Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26053883-20161020015303/@comment-33008190-20161025035058

I slink along the rippling shadows in the cave. A slight drop. A steady frost.

I move over towards him. I ignore the cats around, I melt into the crowd and emerge a separate cat.

I am different. No. I am normal. I am normal and I will always be. I know that. My mother lied to me and was just wrong in the head.

You're sick, Sunrise. Her tears fell in splats.

N-no, Mummy...mummy I'm okay, please... I'm weeping and grasping for her to stay with me. I'm young, and I can't imagine a life without her. The world is too hard. I don't want to be responsible yet, I want to be a kit forever.

''You disgust me. If you never get help, don't talk to me again.''

She left, and my father slowly died with a hole in his chest, a stretch that pierced his heart.

I was alone. But I was normal.

I had to be normal. It was the only way I could recover.

"Hey. You. What is your name?"

He looks up. His eyes are a glazed amber, shining, sorrowful.

The other cats apfade around us. I stare at him. A moment of unexpected feelings rises, and I slap it back down and wait impatiently.

"Oh...hi...I don't think I've met you before, but my name is--"