You're wandering in the dusty, abandoned city atop Five Pebbles' superstructure. Some used to call it Metropolis, back when the Ancients used to live there. Even if none of them are alive anymore, there are still remnants of their lives left around. Overseers project advertisements for food, drinks, and decadent robes. You see a crushed up can, one of the Ancient's fizzy sugar drinks, littered there thousands of years ago. It's all now just centipedes and scavengers living here, and not much more. It's dry, torrid, arid and dusty up here, and the sun feels like it's up for eternity. When night comes, finally bringing sweet cool, it'll be too dangerous to be out. You're looking for some fruit to eat before you go rest until tomorrow, when you see a strange pair. A mother and daughter slugcat, looking for food and shelter just like you. They're each wearing red cloth, the mother having it like a cloak, the daughter like a scarf. Slugcats never bother with clothes, no creatures do, so it's strange to see this. You decide to approach them to offer them guidance to a shelter. "Oh, hello..!" She puts her pearls away into her cloak. He pup hides behind her mother's tail. "I thought it was surely barren here..."
Pearlcat
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