WELCOME TO SOLARITE. Cats representing the four elements fight to survive and take all they can from the others. Pollution and mysterious events is what keeps everyone down, sometimes it proves to even be fatal. It's 'fend for yourself', everybody against everybody. Who will win? Who's side are you on?
That was the third time Halaoui's seen a spider scuttling around today - or, well, sort of seen it, just not strictly while it was alive; he's disturbingly calm when he stops walking and looks down at the mess of black smeared on his paw.
Well, he's witnessed worse. A groupmate trying to eat rock for a dare, for instance.
So he nonchalantly wipes it against the floor of the mine.
Life is pretty boring, as an Earthinite living below ground in a controlled environment. Any and all entertainment comes from the other cats - it's not as if anything spontaneous could happen that guards haven't already witnessed and stopped from entering the mine, unlike the other clans, or anything that could affect them all otherwise (rain? What rain? Today's weather forecast is comfortable darkness). Safe, but unfortunately quite limiting.
Oh, look at the time.
Seems as if it's back to people watching for him.
The tortoiseshell Maine Coon curls a puffy tail around himself, satisfied for the time being that the spider guts are safely mostly gone, and lets his eyes narrow complacently. Scrutinization is a full-time job.
When he discovered that, oddly enough, he was afraid of the dark, it created all kinds of issues for the young male.
For starters, he couldn't see. Now, in no way was he technically blind, but the darkness was all consuming and his eyes seemed to have some kind of issue with adjusting to the gloom. They simply wouldn't, or couldn't, one of the two unholy ouldn'ts. The other being shouldn't, but you see... They should. The little chocolate kitten had spent his time slinking around the Earthinite lands, eyes closed - because, let's face it, what use were they open? He was better off feeling with his whiskery whiskers and hoping he didn't bump into something.
Speaking of which - ow.
Oh. Look at that. Or rather, don't, because, as mentioned before - he couldn't. The source of his pain and dry amusement? A wall. How very funny, life.
With a squeak resembling a tiny rodent the child stuttered and fell over abruptly, opening his bleary eyes to the darkness and sighing inwardly as he saw nothing still - god damn, he was really starting to hate these mines. Awkwardly hopping to his paws and making a mental note to never walk confidently again, little Binky hunched up, looking around warily and blindly. Had anybody spotted him? Dear god. No.
And a barely bitten off snicker from the tortoiseshell because that was priceless.
But Halaoui's not entirely a douche, however much he is one; the Praying Mantis pose is abandoned in the stead of taking loping concerned-not-concerned steps toward the younger kitten, amber eyes just barely picking out the makings of a small silhouette - assuming that it's another cat, following the 'if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck' approach. "Doing okay?" he asks it lightly.
The other cat's barely visible in the darkness even with his good night vision, so likely dark-furred like him. His voice is cheerily blithe when he adds, plumed tail swaying like a dandelion, "If you wanted to go outside, I know the way."