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Nepeta was having, all things considered, a pretty bad day. Her moirail, Equius, just got killed right in front of her eyes, and she'd been stuck in that vent, paralyzed with fear while the killer just wandered off to find his next victim.
She quietly removed the vent cover and clambered down from her hiding place, before slowly approaching Equius' body. The bowstring of a bow that'd been snapped in half was wrapped tightly around his neck, his face flushed a deep indigo.
NEPETA: :<< < equihiss?
She gently shook his arm, as if some part of her believed he could still get up, that he'd only been playing dead. Equius, however, didn't respond. She shook his arm again, more insistently this time.
NEPETA: :<< < please
NEPETA: :<< < please wake up
Olive-green tears welled up in her eyes as she gently lifted his corpse up, the fact of his death only now fully sinking in. She unwrapped the bowstring from around his neck, silently whispering a promise, more to herself than to him.
NEPETA: :<< < one way or another, i will bring you back