Private Finished Looking For Trouble

Tomomi snickered at the woman's reaction, still in her cat mode, and sneaked back to Eli. He asked her a question and Tomomi turned back into her human form, with a contemplating expression on her face.
"It's none of those things, more like the feeling, and surroundings. Ya see, that woman had kinda the smell that she'd be easy to prank, plus there was a branch right above her. I mean, c'mon, at least try to look like you got your guard up."
Tomomi grinned and looked at the surroundings again. No one was looking their way, in other words she hadn't been busted.
"I won't prank 'em, so just pick someone out from this crowd ya think would be prankable."

"My dude, nearly anyone is prankable at some point. Ya just have a day today when you're prankable."
Tomomi tapped Eli's shoulder consolingly.
Tomomi waited for Eli to choose, chilling against the tree. She had noticed the man and the dog ages ago but was pretty impressed when Eli noticed them too.
"Ya impress me Eli. Ya really got some pranker potential in ya, buddy."
Tomomi nudged him a bit and now started to scan the surroundings herself.
"But that's too risky, it can cause some casualties. Ya gotta choose someone solitary, with minimal damage if you're in a public place. Like that."
Tomomi pointed at a boy flying a kite on the grass, looking really focused.
"The kite's tied to his wrist so it won't fly off if ya make 'im stumble an' fall."

Tomomi leaned back and got a contemplative expression on her face.
"I've been prankin' since I was just a tiny kitten in the backalleys, messin' with my siblings. I stopped for a whilewhen I got adopted by my owners but after I realized they adored me I began again, doin' just harmless cat pranks. When I turned human I could challenge the big leagues an' I never stopped."
Tomomi grinned at Eli but it changed to a small smile.
"I bet ya think I'm childish, right? Just a brat pullin' pranks for fun. 'S okay, if ya think like that. It is partly that too."
Tomomi turned to look at the kite kid again.
"But it's not just that I'm a brat. Ya know, that woman I just pranked? She could've been an angel for all I know, or a god. And that kid flyin' a kite could be a fucking anti-Jesus. But I could prank 'em anyway, a weak alley cat like me. Anyone, even a god, can be pranked, except if they can, like, see the future. Then I would have to get clever. But pranking is somethin' I use to even the ground, ya know. Bring the all mighty back to the ground, because we are all from there. We all got some weakness, some human in us. I just want to remind others of that. That's all."
Tomo watched the kid fall down by himself and scoffed when purple blood flowed from his palm.

Eli didn't mock Tomomi for her reasons, or even make a comment. Tomomi appreciated that, it showed that Eli, on some level, got what Tomomi had been trying to say. It felt good, to be understood.
Eli asked Tomomi a question and she nodded, still looking at the kite kid. Or more his kite now.
"I'm a bakeneko and I used to be a plain, ordinary cat. But I was special cat with magic and when that kinda cat turns 7, 10 or 13 they become bakeneko. I became bakeneko when I turned 7. Just one day poof! Woke up as a 7-year-old kid."
Tomomi sighed and glanced at her right hand, void of pinky and ring finger. Then she watched as the kite kid's mom came to tend the boy's hand.
"I wonder what that boy is. Is he wearin' a glamour?"

Tomomi pfft'd at Eli's comment on her story.
"Yeah, strange experience is a huge understatement. My owner, this little girl, thought I was her imaginary friend come to life."
Tomomi reminisced the moment, the joy and surprise on the little girl's face. She was 17 now. Time flew past so fast.
"Even though I should only be 14 I feel ancient..."

Tomomi observed the kite kid and true, there weren't any jewellery on him.
"Glamours can be spells too though. We wouldn't be able to see that."
Tomomi turned to look at Eli. He looked very normal.
"I told ya I was a cat. Can ya tell me what you are, of if you're anything."