The hotel was actually pricey enough to have flat-screen TV's, much to the cat's disappointment. He had much preferred the old, boxy sets, which had enough room for him to curl up on top and bask in the warmth the devices threw off.
The feline – who had been named 'Poe' by the humans he'd selected in this life – had resigned himself to simply curling up behind these much less satisfactory rectangles for naps. Proper sleeping had to be done within eyeshot of his humans, preferably on a comfortable cushion of some sort.
In other lives, he'd simply joined his human of choice in slumber, finding warmth in their own bodies. However, not only did the Sun Hunter and the Light of Grace have a very active mating cycle, they were both warriors, battle-hardened to react to invasion with force. Even an invasion of their space as proper as his.
As the last rays of the sun died, Poe simply rumbled to himself and flowed from behind the TV to the floor, and underneath the chair, where shadows already waited to receive him. Once his humans left on their own hunt, he would stand guard over their temporary nest.
After all, Poe wasn't black as night just because it was stylish!
This was originally just meant to be about Seth or Richie stumbling across Poe in the dark and getting the crap scared out of them! I'd always known that Poe picked out Seth and Kate as his humans, but the idea that he remembers his previous lives (because cats have nine, of course) just came out of my fingers... as did the idea that he knew more about Seth and Kate's place in the mythic fight against the culebras.
BTW, Kate's title is completely made up – from Jacob's comment about Kate having 'a light inside you', and the word (rather than the girl's name) Grace means to be favoured by God. Seth's name came from the Popol Vul myth of the Hero twins; one source I came across said that the Twins became the Sun and the Moon, and were known as the Hunter and the Jaguar respectively. So yeah, since we know that Rodriguez is following the myth, it's pretty obvious now which Gecko is which.
So yeah, I originally predicted I'd finish this project in mid November. Um - sorry? As part of my New Year's resolutions, I'm making a bigger commitment to my writing, so part of that is finishing up the pieces I still 'owe'.