Username: LiLi041
Cat Name: Rapunzel
Gender: female
Rank: Tower Princess
Clan: eNUFAge: 18 moons
Prompt: Just like how the two-leg babies' hair may be blonde at birth, and change to a darker color later on, so too did Rapunzel's. When she was first born, her fur was white, with patches of a golden-yellow covering her throughout. This should not have been an oddity, but her superstitious family declared that it was. Though her relatives also had varying degrees of white, all of their patches were a solid black, as dark as the night sky. Her littermates were no exception. How this golden-yellow kitten came to be in the family, they said, was questionable; perhaps there had been supernatural interference. Something dangerous, perhaps.
They raised her in the 'tower,' the largest hollow tree on the hill over yonder. Away from her clanmates, Rapunzel grew up under the supervision of only a single elder who was assigned to the task. The moons passed, and word spread of a 'golden-yellow cat living in a tower.' Cats flocked to her tower from all over, to gawk at her like she was a rare animal in a zoo.
This was the life she was used to, but one day, a stranger slipped past the elder's watch into her tower. She had attacked him at first, but he convinced her to stand down, and to listen to his story. He invited her to join eNUF, as the famed Tower Princess. It was the land of stories, and she would be free there. He told her of all the cats out in the world, roaming the world as they wished; a world much larger than the little tree hollow could ever offer. Then he left, leaving her amidst her newfound, growing desires.
Perhaps there was a supernatural influence in her life, for the next morning, she woke up and found that the golden-yellow patches had turned black. After the elder saw, she went to convene in a family meeting. And after the elder returned, she told Rapunzel that she would be able to leave the tower. The family had decided that whatever ill presence the supernatural could bring through her was no longer a danger. They offered to let her rejoin the family, but Rapunzel's heart was set. She left for eNUF as soon as she could. Though she didn't see the stranger after arriving there, she indeed got a free life as promised.
Looking back, she wasn't sure whether the stranger appearing into her life was the trigger for her fur turning a solid black and her being allowed to leave and live as she wished, but she was sure that the entire series of events after he appeared was the best thing that ever happened to her.
