Title: Makers of Mischief
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Cat
Other prompt: n/a
Rating: G
Length: 200
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Cat and Fox together are a recipe for shenanigans



Occasionally, the deceptively ordinary cat and the fox with a variable number of tails would join forces. Then it was definitely time to watch out. Mischief was too mild a word. Not that either was malicious -- Fingon would never tolerate malice, and well they knew it -- but teaching the younger denizens of the household valuable life-lessons was surely a service to everyone, was it not? And sometimes the Girabbit needed taking down a peg or two. Scratches and bruises would heal, and the kits, kittens and elflings would have fine stories to tell once they did.

The tree had not been that high, the branch too thin. That it went over the wall of the parapet could have been a problem, but there had been no wind, and Kitten did understand Variable Mass quite quickly (and was happily applying it in creative ways). Tallest-Redhead-Best-Hands-Mate had only gotten scratched a little. Admittedly, the kit had not known what to do so precariously situated on the waterspout, that was an advanced challenge, but they too had returned to earth safely. The elfling had enjoyed her slide down the Girabbit's very long neck immensely: she told Cat so herself.

Fingon could only sigh.