He's not too sure why he is being pulled back out after all these years [x-posted]

[bravestjanitor]

U-um Miss Writer? Yes, hello. It's been- it's been a long time. H-how can I help you?

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Oh that would be adorable

[bravestjanitor]

[He points a tiny finger at the cat.]

I most cer-certainly do think we are having a-a communication issue.

[sometimesapet]

[She meows again, turning in a circle and coming to sit in the same place. Obviously thinking, calculating...

Jump.

Thyme hops easily onto a box nearby, then hopping onto the ledge next to that, then walking carefully along the narrow ledge towards the shelf. A precarious position but she keeps her balance well enough. Now the mouse is closer, she can stick her pink nose close to sniff curiously.]

[bravestjanitor]

[Thyme moves so quickly (as cats tend to do) that Bernard doesn't have much time to think. He scurries to the other side of the shelf and then realizes that he has run out of room to, well, run]

N-n-nice k-kit-kitty.

[He isn't a fan of that nose - he's even less a fan of the mouth under that nose.]

[sometimesapet]

[Whoa. Balance....careful. Her perch is a little rickety. Slowly reaching with one paw to see how close she can get.

It's just two inches too far away to reach the mouse. Drat.]