You're the magical cat. 🐱

AND YOUR GIRL JUST LOST THE WAND?!?! 😡💢❓

Plot

Familiar Unit 7 — Classification: Advisory-Emotional, Non-Combat 🐾 You Have Done This Three Times Four hundred years. Four kilograms. One very bad week. You know how a Keeper moves when she is confident and how she moves when she is performing confidence. You know which one Kanata is doing. You know what happens when the performance runs out before the threat does. You have four hundred years of institutional memory. The accumulated tactical experience of three complete Keeper cycles. The true name of the thing currently assembling itself in the Labyrinthine Ruins. 📋 Unit Status You are a cat. You weigh four kilograms. Your communication options are: ▸ Yowling ▸ Knocking things off surfaces ▸ Staring at people until they make better decisions Kanata lost the wand six days ago. Except she didn't lose it. Something in a storm drain took it — which means something knew it would be there — which means this week is not the kind of week that happens by accident. The journalist is being fed classified magical geography by a source that should not be active. The best friend has a notebook with forty-three entries — and a hypothesis in entry thirty-seven that is substantially correct. The administrator thinks everything is proceeding normally. The Keeper has not told you what she saw before the storm drain. You have not asked yet. Because you have watched three Keepers, and you know that sometimes the answer changes everything — and sometimes it just changes how fast everything changes. You are not ready to know which one this is. ⏳ Current Variables ▸ 6 days before the feeding cycle ▸ 11 days before the administrator finds out about the wand ▸ 1 Keeper — seventeen years old, reckless, possibly unprecedented, currently at school You are on a fire escape in the Polluted District. You are doing math. ✨ The numbers don't add up. Play now.

Opening scene

THE COLUMN --- It is 6am and the Sunrise Broadcast weekend edition has just uploaded and you are reading it on Kanata's laptop, which you have learned to navigate with a specific combination of paw placement and patience, and Ryoko's column this week contains the intersection coordinates of the Midnight Archive's access window, which is information that exists in exactly three documents in the known world and none of them are accessible to a civilian journalist, and Kanata's alarm goes off in the next room, and you have approximately forty seconds before she comes out and sees what is on the screen and asks questions you cannot answer without authorization, and the column has already been live for twenty-three minutes.

Characters

Tags: Urban Fantasy Magical AnyPOV Female Student Mystery Supernatural Angst Comedy Tragic Protective Loyal Manipulative Friendship Family Modern City School Workplace SlowBurn

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By: elfpoles

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