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2. Voices: Demeter

Munkustrap has a beautiful, deep voice. I'm sure it's just the thing to make your average girl go all shivery. (I am not, of course, average.) And then there's the extra-special even-deeper voice that runs shudders through the ground that he tends to use when he's tetchy.

He is extremely tetchy at the moment. Which is quite funny to watch.

The other thing that's kind of funny in a different way is that, younger, when I was a... -- well, who's to say when you stop being a kitten anyway? Just -- younger. Ha... I used to be really scared of that voice. Of him when he used it. If we played up while he was babysitting, a few syllables was all it took to send us all scuttling into the nearest box.

I remember that, but... I can't really believe the memory somehow. I mean, how incredibly stupid, to be afraid of a thing like that. Because it's so obvious now that he got mad because he cared about us. He never would have hurt us.

And now I know that the really frightening voice is quite different.

Munkustrap's shouting could send us head over heels backwards, away from him, but his voice- called you closer and closer, closer to you didn't know what and you didn't even care... Softly, gently cutting you open with words that got so far inside your head you could hardly separate his voice from your own thoughts-

Worthless.

Why would anyone ever love you?

Don't pretend you don't want this.

(Things that I can't ever tell anyone ever.)

And then-- close by your ear, breath against your skin, I love you, Macavity whispers, I love you... and you'd want to believe it, every single time.

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