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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Fritti, Tailchaser, Hushpad with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Tailchaser's Song'
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Fritti, Tailchaser, Hushpad.. End with the sentence '\nThe ending may be seen only as the beginning of a longer saga, but, to-date, Tad Williams has yet to revisit his feline homage to Tolkien with additional writings.'.
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conversations.value: Tailchaser's Song: The novel is set in the world as cats see it, with humans being mysterious and distrusted creatures in the eyes of feral cats.\nThe cats see themselves as the first and most important species; the novel takes the approach that all creatures consider their kind to be the dominant species of the planet.\nTheir myths view humans, or "M\'an", as a race of deformed descendants of cats.\nThe book makes reference to mythologies of frogs, foxes and ravens as well as more thoroughly developing a system of cat mythology.\nTailchaser\'s Song begins, after quoting a poem by Christopher Smart, with an exposition of the central elements of the cats\' mythology, starting with a creation myth.\nThis both frames the further developments of cat mythology and culture throughout the story and provides necessary backstory for the novel itself.\nMeerclar Allmother is identified as the primordial creator of all other beings, who brought forth a pair of cats who are the progenitors of the entire species as well as divine figures.\nHarar Goldeneye is the male, and Fela Skydancer the female.\nThe first litter of this pair are also divine.\nThese three cats are called the Firstborn; the middle child, Grizraz Hearteater, raises a monstrous hound out of jealousy and sets it to attack all cats.\nThe eldest of the three, Viror Whitewind, slays the creature but is himself mortally wounded.\nHearteater is driven out and flees beneath the ground where he searches out arcane lore, while Whitewind\'s death causes his father to flee to the heavens after searching for Hearteater in a murderous rage and causes his mother to be silent for the rest of his life.\nHis youngest brother, Tangaloor Firefoot, renounced his claim to the throne and fled from the court out of grief.\nAs a result of a further encounter with Firefoot, Hearteater is blinded by sun after having spent so much time beneath the earth, and retreats back beneath the ground, where it is supposed that he plots further destruction.\nAfter this introduction, Fritti Tailchaser, a young ginger tom cat, sets out to stray from his home and clan, the Meeting Wall Clan, in search of his friend Hushpad after strange disappearances of other cats have been reported.\nThe kitten Pouncequick follows him, and eventually catches up.\nTogether, they set out on a long journey to visit the feline royal Court of Harar, with the intention of resolving the mystery of the disappearances.\nThey meet a rather crazy cat named Eatbugs, who travels with them for parts of the journey to the court.\nSoon they run into some Firstwalkers, cats who live in the wild, who are of a direct bloodline from Goldeneye and Skydancer.\nTheir thane (leader), Quiverclaw, challenges Tailchaser ceremonially and is impressed enough to allow him and Pouncequick to accompany them for a time.\nSoon, they must part ways.\nThe protagonists make their way to Firsthome and the Court, but are treated there with relative indifference.\nThey pick up a new friend, Roofshadow, and go northwest.\nThey are captured by a group of evil cats called the Clawguard, and taken to Vastnir, an enormous mound far to the north, where the evil cat-god Grizraz Hearteater enslaves cats to take over the world, swollen in size and sitting upon a mound of dead and dying creatures.\nTailchaser needs to alert the outside world and especially the court about his evil doings.\nSoon, Roofshadow creates a hole from above ground, and Tailchaser manages to escape, and races to Ratleaf Forest, where he asks a clan of squirrels to alert them for him in repayment for a debt contracted with their lord\'s brother.\nHe feels guilty with Pouncequick, Eatbugs, and Roofshadow trapped in Vastnir because of him.\nHe returns to the dreadful mound, where Quiverclaw and Prince Fencewalker, whom he had met at the court, come to the rescue.\nLord Hearteater creates the Fikos, a dog-like monster of terrible power, out of the mound of dying creatures he had been sitting on.\nTailchaser takes advantage of the chaos to rescue Pouncequick, Eatbugs, and Roofshadow.\nThey go through the havoc of Vastnir, and lose Eatbugs, the mad cat, on the way.\nRoofshadow and Pouncequick escape while Tailchaser goes back to find Eatbugs.\nHe goes into a crevice and sees Eatbugs in a near-deathlike state, and feels dazed and confused.\nUpon Tailchaser\'s uttering a prayer to Lord Tangaloor Firefoot, Hearteater\'s brother, Eatbugs awakens, revealing himself to actually be Firefoot incognito.\nTailchaser runs out of Vastnir at Firefoot\'s urging, and meets his friends, while Firefoot goes to deal with Hearteater, resulting in the destruction of Vastnir.\nPouncequick, after healing from the loss of his tail, decides to return to Firsthome, the seat of the court, and stay there.\nRoofshadow wants to accompany him, and thus, Tailchaser is left on his quest.\nFirefoot appears to him in a dream, confirms that Hearteater\'s power is broken, and encourages Tailchaser to continue his quest for Hushpad.\nHe goes east to Bigwater (Qu\'cef) and sneaks into a boat, which seems to him like a large nut-husk.\nA man approaches and rows across, taking him to an island called Villa-on-Mar.\nThere he finds none other than Hushpad, herself.\nHushpad wishes to stay, though, so Tailchaser, too, stays for a time.\nGradually, Tailchaser realizes that he is still a feral cat, and does not want to live with man.\nHe begins to see that being domestic has made Hushpad fat and lazy.\nRealizing that he does not belong, Tailchaser sets out to return home, to see his Meeting Wall friends, to hunt, to see Pouncequick and Roofshadow once more.\nThe ending may be seen only as the beginning of a longer saga, but, to-date, Tad Williams has yet to revisit his feline homage to Tolkien with additional writings.
