Our Eyes See All

Issyko blanched as she stared down at the large black numbers, the paper crumpling at the edges beneath the grip of her dainty fingers. She made her way across the academy grounds, whining softly and tearing up a little. What was she going to do?

Sniffling, she looked up and around her, trying to find the dorm building--when she saw something. And gasped. A kitty! Quickly, Issyko wiped her tears and stopped her whining, going to quietly rush over to the little bundle of fur curled up on a log off to the side of one of the paths, tucked away in the shade of some trees. She lightly set the wrinkled paper on the ground and crouched down to get a closer look at the kitty.


Her one eye widened as she realized that the kitty was sleeping, and she quickly placed her hand over her nose and mouth to stay as quiiiiiet as she could. She didn't want to wake the little guy, but he was so gosh darn cute that she couldn't look away! So she resolved to just stay crouched next to it with a soft smile on her face as she watched the little kitty sleep, all her problems wiped away from her mind in that moment.

Issyko watched as the cat's eyes started to open, and she gasped; she felt a little guilty that she must have woke the poor thing up from its sleep, but she didn't dwell on it too much. "Hi kitty," she whispered, watching the little guy move about and lick himself. She gasped and inwardly squealed at how cute he looked, holding her fingers out a couple inches away from the kitty's nose so he could catch her scent.

After a few moments of that, she gently reached to pet his head as liiightly as she could, trying not to hurt him with her cyclops strength--and she wouldn't hurt him. She had no idea that he saw right through her illusion; in fact, she loved animals as much as she did because she knew they didn't care if she had one eye or not. They were so soft and cute, too.


"Are you lost?" Issyko asked softly, running her hand down the cat's shoulders and back before scritching him behind the ears. "You're sleeping out here all alone, and you got a scarf on...I bet the person who lost you is really sad." She shifted to sit on her feet and went to hug the kitty to her very gently. "Pretty kitty...♫♪"

Issyko hummed happily, cuddling and petting the pretty kitty. She smiled again as he rubbed against her, happy to know that he wasn't bothered by all her pets and hugs. Animals usually behaved pretty well around her, but there were definitely some oddballs that acted up if someone got near them.

She was distracted from her thoughts by a voice, and her singular violet eye went large. Startled, her grip loosened on the kitty cat; "O-Oh," she whispered just barely but otherwise went quiet as she stared down at him. Cat got her tongue.


Issyko didn't know what to do. Was it rude to just be petting a sentient cat and hugging it like she was? He didn't seem to mind it...Besides, he was just a cat--tiny pretty kitty. She hesitantly placed her hand back on the cat and stroked down its spine. She was blushing a little and suddenly too shy to say anything to a cat that could understand her. The paper she set on the ground earlier rustled and moved slightly as a soft breeze blew by.

Issyko's blush deepened a bit more when he called her a cutie. Did cats even know which humans were beautiful and which weren't? She wasn't even that pretty--not that she thought so, anyways. "I-It's okay--sorry for waking you up..."

She caught her paper before it blew away in the wind and tucked it beneath her shoe. "Vorian...that's a nice name. My birth name is Issyko," she murmured, gently petting his head some more. Her blush returned at being called 'love'. "N-no! I mean...yes, a little, but that's okay. I'm not really scared, or anything.."


Issyko let the kitty go when he started to move around and stretch. Her eye followed him up when he shifted, and it widened considerably. She shook her head, stammering a bit and blushing profusely as she looked up at him. She suddenly felt that much more shy knowing that she'd been hugging and petting a cute guy in her lap and watching him sleep. Cat got her tongue again--only now he was a human. "H-h-hi....."

"N-nice to meet you too," she said quietly, still sitting on the ground. Her fingers played with her hair, her one big eye shyly pointed mostly towards the floor or at his pretty tail, though she occasionally glanced up to him when he spoke. She blushed, "Oh--y-yes, I am new. I only got here a couple days ago.."

Still blushing, she tucked her hair behind her ear. "Th-thank you..! It's um...interesting, I think. The island. It's small, but it's a lot more interesting th-than Germany." Issyko coughed a little bit to clear her throat, just a constant bottle of shy and embarrassed cyclops.


"O-oh! I was, um, looking for the dorms. I got a little lost after class today.." Issyko followed his gaze down to her papers and panicked a little, going to take them out from under her foot and cradle them to her chest. "I got in a little bit of trouble," she said quietly and stood up, looking down at the ground.