#Loooool honestly neither of us can blame them over the real reason of looking for a cat.

[crownedflora]

"Ah, Petey, hello" somewhat distracted, but still greeting him with a smile when they enter the courtyard. "Um, have you seen a cat around..? I thought I heard one just now", of course they'd check, it wasn't everyday cats found their way there; and with the half-hearted reasoning of 'maybe it's someone's familiar' and all too obvious actual reason (wanting to see a cat) they found themself looking for it.

Sufficiently distracted himself, the pensive plant had been staring at the other flowers present in silence for a good while now. Was he watching them for Akira in a literal sense because he wanted to help the human out more, or was it something else...? Either way, both his silence and trance were broken the moment a familiar voice called out to him.

“...!” The botanical boy gently jolted up with a soft, surprised yelp escaping his lips before turning to the source. Said green lips quickly curved into a warm smile as he greeted back with a coo and a casual wave of his leaf. “Hmm? Mm-mm!” He slowly shook his head from side to side in response, claiming to not have seen one around, buuut... now that they mentioned it, he could ‘smell’ one nearby! In fact, the scent was very strong! 

Kinda weird... Was it an invisible cat or something? Was that a thing around this sort of place...?

Meanwhile, as Petey gradually turned his head in nearly every direction to help Akira spot the cat, if one were to pay close attention, a furry head with a pair of familiar feline ears could be seen peering out from atop the friendly flower’s head. Just like how he was none the wiser to Akira’s true intentions of looking for one, the plant had been outrageously oblivious to the actual location of said cat. It’s likely the cat in question had managed to leap and cozily nestled itself atop the friendly flower's pillowy head while he’d been lost in thought, but even then, one would think he would’ve at least felt those sharp claws poking and digging into his skin as the animal settled into its comfy new napping spot. Not to mention the clearly audible meow mere moments before Akira arrived...