"Yes...that's it exactly. I'm impressed at your discernment."
He paused, fussing with the buckle on his generously cut grey coat sleeve, then letting it rest.
"Do you have a natural history book available? I'm sure there's one in the East Wing library, if not. I'm no zoologist, but that spot and stripe pattern is distinctive. Not a cheetah, not a leopard."
Nika pursed his lips, briefly.
"That it would be an ocelot...seems only reasonable."
If anything about this could be called reasonable. Liadov was beginning to feel like a Hallucinogenic Toreador in a surreal arena where the bull was a devil he knew.
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"Yes...that's it exactly. I'm impressed at your discernment."
He paused, fussing with the buckle on his generously cut grey coat sleeve, then letting it rest.
"Do you have a natural history book available? I'm sure there's one in the East Wing library, if not. I'm no zoologist, but that spot and stripe pattern is distinctive. Not a cheetah, not a leopard."
Nika pursed his lips, briefly.
"That it would be an ocelot...seems only reasonable."
If anything about this could be called reasonable. Liadov was beginning to feel like a Hallucinogenic Toreador in a surreal arena where the bull was a devil he knew.