Cat Lina, long-haired cats, cats, cats...
Meow-ow!
"Why did Lord Cat Lina change the territory's name to something so tongue-twisting? It's hard for cats to pronounce..."
Giant Cat Tasia yawned, patted her fluffy belly, and reluctantly rolled out of her cat nest. She landed with two springy thumps, leaving her quite pleased with the fullness of her figure and the softness of her fur—in short, with how delightfully plump she was.
Cat Tasia slowly rose from the floor, then waddled with the bow-legged gait unique to chubby creatures, thump, thump, thump, until she reached a whole slab of dragonflame stone and pressed a paw against it.
This sort of stone had been endlessly roasted in fire and grease by legendary dragons, retaining a constant, ever-changing high heat. She had picked it up somewhere.
"At first glance, Cat thought this looked like something missing from home. Just as Cat expected, meow-ow."
Warmth seeped into her fleshy paw pads, and she nodded in satisfaction.
Anything that felt nice and warm to her had to be at least two or three hundred degrees!
She gripped the natural stone cup warming atop it in her paw and gulped down the hot tea inside, brewed with tea leaves, berries, ginger, and Cat Paw Honey. Her cat ears immediately stood straight up, and she let out an energized meow-ow-ow.
Her vigor restored, she was fully awake.
Cat Tasia, a long-whiskered Long-Haired Cat Lamp of the [Mineralogist Giant Cat Lamp] breed, clawed down a giant-cat-sized headlamp from the thick corkboard wall of her nest. Though it sounded ridiculous, Mineralogist Giant Cat Lamps used cold light; their glow was faint and pale, incapable of serving properly.
One could tell simply by looking at their nests.
Inside the wood-and-stone nests lay patches of naturally luminous fluorescent grass, along with