. Tyranny looked over her meal of fish at the black cat across from her and pondered, not for the first time, exactly what happened when he lost that piece of ear but he wouldn’t tell her. Must have been pretty bad… They’d been thru some stuff together already though so maybe he would one day. As she licked fish off her whiskers she considered Alex again, eating there with Sanagi, making her smile. He’d brought Shadow home which had surprised her and while she had originally thought he would just take advantage of her person, he hadn’t. He’d even saved her life and the fish… was a regular thing.. And he’d jumped in the water after that… exuberant boy cat, too. Maybe he wasn’t terrible. She was sure this little group wasn’t a normal family but Sanagi really was the only one of them with parents so Tyranny supposed it seemed right she was the one who mothered them all.. and that in turn they fight tooth and claw for her. The kitten turned and gave a good last lick of the plate before going to run against Alex’s leg in final, grudging approval of the man. She was rewarded with a bit of a scratch… like she thought… pretend grumpy. Then the scratches stopped and the cursing started. She looked up to see that as usual Shadow had to ruin it. He’d taken her distraction as an opportunity to steal fish from his person’s plate. Boys.

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