The hairball comment is easily parsed, and her ears would flatten further if they could. The bit about the mouse takes longer; it's an old aphorism, and devoid of any other context she can only interpret it one way.
"How about an attitude adjustment on your racist screed, then?" Her ears are up again, eyes wide and staring, a cat's death-glare, stiff-legged with rage. She takes three steps towards him and withno further preamble, slaps him, open-clawed, piercing right through the fabric covering his leg.
It's quick, quicker than even a cat's strike ought to be; the motion of a Jellyfish's nematocyst sting is faster than neurons, faster than anything else in the animal world. It is also, or very nearly, more painful than anything else. Nematocyst's Bite was a technique that mimicked that; it didn't actually cause injury, didn't even leave a mark, but the agony that came from the prick of a cat's-claw-as-Jellyfish-sting was enormous.
A distraction technique. A punishment technique. Pain facture.
"As if I'd ever kill a mouse. What's wrong with you? You just go around telling honest people to pay for their meals in murder victims like that's a normal way to talk? Are you some kind of idiot!?"
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"How about an attitude adjustment on your racist screed, then?" Her ears are up again, eyes wide and staring, a cat's death-glare, stiff-legged with rage. She takes three steps towards him and withno further preamble, slaps him, open-clawed, piercing right through the fabric covering his leg.
It's quick, quicker than even a cat's strike ought to be; the motion of a Jellyfish's nematocyst sting is faster than neurons, faster than anything else in the animal world. It is also, or very nearly, more painful than anything else. Nematocyst's Bite was a technique that mimicked that; it didn't actually cause injury, didn't even leave a mark, but the agony that came from the prick of a cat's-claw-as-Jellyfish-sting was enormous.
A distraction technique. A punishment technique. Pain facture.
"As if I'd ever kill a mouse. What's wrong with you? You just go around telling honest people to pay for their meals in murder victims like that's a normal way to talk? Are you some kind of idiot!?"