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A shrill scream echoed through the streets of the city as Nemesys struck her claws through the flesh of the rogue. It was nothing personal against the poor tom, but he entered the wrong section of the city, and Nemesys had to discipline him. Feeling another stare on the back of her neck, she spun around, with her claws raised, to see the eyes of a Clanmate staring back at her.
"Keep your fur on, its just me." Raichi's dark eyes glimmered with cautious amusement as he stood before the his leader, still, so she'd see he wasn't another threat. The tabby wasn't distinctive and was hard to recognize, but he figured it wouldn't take more than a moment. "I would offer to give you some help there, but you seem to have it covered."
She could hardly recognize Raichi in the dim light, but his smell wafted to her nose. She lower her claws and spun around the return to the bleeding rogue. The poor thing was still alive, but the look in the rogue's eyes communicated his wish for death. She dragged her claws down his flank one last time before glancing back to the combatant. "Kill him for me. I've just about had my fun with him."
Raichi preferred to keep his paws clean, and rarely saw the value in killing a defeated enemy. Murder just wasn’t to his taste—it didn’t mean he had any moral objection to it, though, and the look he sent to the rogue didn’t show a hint of mercy or even sympathy. As ordered, he stepped forward and moved quickly, seizing the tom’s throat in his jaws and crunching down.
She expected him to follow orders, but he did so with no flair whatsoever. In some ways she admired the simplicity of the act, but it still lacked the passion which she was accustomed to. Her paws slid forward upon hearing the crack of bone between crushing jaws. "Unless you have anything better to do, let's go entertain ourselves."
He didn’t enjoy killing, though he understood it was necessary, and ended up taking lives often enough. He simply didn’t relish it like his clan did, and avoided pointless murder when it was possible or convenient. But even Raichi wasn’t going to argue with his Heda while in front of an enemy rogue — at mostly he’d offer his disagreement in private, and never speak of it again if she made it clear her decision was not up for review. “Of course,” he answered with a dip of his head, turning back to her.
The Heda did not know many cats within the Coalition well. She saw them as subordinates more than anything else, and such a mindset did not leave much room for any sort of informal friendship. She was not necessarily looking for such a relationship with the combatant, but rather something she could use to call a favor in with later. "Tell me, what do you to pass the time? "
Naturally, he didn't know the Heda well, and from their few encounters he'd gotten the impression she was all-business. He could understand and respect that - what leader had the time or patience to get to know every individual in their group? Her question surprised him completely, and it took a few beats before he could find the words to respond to her. "Well, I spend most of my time with the usual suspects - looking for prey, helping out when other cats ask for it, that sort of thing. Busywork. Other than that, though... I like to see the heights of the city. Find the tallest twoleg buildings and look for a path to the top, just to see how high I can get."
She huffed and turned her gaze away from the combatant. He was clearly nervous in her presence, at least when not being ordered around. "Why don't we do that then? I can imagine we'll be able to spot some of the border on one of your hikes." It honestly did not sound like a waste of time to the Heda. While she would have far preferred hunting the scum in the sewers and streets of the city, hunting for them atop the tallest buildings was not the worst idea of the day.
Once again, he was baffled, but this time he was ready. Raichi nodded, thinking ahead to where they might have a good view. "If we head toward the border we should pass by a good spot to start climbing, and we can see how high we can get from there," he suggested. "I've been able to see the border a few times, but I haven't always been looking for that view." He just loved the exercise of the climb, the ingenuity it sometimes took, and the freedom of standing high above everything else and feeling like a god among mortals. Maybe that was a bit dramatic, but when he was alone like that, he could afford to be as imaginative as he liked.
The Heda snorted and stifled a sharp remark. She got the sense that he just wasted his time on these climbs whenever he had done them before. Vigilance was key in taming their portion of the city, and his comment was certainly disappointing, yet far from surprising. "Raichi, you should always be looking for that view. The fact that were not looking for it concerns me. Tell me, who was your mentor? I want to have a word or two with them."
He chuckled lightly. "Forgive me. You'll have a hard time with that conversation, though - Heron was my mentor." The former rogue had passed on moon ago. Heron had come during Octavia's reign and had never been completely happy in the Coalition, so it wasn't surprising that he might have been negligent in his training. Raichi didn't wish him ill, though: as grumpy and bitter as he had been, he had been fair, and the two had shared a bond. "Besides, it isn't really his fault; I should have picked up that habit by now," he conceded.
She snorted as she waved her tail. "Of course he did. Of course he just so happened to leave and you try to take the blame. " She continued. "I understand. You don't want anything to happen to him. It's perfectly normal, it does not excuse him. If he ever returns to the city, he'll suffer a fitting punishment. Anyways, where is the building you wanted to climb?"
Raichi didn't respond to that. He knew that Heron wouldn't come by again. "It's not much farther. Up there, on the left." He nodded toward the building. It had a slightly lower roof than the surrounding buildings, and though it was still too high to jump straight up to, there were a series of jumps already laid out. A large dumpster was set against the side and there was a large gap where part of the wall had crumbled away. It was stable enough for the light cats to land on, and from there it was just a scramble onto the roof.
She nodded and turned her gaze to the building in question. The height of it it what concerned her. "Why climb that building when all the others around it are taller? We'll be able to see more if we climbed one of the adjacent buildings." The gap in the wall would make climbing the slightly shorter one much easier than the others, but it could pay off to take the less direct route and find a path through some of the other buildings instead.
"It's easier to climb than the taller buildings, and you can usually find a way to jump from the roof to a taller building and climb up higher from there," he replied. "It's easier than having to find a new route to climb each day."
She folded her ears back. The more she talked to Raichi the more lazy he seemed to be. "I see your point, but what's wrong with a little extra challenge every now and then? I'm up for it if you are. "
Raichi twitched his whiskers. "I don't think you understand. The reason I don't explore new ways up is because I'm exploring for distance. I want to climb every building in the city, but I can't do that if I have to start from the bottom every day.'
She never understood pastimes such as these. They were so useless in the long run in her eyes. Why climb the shortest buildings? There was no point to it. The Heda was about to issue her order but bit her lip. She agreed to this. She couldn't back out of it now. "Fine. Lead the way."
Raichi turned and studied the path a heartbeat more, then confidently started forward. He leaped up, touching down on the dumpster then launching himself up to the broken wall. He hauled himself onto the ledge and scrambled up the side and onto the roof. His movements were quick and easy; he had practiced this plenty of times before. He moved toward the further edge of the roof, so she had room to join him, and tipped his head back to start looking for a way up the next building.
