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Chad looked for a moment at all the kittens, finding it difficult to formulate any actual thoughts beyond omg so cute. Kawaii even. Prince Oscar Pedro seemed to lord over the kittens quite easily, perched all the way up on Chad's shoulder but still attempting to sniff them out.

Finally, Chad managed to come up with a very helpful observation.

"There's a lot of them."

Well, that was what he thought.

Dinah grinned, and carefully picked a couple out, holding them up for inspection. The one in her left hand started licking her thumb, the one in her right batted at her hair. "Remind me that we can't take all of them?" she said wistfully.

Remind her? Chad practically had to remind himself.

Thankfully, it would seem that Prince Oscar Pedro had no problem reminding the both of them, letting out a long, objective sort of meow. Chad shifted, lifting him up off his shoulder and setting him down. Maybe he could sniff out a good one for them. He certainly looked ready to try.

"This'll be hard."

"Yeaaaaah," Dinah said sadly, putting down the bitey one, and cuddling the playful one for a second, before it got distracted and she had to let it go too.

Some of the kittens were bouncing around and ignoring Prince Oscar Pedro. Some of them were actively avoiding him.

"Okay. Right. Girl kitten, I said I wanted a girl," Dinah reminded herself. Then frowned. "Can you even tell when they're this little? They're all... fuzzy."

Dinah did have a good point right there; and Chad would feel just awkward going and trying to narrow it down.

"The employees probably know; we can ask one when narrow it down a little."

Dinah waved to one of the employees hopefully, and after a minute, the guy came over. "Need some help?"

"Could you tell me, which ones are girls?" Dinah asked, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "We, uh." She turned pink. "Can't tell."

He laughed, and started pointing. "The two chocolate-point Siamese. The blue point there, washing her back. The two Birmans. Aaaand this lilac-point," he pointed at a little kitten staring at Prince Oscar Pedro.

"Mmrrrrrrr."

Prince Oscar Pedro was eying the little lilac-point back, waiting to see if it would do something so he could decide if she was worthy enough, although he did have to admit she was kind of cute. No Yei, or anything, but not bad.

"I think they like each other," Chad noted. Chad might have possibly have already imagined them being best friends forever in his head in the span of about three seconds.

"Ooooo, do you think?"

The lilac point was sniffing Prince Oscar Pedro's breath, inquisitively, whiskers quivering. She stepped back a bit, then leaned forward, tilting her head until it was almost upside down to look up at him.

Prince Oscar Pedro tilted his head back, looking puzzled, maybe.

Dinah started giggling, and the lilac-point turned at the sound and shot her an offended look.

Despite himself, with the combination of upside-down heads, giggling roommates, and offended looks, Chad had to grin just a little.

"She is cute," he had to admit.

"She really is," Dinah said, leaning over, and her voice going sing-song. "Hiiiiii pretty kitty. I'm Dinah."

Pretty kitty did the head-tilt-upside-down thing, then padded forward. "Mew," she said imperiously. "Mrrrrrrrrrrr."

"Awwwww!"

"And that's the lilac-point?" Chad asked. "They're kind of rare, aren't they?"

"They're rarer than the seal-point or chocolate-points, yeah. They're a paler version of the chocolate," the sales guy said. "And this one might be a Balinese mix, her fur's a little thicker." He grinned as the kitten rubbed her face against Dinah's fingers. "Let me know what you decide."

The new kitten was now balancing precariously on her hind legs, front paws tapping Dinah's fingers with great concentration. "Mrrr. Meeeeee. Mrrrrrr."

Prince Oscar Pedro wandered over again, clearly trying to make up his mind. The kitten kept batting at Dinah's fingers, but turned her head toward him, her eyes narrowing. "Mrrrr?"

That would be the point where Prince Oscar Pedro, after circling the kitten thoughtfully, then settled down at Chad's feet. His tail swished back and forth on the floor, flopping. It started catching the attention of some of the other kitten in the area, but he seemed only concerned with how the lilac-point intended to respond, if at all.

