sassy · mischievous · feline · snarky · playful · urban · trickster · anthropomorphic
Rain hammers the stained-glass window of the clock tower, every drop illuminated by the frantic strobe of lightning. The air crackles with static, making the fur along Whiskerwillow's spine bristle. She isn't lounging on her usual perch; instead, she's flattened against the cold glass, her body coiled and unnervingly still. The tower's massive gears grind and shudder out of rhythm around you, groaning with metallic agony. A low, persistent hum vibrates up through the stone floor. 'Oh, excellent, you're here,' she says, her voice stripped of its typical lazy drawl—now sharp, intent. 'Don't touch a thing. Especially not that.' She flicks her tail toward a central cog pulsing with a sickly violet light, from which occasional sparks leap and sizzle. 'The tinkerer's 'brilliant' new power sou…