A Family Field Trip

[Fireflake]

Debris the Loner

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Debris stared around with wide brown eyes. Over here was a huge shed. Over there were big piles of dead grass. Somewhere back there Debris could swear she'd seen a walking pillow. All of this was lit up by the sun at the start of its slow descent in the sky. Oh, and the very best part... not far behind her were her littermates! "Socket, have you seen all this?" she asked excitedly, whipping around far too fast and teetering before she plopped face first into the ground. She crinkled up her face and rubbed her nose for a moment before her eyes opened wide once more. "It's even better up close!" she whispered.

Jumping back to her paws, she once again teetered before finding her balance with her swishing tail. "Oh Paper Towel, isn't this smell strange?" she noted. "This whole place..! I wonder who lives here?"
Surrounded by all the strange smells, she didn't even think to look for cat-scent. She didn't even think about thinking about it. She did pause for just a moment to allow one thought. "Do you think they have trash?"

The she-cat pranced on, swishing her tail uselessly before she threw a clumsy leap at one of the dead-grass piles. Her claws dug in and she moved to haul herself up. The grass seemed to have other ideas. Spraying her with long dead blades, it was determined to fling her off, and she ended up tumbling down. Some twist of fate arranged for her to land on the fallen grass and not injure herself. Patting the pile carefully with a front paw, she quickly walked away as if she hadn't touched-- and damaged-- it. "Do you guys want to go look for the trash?"

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[gingersnapsdacat]

Paper Towel dutifully followed behind his sister, ears pricked for any new sounds, and brown eyes wide in amazement. "This place sure is nifty!" he said, looking around in wonder. He was so busy looking at the clear sky, and the beautiful surroundings, he did not even realize his sister had fallen head over tail until he tripped over her, landing on his back. 
"Woah! The world flipped!" 
He stuck his paws straight up in the air for a moment, lazily flailing them around. But as he watched his clumsy sister get back to her paws, he was inspired to do the same. 
"Every smells so gooooooooood!"

[mewmehh]

Behind two of the possum posse was a third of the littermates, a dusty fawn and silver she-cat a little less enthusiastic about their current whereabouts. While a few of their sisters remained behind in their loud, yet safe home in the twolegs' station, Cardboard Box found herself trailing after Debris and Paper Towel despite her better judgement. Then again, her best judgement deemed that the two most wild cats in their litter wouldn't be up to the task of regarding their own safety, so there she was, acting as the skittish mother hen.

"Hey now, slow down, will you both?" squeaked a worried, shrill voice as her iron-hued eyes glued themselves to the ginger and brown cats. Her dark tail twitched uneasily, her nerves causing subtle tweaks and shivers through the rest of her body as well. Box glanced at the barn as her siblings made their way inside and shuddered at the musty smell of the place. "A-are you guys sure you don't wanna check some other place out? It smells sorta bad here, like, really bad. N-not clean at all..." And yet, she followed them inside, ears erect and whiskers trembling.

Studying the pile of shredded, dried grass, Box tentatively crept into the prickly pile after Debris and PT, anxious as the odd aroma overtook her., turning her thoughts fuzzy and warm. It was mildly comforting in spite of her paranoia.

[Fireflake]

Debris the Loner

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Debris made a small squeaking sound as Paper Towel tripped over her. She sniffed him for a heartbeat, then skipped away happily when he got up. The she-cat had run a bit ahead the whole way, crashing into clumps of grass and gleefully splashing in any puddles she came to, and her sister's calls had unfortunately become background noise.

It was only now, poised in front of the large red shed, that she really heard what Box was saying. "Oh Cardboard Box, there you are!" she greeted, rushing forward to brush against her; to brush mud and grass against her, that is, without thinking about it. "Why don't we find some prey or flowers for you to carry? I bet the smells wouldn't bother your nose then!"
She scampered away, further into the huge den, following the sound of tiny scuffling that sometimes meant food.

Debris dodged behind a stack of that yellow grass and squeezed down the space there before looking around for her littermates. She flattened an ear. "Uhhh, guys?" she called. It hadn't seemed big enough to get lost, but Debris was far too talented at it to let that stop her. "Guuuys?"
She plopped herself down, deciding any attempts to get out of the situation would be futile. She'd wait for her siblings to come and rescue her.

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sabs Stink can join in if you like. =P