Ark 4 - gaming cat

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After laying on the ground unhappily for a few minutes, Shu Ning climbed back onto his legs and surveyed his surroundings. He walked over to the couch in the middle of the room and jumped atop it, taking two tries to coordinate his limbs properly to take the leap. From there he could see a TV hanging on the wall opposite the sofa, a wooden bookshelf reaching up towards the ceiling beside it and a large dinner table making up the space behind him.

Shu Ning scrambled off the furniture once he noticed a door left slightly ajar in the hallway. He ran over and placed a paw on the wooden surface to push it all the way open. The room it opened up towards was obviously the sleeping quaters of the human inhabiting this appartment. The walls were painted in a soft blue only covered by a wardrope on one side and a desk on the other. In between them stood a double bed that could easily hold up to five adults at once. 

From his position on the floor, Shu Ning could barely see atop the matress, so when he clawed his way on top of the bed a startled hiss escaped his lips. The whole appartment had been earily silent since he woke up in this body, so he had expected the place to be empty. Especially after the ruckus he had made before. Now though, Shu Ning had tumbled right into the sole of a nacked foot.

A young man was lying prone on the sheets, wearing a cotton pyjama. His head was covered by a silver motorcicle helmet that was connected to a huge metallic box by wires which was placed next to the bed. The skin of the male looked pale in the sparce lighting and his arms lay weak and thin next to his upper body. There was also an IV line attached to one of his hands, dripping a transparent liquid slowly into the man's vains and completing the look of an ill patient.

Shu Ning stopped next to the human's head and tapped one of his claws on the male's shoulder. The body's chest continued steadily rising up and down but other then that there was no further reaction. He tried again, this time putting more force into it and piteously meowed when there was still nothing. 

Giving up on his owner for now, Shu Ning left to search for the kitchen. His stomach felt like a blackhole that could swollow up an entire amada and a dull throb attacked the back of his skull. This body was obviously very hungry and probably been so for a while as the skin of the feeline painfully rubbed over the bones sitting right underneath.

Once Shu Ning had found the kitchen, he immediately wrapped his paws around the doorhandle of the refrigorator and pulled. When it didn't pudge he placed one of his feet against the other door and threw his whole weight into the task. With a 'swish' it swung open and a cold breath raised the hairs on the cat's body. Shivering, Shu Ning stuck his nose into the freezing interior and searched through the edibles inside. After crawling through each of the shelves and clawing through the food he gave up. Most of it has long expired or grew a white hairy coat atop.

After closing the refrigorator again, Shu Ning was still left shivering from the cold and he tiredly moved back into the livingroom. Before he allowed himself to drop down onto the soft looking carped though, he descided to try his luck with the bathroom. As far as he knows, most people store their cat food in their restroom. So without further adoo, he crossed through the livingroom, entering the bedroom again and finding the entrance he was looking for half hidden behind the mechanical box. 

The door was wide open and Shu Ning immediately saw the cat realated things strewn all over the floor. The dry food packagings were torn to shreds and it's content nowhere to be found, the litter box was a complete mess and the smell so bad that the cat had to take a step back repulsed and in between all of that the cans filled with wet cat food showed a multitude of teeth marks on it's surface. Though they were the only edibles that were still mostly intaced.

Shu Ning placed one of his paws onto a can and pushed his teeth under the opener. Grabbing onto it with his jaw, he pulled the lid off of it and carefully licked at it's content. It deffinitely wasn't the best thing he had ever eaten but he still gnawed at the content with relish as his stomach finally send out a warm  content feeling.

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