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As it turns out, it didn’t matter that Calliope didn’t have cat food, as she didn’t need it.
Instead, Harbinger decided to help themselves to nearly all of the contents of her fridge.
Calli, dumbfounded, just gaped as she watched this tiny feline that could fit in the palm of her hand gulp down their fifty-something piece of KFP.
What the Hell is this cat’s digestive system made of?!
Harbinger, finally satisfied after their great feast, yawned and stretched contentedly. They jumped on top of the counter on which Calli was sitting and curled up next to her, going into what Calli could only assume to be a food coma.
The cat and reaper had grown a little closer over the course of breakfast. And by that, Calli just fed Harbinger food. It turns out that you get pretty far with cats by just feeding them some food.
Calli sighed, “Damn, it’s going to be expensive feeding you. You have quite the appetite, little guy.”
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“Wait, are you even a guy? What the fuck is your gender anyways.”
The thought hadn’t even crossed the reaper’s mind until now. As an apprentice of death, she wasn’t really used to a lot of mortal concepts, such as the thing humans call ‘gender.’
She did know that it was apparently important to know one’s gender though.
However, to Calli’s dismay, Harbinger responded to the reaper’s inquiry withutter silence, as if their gender totally wasn’t an important topic.
“C’mon dude, work with me here!”
And still, Harbinger stayed silent. They’d much rather get their beauty sleep than answer stupid questions about their identity.
Calli supposed it was meant to be. It wasn’t like Harbinger could talk anyways.
But she could just check for herself…
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Yeah no, She isn’t about to do that. That’s just weird yo.
She may be a reaper, but even she still has a little bit of common sense my dude.
At that moment the doorbell rang, snapping Calli out of her sudden bout of discomfort.
Huh, that’s weird. I don’t think I was expecting visitors today-
Wait.
It was then that Calliope remembered something.
Oh, that better not be who I think it is.
She hopped off the counter, the sudden movement caused Harbinger to look up from their slumber and give her a glare.
“Sorry my man, I gotta get the doot real quick.”
Calli rushed to the door, opening it and-
“KIKKERIKI!!!”
She immediately closed the door.
“Hey!” A certain bird’s muffled cry could be heard from behind the door. “What was that for?! Let me in!”
Apparently, the ever diligent reaper’s apprentice had somehow forgotten the fact that she had an off-collab scheduled with Kiara that morning. She supposed she was so caught up with Harbinger’s antics that it just slipped her mind.
Stupid human brain and forgetting shit dumb shit fuckaidkwxjgjasjwef.
After stealing herself for a headache, as what always came with the Bird, Calli cracked the door open and peeked at Kiara.
The phoenix wore her signature orange KFP uniform, which bore smudges of soot from the Underworld elements. On her face she wore a pout, one which Calli had to look away from, lest she be overwhelmed from the damn bird’s cuteness.
“Uh… Howdy Kusatori, sorry for closing the door on you. You just startled me, my dude.
Kiara’s pout faded, replaced by a smirk.
“Startled you? How did I do that? You knew I was coming over for our off-collab right?
“Shut up…”
“Perhaps, your heart skipped a beat upon seeing me cause you just loooooove me so much?”
Calli grunted and opened the door to let Kiara in. She turned her back on the annoyingly flirty bird to hide the blush on her face.
Kiara giggled and followed Calli into the house, practically bouncing in. And then she stopped, as she set her eyes upon a particular cat.
Harbingers’s glowing green eyes met Kiara’s glossy violet ones.
“CALLI?! YOU GOT A CAT. OH MY GOSH THEY’RE SO CUUTE AWWWWWWW!”
Kiara then immediately dashed for the displacer beast, holding her arms out ready to envelope the poor fur ball in her embrace.
Naturally, Harbinger didn’t like this new development. They yowled at the top of their lungs, and scurried off like black lightning. Their form shifted and blurred, they looked like they were in several places at once. As they had ran off into the shadows, Kiara only managed to hug air, and she face planted straight into the counter with a loud thud.
Calli frantically rushed over to Kiara, not that she cared for or anything, she just didn’t to have or drag the stupid bird’s body to the hospital.
“Holy shit Kiara are okay?! Come on man speak to me?!”
Kiara rolled over to look at Calli, her face was bruised but it would be alright. She was a tough bird.
“Calli…” Kiara whined
“Yes Kiara?” Calli held Kiara in her arms.
“My face really hurts… Could you give it a kiss to make it feel better.”
Calli then dropped the shit bird.
“Ow! Hey! That wasn’t a kiss!”
Still on the floor, Kiara pouted and crossed her arms, looking up at the reaper.
“You really need to be more careful,” Calli sighed, ignoring Kiara’s pleas for a kiss, “also, could you please try not to scare Harbinger? They aren’t even that used to this house yet.”
“Okay…” Kiara looked like a child that had just gotten scolded, the sight made Calli’s stone cold reaper heart soften a little.
She sighed, “Here…” She leaned down over the bird, and gave them a small peck on the forehead. “Now would you go start setting up the stream for me my dude? I have to check to see if Harbinger is okay.”
“Calli…”
Ah shit.
“I KNEW YOU REALLY LOVE ME!!!”
“AHH! GEEZ KUSOTORI, NO. DONT GET IT TWISTED!”
“KISS ME AGAIN CALLI! MY FACE STILL HURTS!!!”
“NO!! BAD BIRD! DOWN! DOWN!”
While Calli wrestled with the love struck bird, trying to pry them off her, Harbinger stared at the duo in the distance. They had only one thought in mind.
Hungry.