Koi House

Cerise walks in with two bags under her arms, her slender legs carried her forward to the front desk. she wore her dark hair in tight high pigtails that bounced as she walked, she was dressed in a small white tank top and faded blue cut off shorts, she bounced in snow white tennis shoes. she set down her bags bending forward at the waist her one foot mildly kicked back as she stood and leaned against the desk her chin resting in a single dainty hand as the other fell to ring the bell

A fuzzy tuft of fur twitched irritably from just behind the desk at the ring of the bell. A moment later it was revealed that this fluffy mass was the tip of an ear when the desk clerk popped up from behind the counter. Her hair was short today, and bright purple, straightened almost to a crisp.

"Yeah, what is it?" She scowled, the tip of a lollipop stick hanging out the corner of her mouth. The ears twitched again, joined this time by an uncombed fluffy tail, Persian in style. She drank in Cersie's appearance carefully and sniffed. "Don't have any new arrivals on file right now. How'd ya hear 'o us?"

She giggled her dark eyes playing over the bright purple hair and smiled brightly at the girl. "I was told about this place by a few of my friends who said their mothers had heard of it. I was looking for a place to stay for a while so I came to hunt this down. Are there any rooms free?" She tilted her head letting the pigtails fall behind her shoulders before pulling out a slim wallet from her purse. "I like your ears by the way"

The girl tugged on her left ear with a sigh, "Well I suppose someone has to don't they?" She released it, and the ear flicked forward instantly and twitched again. "Damn things always letting my emotions show." she nearly growled while taking a large black binder out from behind the counter.

"Yeah we've got space. We don't normally allow someone to just walk in and set up a room without an appointment but..." she flicked to the first page. An official looking document sat in front of them for filling out one's information. There were four blank spaces on this front page, and it could be presumed that the rest of the pages behind it were also blank. The girl brushed off a soft layer of dust.

"Well let's just say we'll make an exception shall we? Fill this out. Payments are due the first of every month, no exceptions I'll hunt you down. We don't have servants here, so expect weekly chores. Each tenant takes turns with the communal dinners, so learn to cook if you don't already or I'll hunt you down. Also don't start fights unless they are planned,"

and she continued, listing off a few other common place rules such as noise management, party situations, and having significant others over after hours. Of course, that last part was said with a sly wink. Each rule ended with "or I'll hunt you down".

She laughs at the "I'll hunt you downs" as she started to fill out the forms. "I can cook very well actually and I do not mind chores. I don't have a significant other so that doesn't matter" The last was said with a little sadness to her voice. It was the middle of the month but she put down two months deposit. "And hey don't worry about the ears, they are really kinda cute"

The counter girl ignored the comment about her ears, or at least she did not acknowledged it verbally. Instead her cheeks twinged a light pink. "S'good s'good, names Carna by the way. I guess you could say I'm the acting landlord. Also you'll have a front desk duty time."

Carna counted eat bill individually and with great care, ears twitching at each flick.

She smiled again and gave a small salute "nice to meetcha Carna I am Cerise. I don't mind doing front desk duty, I like people" She lifted a hand and scratched at the back of her head chuckling smiling at the blush a bit. She bent down her hands wrapping around the handles of the bags at her feet lifting them with ease. Throwing one over her shoulder she kept the other in her hand. "so where do I bunk? Am I going to have a roommate?"

"That's entirely up to you." Carna said absently, "We have plenty of space, but if you really like company you can bunk with someone. One sec."

And she dissepeared behind the counter again, causing quite a bit of ruckus this time. A few moment's later she reappeared with a beat up walky talky in her hand. It took yet another moment to peel a large hunk of half staled gum from the mouthpiece, then she pushed the large red button.

"Leanne. Got a new'un."

Static, then,

"WHHHHAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEYEAH!!" Came the screech, causing Carna's ears to lay flat against her head.

To the new girl she said, "Your tour guide will be here in a moment."

The screech made her jump and yip her bags dropping to the floor. She looked at Carna and gave her wide eyes. "Th...Thank You" She turned to again pick up her bags and now Carna could see that there was a white sleek tail peeking out of the back of the shorts. The fur stood on end as she tried to calm down from the shock of the loud yells and flicked this way and that. She stood back up smiling a bit but still held that spooked look. "I think for now my own room would be preferred. I am not used to sharing a room with any one"
She waited for the new girl that was supposed to take her around and fiddled with the tip of her tail nervously. She had finally taken the steps to getting out on her own so she was not stuck at the main house listening to how her brother was amazing and her sisters were doing better than she was. She was tired of it really and she just wanted to take some time to herself.

There was a sound much louder than that of the scream, a sound which causing similar thunderings and crashes to a baby elephant. The rafters shook, dust falling down upon both Carna and Cerise, and a small form landed on the ground with a loud *thud*. The noise stopped.

Kneeling on the floor was what looked like....Carna. Only Carna was behind the counter, and this one's hair was much longer. It was also a thick black to match the fluffy ears. Piercings ran up both tufts of fur on the cat-girl's head, silver and gold in a sparkling pattern of small hoops. The tail lashing back and forth behind her had a small tinkling bell braided into it.

"Hi there new girl! Mah name's Naracis. Tour guide, pleased ta meetcha!" She announced proudly.

Cerise looked startled as could be at that. "oh my! Are you alright?!" The girl had landed of course with quite a loud thud. She stood there dusting out her hair and grumbled just finally taking the high pigtails out. Her own snowy ears flicked unadorned by anything more than the dust that had settled into them. She pawed at them yelping softly under her breath as she moved the injured one. She had hurt it a few days back when one of the many children that ran around her village had jumped on her from a tree. They were always doing that, they thought it to be fun.

Moving her bags to her left hand she presented her right to shake the new twins hand. "Hi there I am Cerise. It is a pleasure. Are you really sure you are alright?"

The hand was extended....and ignored as Naracis slammed into Cerise with a strong, warm, hug. "Awww you're just darling! Isn't she darline?" She demanded of Carna.

"Just darling." Carna wasn't paying attention anymore. She had returned to her book.

"Well come on then. Where would you like to see what first huh? Hurry, hurry!" Naracis had let go by now, and was eagerly grabbing one of Cerise's bags.

A loud yelp was released as she was pulled in to the tight hug. She let out a barking laugh and hugged her back "Thank you I think? I would love to see my room first so I could put my bags away, but then I would love to see the rest of the place. I know I will have to do chores too so I was wondering what those would be?" She skipped after the girl her eyes bright with mirth and turned looking back at her twin with a wink. "Thank you by the way for letting me stay I know it is out of the norm"