Icon Flash: Courting, a story of the Aunt Family [donor perk]

Continuing flash series! I'm going to write one flash for every Icon I have, over 4 LJ accounts, 1 DW, and a whole bunch of not-currently-in-use, until I get bored or run out of icons.

Today's icon:

Beryl and That Damn Cat/Radar

Icon & Art by djinni

The Aunt Family has a landing page here See Boy Trouble for an earlier piece about the cat and the necklace.

Beryl's cat didn't approve of her new boyfriend, but her necklace did.

This was not a problem she'd imagined herself in, a few short months ago. Then again, she hadn't really imagined herself en-boyfriended at all, much less also en-catted and en-jewelled with a talking specimen of all three.
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(on the) Offensive, a story of Rin & Girey for the June Giraffe Call

For kelkyag's prompt(s)

This story comes after:Meat of the Matter (LJ)
Bare Bones (LJ) [Beta]
Skeleton Key (LJ) [donor perk]
and Ambush {Donor Perk}: Girey had foiled an attempt to attack Rin and kidnap himself, at the sacrifice of the first escape plan he's had that might actually work.

Chapter X: Offensive
Leaving the scene of battle is neither fleeing nor cowardly; it is simply gaining a better footing for the next attack

They rode for about an hour, until the moons were high and fat in the sky and the air was chill, and then Rin led them off to the side of the road, into a small cove half-roofed by rock. They were clearly not the first to camp here; the area had a fire pit, a stone basin collecting the runoff of a small rivulet, and a platform built up of rocks and sodded over, keeping the tent out of the lowest areas if the rain came.
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Fishbowl Time Again!

And Guys this one is so cool I want to do it myself some time!!

ysabetwordsmith is hosting her monthly poetry Fishbowl. The theme is "alternate histories."

My prompts included:

What if, say, the Iroquois or another East-coast tribe developed sea travel first?
What if the Cold War hadn't ended?
What if we hadn't stopped the Space Race?
What if we'd focused on physical health advances and prosthetics the way we focused on smaller more complicated cell phones?
What if the Dark Ages hadn't happened?
What if they'd never ended?
What if WWII had lasted longer?
What if Christianity had never spread?
Tír na Cali is based, in part on a what-if: what if the US had fractured in more than one direction during the Civil War?
What if there were really wizards and witches running things?

Go prompt! Go tip, if you've got it to spare! :-)