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Title: The Wild One OR In which an agreement is reached.
Comment to Meridae here please
This might just be in a new story arc in this 'verse. *am proud* She piggy-backed off my Chance Fortunate. *grins*



"Care--!"

The warning came too late, and although Evan snatched his hand back as quickly as possibly, he still came away with a set of four painful, bleeding and quite deep gouge marks on the back of his hand just beyond his knuckles. He swore quietly - so as not to upset on incite the culprit further - and looked up at the 'foster mother' doubtfully as he nursed the insult to his hand.

"Are you *sure* this is a familiar? He seems quite . . . wild."

Magister Warne sighed. "Yes, he's definitely a familiar. Just a traumatised one. He was raised by a non-familiar feline mother, and his first contact with humans was . . . ummm . . . abusive, to say the least."

"Oh." Evan commented in a small voice, eyeing the spitting, hissing, snarling tangle of fur huddled at the back of the enclosed wicker work basket with a little more sympathy.

"You're under no obligation, Evan. Not everyone has the time or emotional strength to take on a stray." The Magister's voice was gentle and warm, letting Evan know that it was truly okay to go back to his safe little university world and wait for the perfect familiar to come along. Yes, familiars were rare and highly sort after, but he was powerful, and financially comfortable, and not bad looking if he did say so himself . . . . he had a good chance of attracting a powerful, well educated and well adjusted familiar of his own. He didn't need to accept a stray.

"His name is Phinx. It's all he will tell us."

"Phinx . . . " Evan murmured, his gaze still fastened on the frightened feline. Cautiously, he let his hand creep back into the basket, resting it just out of paw swiping range.

They stayed there for long moment, nascent wizard and feral familiar, frozen, at an impasse of mutual fear.

Then . . . a slight movement . . . a brief rub of a cheek against the knuckle nearest to the furred, triangular face, and a brief swipe of a rough tongue over a bloodied mark, before the frightened familiar retreated to the rear of the basket again.

A warm feeling of joy began bubbling up in Evan's heart.

He looked up at the Magister, his eyes wide in wonder. "When can I take him home?"

Date: 2014-01-12 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
Love the tufted ears and the expressions.

WHY would he let them do that to his fur???!!! WHY would AMUR? He is not a poodle!!

Date: 2014-01-12 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meridae.livejournal.com
Easiest and quickest way to get the matts out of his poor fur. The other option was long sessions with a comb which, no matter how gently wielded, would have hurt! And it was hurting enough all ready. The consensus among all the familiars he meets (mostly Amur's family as it happens) is that the lion cut makes him look sleek and regal and brave.

Date: 2014-01-12 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
When his fur grows out again, then they will see the sacrilege but okay, poodle it is... for now.

Does/will familiar fur grow out if he's in human form?

Date: 2014-01-13 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seeking-galileo.livejournal.com
I don't see why not. After all their hair would grow...

It's one of those magical creature things I just don't question.

Date: 2014-01-13 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
I read it both ways; an individual grows equally even if the individual is in another form, and (in this case after an emotional trauma) the individual was more physically developed in the form they were using than the human form that they hadn't been in for a long time.

And wouldn't that last one be fun to play with.

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