Cammie and Catseye

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Two of Elpis's file clerks talk deer-hunting in an off-road vehicle and cow-tipping.




The phone ringing brought Catseye out of the filing-induced haze she was in and she bounded over to the phone before Cammie could reach it. "Elpis, how can I help you?" she said into the receiver, as she'd been taught to do. It was fun to say the words Nathan and Juliet had taught her. It was very much like acting, saying lines in a play, and Catseye enjoyed acting. "Sorry, Mister Dayspring is out at the moment, would you like to leave a message on voicemail? One moment please." She pressed the buttons to transfer the call, grinning widely at Cammie. "Catseye won the race to the phone," she announced happily.




Cammie stood there a bunch of files in her hand just staring at Catseye. “Congrats,” she said, trying not to laugh, “What’s the count at now? You are so kicking my ass at the phone game,” she said.



Because Cammie would never make a run for it to answer an office phone.


The catgirl preened. "BlackBloodGirl is going to owe Catseye a pastrami sandwich," she grinned. "Does BlackBloodGirl want to have a filing race?"



“Huh? Oh yeah. Pastrami sandwich,” Cammie said shaking her head, “Sure. We can have a filing race. So, who won the last one?” she asked her friend with a smile.



"BlackBloodGirl did, but Catseye let her. Once the files go into the cabinets and Juliet comes back to answer the phone can BlackBloodGirl take Catseye driving?"

“You let me, huh? Well then sounds like it’s time for a rematch. And yeah, when we get out of here I can take you driving,” Cammie had no fear. “We’ll even check out a car this time. How’ve the lessons been going so far?”



Catseye made a pleased chirruping sound. "Catseye loves driving! And Catseye hardly ever makes the car go off the road anymore! And BigBrother found a school for Catseye to take Driver's Education to get a license and Catseye is going to go there in the summer!"

“Awesome. On all of it. Gotta keep the car on the road,” Cammie said with a nod, “Unless it’s one of those cars they make for off roading. Those are fun.”


"ShinyBitsBoy has told Catseye about those cars. Catseye thinks she would like one when she gets her license so that she can hunt with the car in the woods," she explained excitedly. "Has BlackBloodGirl gone hunting with one of the off-road cars before?"



“Well, if you mean like driving in the woods and randomly running over deer than no, no I haven’t. Though it sounds like fun,” Cammie said with a laugh. “But for the record, don’t do that. I don’t think the car would hold up very well if you hit a deer.”



The purple head shook vigorously. "Not running over! Not fair!" she protested. "Running over is not fair hunting! Only driving to catch up to the deer!"



“Ah, I got cha,” Cammie said with a bit of a laugh, “I suppose it’s hard to run fast enough to get a deer. I never really hunted or anything but I had friends who did it back in school.” She dumpster dived for food and stuff on the streets.


Using her tail, Catseye finished her filing in record time and began starting on Cammie's. "Catseye can run fast enough when Catseye is BigCat. But BigCat does not follow rules," she added, clearly disliking this aspect of her powers. "BlackBloodGirl didn't like hunting in school?"



“Nah, hunting at school involved getting in a tree house and waiting there for a deer to come by. It wasn’t very fun. We’d tip cows sometimes,” Cammie said, “I’m from a very little town. There wasn’t really much to do.”


Catseye heard Juliet return and her tail lashed excitedly. She was nearly finished the filing. "Tip cows? Catseye does not know what that means. Catseye is confused."



Cammie laughed once as she finished up with the filing Cats hadn’t taken from her, “Well… in a small town with a lot of farms there’s also a lot of cows. So sometimes, at night, we’d go out to where the cows were sleeping and try to tip them over on to their sides we found out though, you can’t really do it. So it was more a game of who could out run the cows…” Cammie said with a chuckle.


Her eyes brightened like a small child on Christmas morning. "Catseye wants to try! Catseye wants to tip the cows and outrun the cows!"



Cammie swallowed some laughter on a cough, “They can go faster than you think. A kid I knew back home broke his arm doing it. Of course, he was always a bit on the dumb side.”


"Catseye will tip and then shift to catform and run away!" she told Cammie with bravado. "No cow will catch Catseye!"



“If you say so,” Cammie said, “Tell ya what, if we ever do find some cows around here, we’ll test it out.”





The catgirl frowned. "Catseye has never seen cows around here except at the burger shack. But when Catseye can drive Catseye will find some cows with BlackBloodGirl!"



“Sounds like a plan,” Cammie said, taking a moment to stretch, “Cows are tricky and wilily beasts though,” she lied. She had never met a cow that did more than stand there, stare at you and occasionally kick when pissed off.





"BlackBloodGirl is telling NotTrue stories," Catseye protested, moving towards the door of the boathouse and outside. "Cows are SillyStupid!"



“Yeah, you got me there. Cows are stupid,” she said following Catseye, “Can’t get anything past you, can I, Cats?”