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[thecatcameback]

[The baseball field. A rather mundane sight for many NV network entries. This time, however, the camera seems rather adamantly set on the ground somewhere out around the pitcher's mound. Some brushing and nudging noises against the microphone seem to indicate someone try to move it, but they aren't having much success.

A small black cat with a red bandana tied around his neck appears in the frame. He, it seems, is the one so busily messing with the bulky NV. With an annoying yowl he sits down in the dirt.

Then he speaks. His mouth doesn't move but the sound of a voice is unmistakeable. And furthermore, the voice will sound quite familiar to many people. After all, it once was only a voice, no body, no form, no nothing.]

Well. Never mind then.

[Now he looks up into the camera.]

Hello Siren's Port. It's me, Sissel.

I, uh... figured a few things out while I was gone.

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[icy_heavens]

... You're a cat. [Way to state the obvious. And yet it explains so much.]

[thecatcameback]

Apparently so!

Pretty strange, huh?

[icy_heavens]

It explains a lot. [But not the whole ghostly thing.]

[thecatcameback]

Like how I forgot how to read.

Rather, I guess I never knew how to read... it's kind of embarrassing now that I think about it.

[icy_heavens]

How did you even manage to get your own species wrong? [This is what really confuses him about this, honestly.]

[video]

[electricitytrick]

You're a talking cat!

[Anders is delighted by this development, that much is obvious.]

Why didn't you tell me sooner?

[thecatcameback]

[Mmm yes, Sissel is a talking cat, and he is quite cute, as he demonstrates with an almost knowing lick of his paw.]

Because I actually didn't know any better, believe it or not.

[electricitytrick]

You didn't know? I thought you must have just been hiding it. Or--

Wait, you're not possessing that poor kitty, are you?

[thecatcameback]

I lost my memory when I died and got confused into thinking I was human. It's kind of embarrassing now that I think about it.

[He leans in and nudges a paw against the NV briefly, as though trying to push a button on it.]

No. I'm just possessing me.

[electricitytrick]

I can see how that would be a bit confusing, yes. [Smiling again, now that he's fairly certain there's no demony things going on, Anders continues.]

So, how are you possessing yourself? Wouldn't that just make you, you know, alive?

video; 1/2, also i lied this demanded my attention

[motioned]

[So much staring for a few moments.

Of course.]

video;

[motioned]

S-Sissel? Is that really you?

[thecatcameback]

Ahiru?

[He sniffs the screen, then recognizes her.]

Yes. It's really me. Really, this time.

[motioned]

I-I mean, you're really- how did you... Are you sure?

[thecatcameback]

I'm not sure how I got back home from the Port. I just remember waking up on that submarine I was trying to get to, all that time ago when I first got here.

So I finished solving the mystery of who I am, while I was there. And it turns out... I was kind of confused, back then.

Kind of. Very confused.

[jokerofcrime]

[NO. IT CAN'T BE.]

HEY! This town ain't big enough for two o' us, bub.

[Never mind that... Sissel was here first.]

[thecatcameback]

Huh? Two of us?

[He blinks curiously.]

Another cat?

[jokerofcrime]

That's right. And I happen t' be the Top Cat in this city. Just 'cause you can talk human talk too don't mean nothin'.

[Delusional: Population Meowth.]

[thecatcameback]

Top Cat? I know a Top Pomeranian, but I don't remember hearing about a vote for Top Cat.

[jokerofcrime]

That's 'cause they didn't need a vote. I clawed my way to th' top o' the heap on my own terms, pal. And no one else is gonna muscle in my territory.

[video]

[thehighcost]

Sissel! You're so cute! [Claps her hands in glee.]

[thecatcameback]

Thank you, Ms. Didi.

[thehighcost]

What are you going to do now?

[thecatcameback]

I don't know. I guess just go on living, like anybody else.

[thehighcost]

As a cat? Do they let cats have apartments?