Username: cujo.
Cat Name: foxstep
Gender: female
Rank: warrior
Clan: agaric clanAge: 35 moons
Prompt: sweet little kitten, causing mini wars. "but i want her more!" "well i saw her first!"
sweet little kitten, ears still shut, eyes still closed, surrounded by warmth.
sweet little kitten, just two moons old,
and their mother's face becomes a bittersweet memory.
human children are ever so fickle.
they loose interest so fast when she just wants to sleep,
when she brings out her little claws and tells them off for rousing her with rough hands.
one scratch too many, that's what's the cause.
and sweet little kitten is put in a box.
sweet little kitten is driven out to the woods.
and sweet little kitten touches grass for the very first time.
gets distracted by the feel of it, wet and soft, beneath their little paws.
and she's so distracted she doesn't notice them leave, until she looks up -
and sweet little kitten is left all alone.
sweet little kitten searches hard, but the humans who -
said they were her family now -
are gone.
sweet little kitten, hungry and scared, creeps through the forest,
her fur all on end. the sounds are so loud -
so scary, so new. what's that, what's that? is it friend or foe?
sweet little kitten just doesn't know.
her mother did not teach her to know what is danger,
to know what sounds warrant hiding as quick as a mouse.
she's never hunted, not really,
not something that doesn't move on a string,
and poor sweet little kitten is ever so hungry.
sweet little kitten finds a big hole,
and it smells so strange, but it's warm
and it's dry, and she's ever so cold.
so down sweet little kitten goes,
and sees no danger in the eyes of bright gold.
the vixen is mourning, she's just lost her cubs.
and the kitten is so small, and her cries are so weak,
that the urge for dinner is quelled beneath one
to mother the sweet little thing. so mother she does,
and she teaches her not-cub to hunt, how to stalk
like a fox, and how to run with the wind.
sweet little kitten grows into a beautiful not-vixen,
and she stays by her mother one season and another,
raises her little fox siblings as true as any other,
fetches the food and sings them soft songs,
when their ears are still shut and their eyes are still closed.
but the time does come, for sweet little kitten to go,
to find her own place,
and it's quite scary,
but ever so exciting too.
and she knows where her home is, if she needs to return,
her mother's gold eyes will know her forever.
so grow up kitten travels, all through the forest,
learns every stone and every mouse hole,
and she doesn't expect to find her new home,
in the middle of the forest,
with the cats who were raised cats,
with eyes not the same shade of gold,
who welcome her home, like she has
always been one of their own.