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Tailchaser's Song
  Fritti and Pouncequick, totally unprepared, were urged forward by Rumblepurr. The chubby tom leaned forward and whispered to Fritti: "Try to keep it short, youngling. Their Eminences are a trifle out of sorts."
  Nervous Fritti could see this clearly. Pouncequick was almost completely overcome by shyness, and trembled silently beside Tailchaser as they stood before the Great Oak.
  Sunback yawned widely, showing sharp teeth as white as her pelt, and an impossibly pink tongue. "Have we received such a delegation?" she asked Rumblepurr. The old Chamberlain pondered for a moment. '.
  Howlsong, who had fallen asleep at the outer edge of the canyon while he waited, led them silently back through the forest. Fritti, full of vague resentment and gloom, had no conversation to offer, either. After a long stretch of unspeaking travel, Pouncequick finally broke the stillness.
  The days passed swiftly in Firsthome. Outside the sheltering vastness of the Rootwood winter had come.
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conversations.value: Provide three more paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' Even with the Rikchikchik's help at removing the nut meat from its confounding shell, he did not find it a very satisfying experience; though he thanked Plink effusively, he secretly decided he would not make a very good squirrel.'.
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conversations.value: As the import of Tailchaser's words sank in Master Plink was seen to deflate, and two or three of the younger females threatened to become faint again. Lord Pop, however, took it in stride.
  Fritti gave them the message to be carried, repeating it several times until Plink and the other young bucks had memorized it.
  Fritti's hunting was not tremendously profitable. He caught enough bugs and grubs to take the edge off his hunger, and before bedding down was even persuaded by the now-comradely Master Plink to try a chestnut. Even with the Rikchikchik's help at removing the nut meat from its confounding shell, he did not find it a very satisfying experience; though he thanked Plink effusively, he secretly decided he would not make a very good squirrel.
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: With a very few exceptions, all the unfamiliar words to be found in this story are in the Higher Singing of the Folk.
  The Folk, like all their warm-blooded brothers and sisters, and some others, possess two languages. The everyday language, the one they share with most other mammals, is the Common Singing, made up mostly of gestures, scents and postures, with a few easily decipherable sounds and cries to round out the range of expression. The Common Singing has been represented by a rough translation into English in this story.
  For special times, or for specific descriptive chores where the Common Singing falls short, the Higher Singing is employed. Almost all ritual—and certainly all storytelling—falls into this category.
  The Higher Singing is a predominantly verbal language, although meaning can be shaped with posture and emphasis. So the reader needn't be Constantly looking up words, much of the Higher Singing in use has been translated within the text; there is, however, a glossary at the back for the faint of heart.
  In the instances where an "S" has been used, it is only to clarify the pronunciation. For example, I felt that "Vicl," although the true spelling, was a little boggling; hence, "Visl."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: With a very few exceptions, all the unfamiliar words to be found in this story are in the Higher Singing of the Folk.
  The Folk, like all their warm-blooded brothers and sisters, and some others, possess two languages. The everyday language, the one they share with most other mammals, is the Common Singing, made up mostly of gestures, scents and postures, with a few easily decipherable sounds and cries to round out the range of expression. The Common Singing has been represented by a rough translation into English in this story.
  For special times, or for specific descriptive chores where the Common Singing falls short, the Higher Singing is employed. Almost all ritual—and certainly all storytelling—falls into this category.
  The Higher Singing is a predominantly verbal language, although meaning can be shaped with posture and emphasis. So the reader needn't be Constantly looking up words, much of the Higher Singing in use has been translated within the text; there is, however, a glossary at the back for the faint of heart.
  In the instances where an "S" has been used, it is only to clarify the pronunciation. For example, I felt that "Vicl," although the true spelling, was a little boggling; hence, "Visl.