dear (p)rudence

[Natalia]

Natalia quickly shut her eyes tight, still not used to this sort of touch.

If she ever touched someone normally nowadays, it was a fight. She opened her eyes and raised her head back up to level as Jude took a step back. "... Okay." She agreed.

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Jude took a glance behind him before sitting down. "I don't think IceClan needs me right away." He looked at her with a smile. "I'll stay a little longer. Is anything new with you?"

[Natalia]

Natalia returned Jude's smile with the slightest of her own.

Then quickly her expression to annoyance. "I met this jerk. Twice actually. I shredded both his ears." She huffed. "He was worse than Pain, I swear! He thought I was messing with his brother the second time, so he attacked me! He completely deserved it!" She claimed. "The first time he called me dirt and other completely unoriginal unsavory things!"

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His pelt prickled at her words, and he slowly got back up to his paws. "What? Who?" 'He attacked her?! Who is this clown?' His claws dug into the earth as he thought of ways to get revenge. 'I could find his den and put thorns in his nest. That could work.'

[Natalia]

Natalia huffed.

She actually would not mind if Jude sunk his claws into that jerk. She'd managed to come out of it unscathed. "He wouldn't give me his name, but his brother called him Michael." She sighed. "That's another thing. Apparently three of his siblings all joined Deathclan's ranks recently. His brother seemed tolerable, though."

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'Michael.' He made sure to remember that. 'I'll have to look out for someone with shredded ears.' Jude looked down when she continued. 'Is this the same family of that one cat she told me about? The one with the stalker parents?' "That's... Interesting."

[Natalia]

Natalia sighed.

"I hope Michael is the only one whose about charm equals that of a brick wall." She grumbled. She didn't want to be suddenly assaulted by three cats out of nowhere when she was off hunting. 

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Jude snickered. "He's that bad?" 'I guess we'll just have a bunch of uncharming slobs join DeathClan, then. That should be fun.'

[Natalia]

Natalia sighed.

"For all I know, that's putting it nicely. Our encounters have been brief." 

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"Ugh. I'll be on the lookout for him." 'Maybe I'll even get that one cat to fight him. What was her name? Static? That'd be quite a show.'

[Natalia]

"I was listening to those two brothers, you know."

Natalia meowed. "I think their sisters are the ones who came to Deathclan as well. I believe they said their names were Ariel and Azrael. Sounds like if you avoid the one named Azrael, you'll be less likely to come across Michael. You might run into the one named Castiel, though. He seems less interested in stalking his family." She shuddered. "Their family sounds crazy. I'm tempted to say it's worse than mine, though I'm not sure I'd go there yet..."

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His ears perked up once she mentioned a familiar name. 'That's quite a lot of cats...' "I've met Ariel. She's pretty okay." Jude shrugged. She seemed just fine, and he might even have called her nice. "Have you met all of them?" He assumed no, since there was so many, but then how did she know all of their names? The tabby tipped his head to the side when she finished. "Tell me about your family. I mean, I know about your brother and all that, but do you have any other siblings? And what about parents?" He paused, catching himself asking too much. "You don't have to answer."

[Natalia]

Natalia blinked.

"Well. If this Azrael cat turns out okay, then we'll know Michael's charming personality was the exception." Her voice was practically dripping with sarcasm when she spoke the word 'charming'. She shook her head. "I've only met the brothers." She stiffened and averted her gaze. "... I don't have any other siblings..." She answered quietly. "Sunset had a different dad than me, though..." She admitted. She didn't want to dwell on those memories. She answered at the bare minimum.

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Jude watched her look away. That was strange. Thomas had said that they had a sister, so either Natalia was hiding that fact or she just didn't know. He didn't speak up about it, though, since he wanted to hear what else she had to say. 'So they're half-siblings?' "That makes sense. You might share looks but he sure doesn't act like you."

[Natalia]

Natalia looked up at Jude again.

"Well... I suppose that's true. Thomas was always... More vocal in kind of everything." She admitted. Even from the beginning before everything fell apart, Thomas was the kind of cat who would screech to the high Heavens if he stubbed his toe. Natalia had always been more into internal screaming.