Drabble Cascade #41 - Christmas: The Sounds of Children Playing (G, Wizard World 'Verse)

[charisstoma]

FB3X Drabble Cascade #41 - Christmas

Title: The Sounds of Children Playing (G, Wizard World 'Verse)
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 200
Prompt: Christmas
Wizards World ‘verse … yes again. Meridae has a lot to answer for.

It was the clink of metal being dropped and then rolling followed by the skittering of little paws on slick floor that drew the attention of the adults. Thoughts of ‘they probably have one of the new toys’ making them lose interest , before the realization that among the Christmas toys had not been anything like the latest play thing. There was a thankful collective sigh that it didn’t have that hollow sound of glass before Brian stood to see what it was.

Duke briefly raised his head off of his paws to notice that Brian ‘had it’. Rustled shaking of the newspaper said that Balthazar trusted Brian to handle anything that was a problem, he was the knight in the family after all and knew when to call for help if he needed it.

Brian looked down at the small kitten racing towards the carpet’s center with something golden clenched between his teeth, his siblings racing to see where he was going to drop the favored toy. It was Brian that pounced first.

Studying the golden ring carefully, he read, Made In China then released the toy to its fate deeming it safe. It was in the wrong ‘Verse.



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Comments

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

The ring has to fit a grown man's pointer finger to judge by Bilbo. Think it's too big for swallowing danger of small kittens.

Must be a magical ring if it fits hobbits and you'd think larger individuals, Ring Wraiths probably. Kind of like the Adventures of the Travelling Pants, one size fits all and makes the wearer look good on regardless of who's wearing them.

*sighs* I still have a holdover box fetish.

[frogs_of_war]

In the novels the ring changes to fit whoever slips it on, so if a kitten claw goes through the opening, it will shrink.

Bilbo puts it on his first finger as did Frodo (so he only loses one finger to Golum) but at the beginning of the movie, it shrinks from Saron sized to human finger sized when Isildur takes it. I can't remember which finger either wore it on.

But even if it was the sized to fit a man's pointer finger, it would still be chocking hazard sized for a kitten. A child can choke on anything small enough to fit down a toilet paper roll, kittens are much smaller, but a size 8 man's ring is less than an inch across.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

hmmm. Growing up we had a cat get caught, and we're glad she was because us kids were going to get blamed otherwise, carrying off a visitors wrist watch. Why she did it *shrugs*? Who would believe the cat would be a kleptomaniac?

This and all the other things I've seen cats and kittens carry in their teeth. They're very delicate with their moving small things from point A to point B until they get to where they want it, when the object is let go. The object isn't totally inside the mouth, just far enough for the teeth to grab hold. Still, wouldn't trust a kitten with a balloon. That's a pounce/bite maneuver.