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taxonomites2012-04-25 08:02 pm
skysung) wrote in taxonomites2012-04-25 08:02 pm
[Visual+Text | Location: anywhere around Taxon | Open to all]
Kitten had hesitated to visit the zoo. For anyone who can understand the speech of animals, zoos are exceedingly unhappy places unless they are constructed with the animals' natural habitats in mind. She is relatively pleasantly surprised by Taxon's zoo, but then, she supposes that the aliens are used to adding amenities to their prisons.
Then she reaches a section that makes her skin crawl in the same way Ozorne's menagerie had. Unicorns. Not killer unicorns, even, but their far from malicious cousins. Winged apes not in league to anyone and wishing to fly free.
Kitten screeches. She holds back just long enough to listen to the creatures for a moment, to get a clearer idea of whether they would be peaceful when released. As soon as she is satisfied they will be, Kitten takes action.
With a low croak, she shatters the locks on their cages, the entrances to their enclosures swinging open.
Unicorns and flying monkeys flee from their prisons-within-the-prison, free to at least travel the larger enclousure of the city itself. And then, to protect her new acquaintances, Kitten turns to the tablet.
She slowly types a message, switches to visual mode long enough to whistle for everyone's attention, then transmits what she has to say.
I am aware that many of you will be concerned at the appearance of winged monkeys in the skies of Taxon, considering recent events. Be advised that those currently flying throughout the city are not in service to anyone. They have no desire to harm humans, and should you attack them unprovoked, I will see it as an attack on an innocent and respond accordingly.
It is bad enough that we are all trapped within the large prison of the city. I see no need to leave magical creatures imprisoned in an even smaller cage, not unless they are a threat to others present here. Neither the unicorns nor the winged apes released today should pose such a threat.
((OOC: Feel free to use this as a party style post! Tag each other, encounter the newly released creatures around the city, respond to Kitten's network post, have fun finding out that you can't get near the unicorns unless you're a virgin, etc.))
Then she reaches a section that makes her skin crawl in the same way Ozorne's menagerie had. Unicorns. Not killer unicorns, even, but their far from malicious cousins. Winged apes not in league to anyone and wishing to fly free.
Kitten screeches. She holds back just long enough to listen to the creatures for a moment, to get a clearer idea of whether they would be peaceful when released. As soon as she is satisfied they will be, Kitten takes action.
With a low croak, she shatters the locks on their cages, the entrances to their enclosures swinging open.
Unicorns and flying monkeys flee from their prisons-within-the-prison, free to at least travel the larger enclousure of the city itself. And then, to protect her new acquaintances, Kitten turns to the tablet.
She slowly types a message, switches to visual mode long enough to whistle for everyone's attention, then transmits what she has to say.
I am aware that many of you will be concerned at the appearance of winged monkeys in the skies of Taxon, considering recent events. Be advised that those currently flying throughout the city are not in service to anyone. They have no desire to harm humans, and should you attack them unprovoked, I will see it as an attack on an innocent and respond accordingly.
It is bad enough that we are all trapped within the large prison of the city. I see no need to leave magical creatures imprisoned in an even smaller cage, not unless they are a threat to others present here. Neither the unicorns nor the winged apes released today should pose such a threat.
((OOC: Feel free to use this as a party style post! Tag each other, encounter the newly released creatures around the city, respond to Kitten's network post, have fun finding out that you can't get near the unicorns unless you're a virgin, etc.))
[visual]
"I've been doing this for my whole life. My mom taught me to respect all life, even if I can't understand what it's saying."
She admitted that she couldn't hear whatever they had to say. They might be sentient and intelligent, but they weren't able to communicate with her.
"I'd rather have them in a space where they can be protected than out here where I can't guarantee their safety," she explained as patiently as she could. Remembering how her mother would have explained something like this were she here, Ashley tried her best to replicate that, though she was nowhere near as good at it. "If they're in a controlled space-" She would not call it a cage, even if it was one. "-and the aliens glitch someone, they've got a higher chance of not being hurt for it. If they're out here and someone gets glitched to hate every living thing? I can't protect them all. No one can. Or what if the aliens decide to affect these creatures themselves? It's just not safe for them."
She sighed and ran a hand through her hair, trying to think through her argument and make sure she'd presented it in a decent fashion.
"I'll see if I can petition the aliens to give them a larger and more habitat-friendly enclosure after this. That I can promise you."
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Kitten was honestly not sure which way the unicorns or winged apes would choose, nor did she know if they had the intellectual capacity to make as informed a decision as she would wish for them. Again, that was her only hesitation in countering Ashley.
A cage was a cage, no matter how much prettier 'controlled space' might make it sound. The whole city was a big pretty cage, and it was grating on Kitten more than ever today. No Immortal she'd ever met coped well with confinement, and she was far from an exception to the rule.
You are trading a certainty of confinement for a possibility of increased safety. In Taxon, no one is safe anywhere if the aliens decide otherwise.
Asking them still seemed better, though. Fairer, somehow. They wanted freedom when she first granted it, and she would like to know how they felt now.
They cannot understand me, or I would ask. Mama could, but she is not in the city. I do understand their speech, though, and I set them free because they wished to be out of their cages.
[visual]
This was starting to turn into more of a debate than Ashley wanted to deal with. Precious minutes were being wasted on a subject that neither of them would be willing to back down on.
"Look, I think we're just going to have to politely agree to disagree. It's clear we're not going to see the same on this subject. If you'd like someone to debate it with, take it up with my mom when she gets back. She can tell you better than I can about Abnormals and how to take care of them.
"If they really still want freedom and you can get them to say as much... I'll see what I can do."
She made no promises, but at least a more open and habitat-friendly enclosure would be a good first start.