PARTS TOO SMALL - baby introduction

[Roy Mustang]

Was Roy being a little harsh? It seemed like Hazel believed so. Roy's ears pricked in the direction of the feline, glancing at her for a moment, tearing his gaze off of Aaliyah. "I could have been harsher," The Flame Alchemist commented, thinking back to the time he first met Fullmetal- before he became a state alchemist. Edward, at the time, was eleven and survived the taboo- he was confined to a wheelchair, and his brother was stuck in a suit of armor. Back then, that didn't stop Roy from grabbing Edward's collar and demanding what they did. He didn't care how old he was, there had been blood down in that basement and alchemic symbols that they shouldn't have been studying. If anything, Roy was going easy on the bobcat cub. Roy didn't get to say another word to Hazel, or glance at Gordon(who made comments on how cute Aaliyah was), as his attention instantly snapped back to the cub. He heard a mrowl coming out of the tiny kitten, and when he snapped his gaze back onto her, she was leaping at his extended paw.

Roy didn't get a chance to react.

Roy stood there shocked, as Aaliyah seemed to keep hold of his paw, dangling in the air. "Whoa, what's gotten into you?" He said with a nervous smile, as his gaze locked on the bobcat cub. Roy wasn't sure how this managed to happen, Roy hadn't been looking at her when her angered gaze turned to curiosity, when she recognized the connection between them. His eyes gleamed with surprise as he watched the cub lift her head up, letting out another mrowl. It was almost like she was proud, she was proud she managed to leap and hang onto his paws. Has this cub grown attached to me? He thought to himself as he slowly brought his paw down to the ground, so Aaliyah won't be dangling in the air anymore.