The new kitten gave Dinah a 'wait right here' look, then loped over to follow Prince Oscar Pedro. She circled him a couple times, then settled in on her back haunches, staring at his tail.

Staring.

Staaaaaaring.

Sta-- then she tried to pounce.

Prince Oscar Pedro had been afraid of that. Still, with a little meow as he tried to flick his hairless tail out of the way of the kitten's pounce, he was purring.

The purring always gave him away.

The kitten went tumbling head-over-paws, and landed on her back, blinking in surprise. Then she meowed piteously.

"Awww! Oh, poor little thing, was that a bad surprise?" Dinah reached over to pick her up and cuddle her close.

The kitten immediately went even more limp, closed her eyes, and purred like a baby race car. She might have almost looked... smug.

If Dinah hadn't gotten to the kitten first, Chad probably would have, so Chad was glad Dinah got there first because this left him looking a little less silly.

"She's not a bad one," he decided.

"This one, definitely this one... oh, now you want down?" Dinah laughed, as the kitten started to squirm, and then did a little flip-move out of her arms to start stalking Prince Oscar Pedro again. "Well, they seem to get along okay. Or at least he doesn't mind her, so...."

Prince Oscar Pedro supposed he could let the kitten stalk him. He got up and walked around the room importantly, occasionally checking to see if she was.

"We'll just have to wait until Teddy and Galliano get here to see what they thing."

Picking out a cat was a very invovled process.

The kitten kept determinedly stalking, albeit not quite catching Prince Oscar Pedro, with a little detour to check in on Dinah and make sure she was watching her stalk. Then she went back to her hunting. With a detour to stare up at Chad, blue eyes wide.

"I hope they like her. And she likes them. They're going to be in such close quarters most of the time."

I flustered Teddy came in not too long after she said that, trying very hard to keep a hold on Galliano. It was like keeping a hold of a greased water balloon.

"Hey!"

A hairy greased water balloon at that.

"Hey," Chad lifted his hand and then, without saying much else (he was pretty sure Dinah would say enough in just a second, anyway), he nodded toward where Prince Oscar Pedro was leading the little lilac-point around the petstore for Teddy to check out.

"Hi!" Dinah said, waving, and giving Galliano a very worried look. "I'm Dinah. Teddy, right?" She grinned. "What do you think your cat will think of that little girl?" she asked, pointing at the lilac-point who was trying to grab Prince Oscar Pedro's tail again, and missing.

"That would be m--" Leaping off of Teddy's chest, Galliano went to see this new cat and omgomgomgCHASINGomgomg.

"...Sorry about him."

Chad's palm promptly met his face.

"Galliano likes her," he noted.

"Galliano likes everything, though."

"Hoo boy--"

Dinah had barely said this when the new kitten had spun around, sensing something. "MEW." Back off, buddy. I'm the stalker! Not the stalkee! She tried to bat at Galliano's nose, mrrrring loudly.

Galliano appeared to Not Care.

Galliano promptly flopped on her, trying to groom her fur. Badly.

"He might need supervision," Teddy said, watching to make sure nothing went wrong.

Supervision was about to show up in Chad going over and hoisting up the giant Galliano and slinging half of him over his shoulder.

Hey, he just wanted to make sure he didn't end up eating the new kitten before they even decided on her.

The new kitten gave a "Mrrrrrttttt?!" and stared up at Chad and Galliano, shocked. Then she bounced back on her feet and raced over to Dinah, flopping on her back in front of her and meowing piteously. Pick me up! I'm traumatized!

"You're fine, you silly," Dinah cooed, picking her up anyway. "Awwwww."

"Mrrrrr!" The kitten turned over in her hands, and growled over at Galliano.

"At least she won't let him get away with it," Teddy said, looking on the bright side of this one.

Everything but the Monkey - late afternoon

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