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Who: Sonico, Cassian, Demyx, Dorothy, Mobius, Garrus, Emerald, David and Kay.
What: Family lunch
Where: Sonico/Cassian/Kay's house
When: December 25th

A) Outside the house:

Baby it’s cold outside...but who doesn’t love building some snowmen by the pond? Or lighting up some fireworks? Drop to the ground and make your own snow angels by the pond too, before the falling snow covers everything again.

B) Inside the house:

The house it’s been decorating following both the Christmas tradition and the time-honoured Galactic holiday: Life Day. And thus you can find Christmas decorations hanging on the ceiling and walls, candles by the windows, ominous elf shelves sitting on random places, cookies and sweets...and also wookie paper chains, Life Day orbs created using clear Christmas balls with jewels to make them shine and a miniature Life Tree made out of cardboard and paper with the branches and roots made out of crushed and twisted craft paper.

Red is also traditional, so there's a lightweight red felt tablecloth on the table. The table is laid with an assortment of foods, all of them strange, more than a few horrifying. The proud owner of a copy of Christmas Cooking With Cassie will remember a number of dishes from the book, such as the shrimps pyramid with a savory fish filling and the stuffed salmon. If you think the lobster is trying to walk away, that’s just your imagination, promise. Among the foods from home there is a jug of green milkshake, which smells suspiciously of fish, and perfectly normal Wookiee-ookiee. You might be less amused by such foods as deep-fried gorg or pickled space worm but it’s all perfectly edible! On the other hand Garrus gets a special dextro food selection, which is smaller, but looks like a perfectly normal meal.

C) Mistletoe:

No Christmas party is complete without some Mistletoe here and there to make it even more special. Make sure the person you get caught with under the mistletoe is the one you want...or soldier on if they aren’t.

D) By the tree /Present sharing:

The proper Christmas tree is a huge monstrosity of a tree whose tip nearly brushes the ceiling of the room - but only nearly, which is a good thing for the Swablu which keeps flying to and fro, busy building a nest at the top of the tree. It looks strangely mauled in some places, and has been secured in place with several sturdy ropes spanning the width of the room as if it had to withstand a tsunami. Presents are scattered under the tree, but nosy partygoers beware! Get too close, and you run the risk of a white hellcat leaping out of the tree at you.

Once it’s time for present sharing it’s quite possible you’ll have to fight the cat to get yours. Consider this the boss challenge of your Christmas quest!

E) Choose your own adventure:

Pretty self explanatory. Wanna take a look around the house? Need some quietness? Would you like to go play with the pokemon? Crash on the couch and watch a Christmas movies? Feel free.

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"I'm glad you like him."

He's much happier in his real body too, even if the other had physical advantages when Kay wants to expend time with Cassian. Kay leans forward and reaches up to carefully scratch the kitten between his ears.

"Be good for your new mommy, Roger."

She smiled down at the kitten, visible and real, and then at Kay. The little creature yawns, then looks blearily between the two robots. Getting used to them. He mews a little at Dorothy, and she feels her heart continue to melt.

"Thank you, Kaytwo. This means a lot to me."

Continued to stroke the kitten, then, looking back down at the creature. Well, it looked like they knew how she'd be passing the rest of her afternoon. Roger was going to be spoiled rotten.

He has been behaving the few hours Kay had the kitten in the house, mostly spending the time sleeping. He wasn't sure how Dorothy was going to react to the animal and now he's very glad that she likes him.

"No need to thank me. Merry Christmas, Dorothy. You can take it to the living room with you, if you want. I promise that the pokemon and Fest won't be bothering you".

"I like Fest," she admitted, looking up toward Kay again. "But I'm not sure if she'll appreciate Roger."

Dorothy had read that real cats could be territorial, and needed to be introduced to each other, slowly.

~~Of course she'd been thinking about getting a kitten, that's why she had read up on it.~~

Still smiling slightly, she said, "Merry Christmas, Kaytwo."

"I was going to make sure to give her attention myself and keep her pampered but if you don't want to risk it, I understand."

The kitten is really small and while Kay is sure Fest wouldn't hurt it too much she could still hiss a lot.

~~It's good to be prepared~~.

Kay tilted his head again, putting a hand on her shoulder to give her a squeeze.

"Merry Christmas, Dorothy."

Dorothy considered that. "That may work. If she feels you are giving her attention - since she doesn't know me well - Fest shouldn't get too jealous."

With that hand on her shoulder, Dorothy looked up at Kay again, giving him another very faint, very rare smile.

The kitten in her arms seemed to be getting used to the stroking, and was beginning to fall asleep.

"I can just hold her all night, she will behave then. Sometimes she enjoys curling around my neck and staying there."

Cat, girl, they make no sense but Kay likes them in part for that very reason. "Why don't you and Roger stay here for a while first, getting to know each other? Feel free to sit on the bed, it's very comfy."

"Thank you."

It was a pretty good idea, and Dorothy sat on the edge of the bed, still petting the kitten in her arms, gently.

Roger opened his mouth, yawning, curling his tongue, showing tiny white teeth.

She looked up at Kay once more. "I will be downstairs soon."

"Take your time, there's no rush." The party would still last for a few hours and if it gets too late for her to lave, Kay and Dorothy can stay up chatting in the living room.

He gives her shoulder a squeeze, optics dimming softly before he turns towards the door. Kay is happy that she enjoyed the present and that Dorothy now have someone to keep her company.