HAT: Next chapter! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Let's go, let's go, let's go!
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It's been a few weeks since he's started learning from Sashimi and he's found himself rather content with his life. For the past week and a half the nightmare has been nonexistent, but it's always something that he'll worry about when it comes to going to sleep. The memory of it has gotten fuzzy and he doesn't remember what it is since he's been putting all his concentration into his apprenticeship, but he remembers how it effected him when he woke up.
"Lyon! There are a few kittens, make sure they don't cause too much trouble!" Lyon's mentor calls.
His black and gray ears prick and he grins. "Alright, Shimi!" he calls.
He knew she didn't like the nickname much by the way she grimaces sometimes, but she deals with it and that's enough for him to know that she cares. It's one of his jobs to look after kittens in the "Kitten Kart" when their parents need some time off. He's pretty good with kits, both cat and human, so he's gotten to the point that he feels he'll be able to handle most of the usual things that kits do. Should anything else happen he immediately goes to Sashimi.
One day their train lost a good pawful of customers that were cats when one of the kits got severely injured when he was making food for them. He immediately got Sashimi and the kit nearly died. That was not a good day for the calico, but his mentor reassured him and now it didn't effect him as much as it used to. He grew and improved on that, still haunted by the image when something that seems simlar happens.
The kittens rush in and the ones that know him tackle him to the ground while the ones that don't play with toys and each other, playing tag and whatnot. After greeting the kits Lyon has time to sit and think while he watches the balls of fur. Sure, he's still a kit, but he's a very capable one. He can do any job that his mentor can, (sure, with a few mess ups, but that's to be expected) and he's proud of that. He watches them with surprisingly keen eyes and makes a stern face when one of them tries to do something that they know they aren't supposed to do.
There's very little to do besides break up a few rough play fights and feed them, which, after a while, becomes boring to him. Still, he wants t make Sashimi proud and will do his best, if not for the sake of being a Railway Cat, his dream job, then for her.
"Lyon, could we go run on top of the train?" one of the excited kits asks innocently.
He shakes his head. "No, it smells like skunk up there all the time. You don't want to go up there."
"But you go up there all the time," points out a rather smart kit.
"Well, that's because it's my chore, otherwise I'd never do it," he says before wrinkling his nose. "Nasty, I hate going up there."
Of course he's lying. He loves going up top despite the risk of flying off the train. It's exhilarating and makes him feel free and alive. He only wishes that he could stay up there forever. It's so peaceful and wild all wrapped up into one. He'd stay up there forever if only Sashimi would let him. Still, he can't let these kits know that.
"Go on and play."
He smiles as he watches them begin to play again. Another day of peace...
HAT: I needed a break from all the angst so here's a happy chapter!
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