The tiger goes for Nat, but balks before it could pounce and snarls, baring its teeth, ears flattened.
Nat had met a confused sort of ghost, one of the hundred or so human ones wandering London, and got some kind of pulse out of it, and made friends. Ghosts don't feel like normal people. She imagines she can see their minds, nice and bright and clear without bodies blocking the view. Animals aren't the same as people, and creatures here aren't the same as those ghosts, but something is the same. Here are the bright threads of the tiger's mind, blowing about in a panic, latching on to fear fight fight. Nat imagines taking the threads in her hands, winding them in a neat coil.
"It's okay," she tells it. "I know you're scared." The tiger paces, tail lashing, still baring its teeth here and there, but it's already less agitated. As she keeps talking it looks increasingly less angry and more lost.
Nat didn't get any warning here because ghosts are no longer a threat to her. They will not attack her, and she can befriend them. Of course, that protection doesn't extend to her companions.
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Nat had met a confused sort of ghost, one of the hundred or so human ones wandering London, and got some kind of pulse out of it, and made friends. Ghosts don't feel like normal people. She imagines she can see their minds, nice and bright and clear without bodies blocking the view. Animals aren't the same as people, and creatures here aren't the same as those ghosts, but something is the same. Here are the bright threads of the tiger's mind, blowing about in a panic, latching on to fear fight fight. Nat imagines taking the threads in her hands, winding them in a neat coil.
"It's okay," she tells it. "I know you're scared." The tiger paces, tail lashing, still baring its teeth here and there, but it's already less agitated. As she keeps talking it looks increasingly less angry and more lost.
Nat didn't get any warning here because ghosts are no longer a threat to her. They will not attack her, and she can befriend them. Of course, that protection doesn't extend to her companions.