Username: I Like Bees
Name: Penelope (later Sweetspirit)
Gender: Female
Writing:When Penelope was just barely old enough to leave her mother, the young kitten was adopted by Susan, an excitable little girl who absolutely
adored cats. The two quickly became inseparable best friends, to the point where Susan would sneak Penelope into school in her backpack. Penelope was a loyal enough kitten that, when taken outside, she wouldn't leave her girl's side. The idea of running away from home to explore never even crossed her mind.
When Penelope had lived with Susan for a little less than two years, the young girl went through a flower chain phase. Whenever possible, she'd be outside with Penelope, making chain after chain after chain. Penelope was fascinated by the rings of flowers, and originally was very intent on trying to eat them. Susan also made a lot of chains out of clovers.
Susan's mother suggested that she try drying the clovers and flowers before tying them into chains, in order to make them last longer. Susan followed her mother's advice, and soon a mountain of clover and flower chains was formed. After Penelope gave up trying to eat the chains, she decided that Susan's pile of completed chains would make an excellent nap spot. Susan thought Penelope's choice of where to sleep was hilarious, and didn't try to move her. Instead, she deposited her newly-made chains right on top of the cat, slowly burying her until she was more clover than fur.
One day, after having been buried in clovers, Penelope hopped out of the pile, and Susan immediately started laughing. Penelope wasn't sure what was going on. Was there something behind her? As the calico turned around to look, she heard a swishing noise in the grass behind her. Instantly, the cat leapt into the air and hissed. A snake was attacking her! When her paws hit the ground, she turned again and began attacking the grass. When Penelope realized there was nothing there, she stopped and looked back and forth, then pranced happily forward, assuming she had scared off the mighty beast with her fearsomeness. Except...
Now the noise was behind her
again! Penelope spun around, but the snake noise always seemed to be right behind her! She'd teach that snake a lesson! She spun and spun and spun until she was so dizzy that she collapsed. Susan spent the whole time laughing uncontrollably. Penelope had had a clover chain wrapped around her back paw.
From then on, Susan would carefully and loosely wrap some of her clover chains around Penelope each day. At first, the cat wasn't quite sure how she felt about it, but eventually, she gave in for the sake of making her human smile. For Penelope's second birthday, Susan went out with her mom to buy a set of clover jewelry. When Penelope first saw the single-clover "chains," she was a little confused. Why did the clovers smell and feel funny? Why was there only one on each "chain?" Penelope didn't understand why Susan was so set on making her wearing one of the fake chains on her front paw, either, but the cat eventually stopped shaking it off. Over time, Susan kept adding the clover jewelry around Penelope's legs, neck, ear, and tail. The ones put on the cat's tail never stayed, though; they tended to get flung across the room when Penelope's tail swished back and forth.
When Penelope was about three and a half years old, and she wore the clover jewelry nearly every day, she was kidnapped by a group of humans wearing all black. She was tossed in a bag and put in the back of a monster. When Penelope finally managed to claw a hole in the bag and get out, she found herself in the back of a large monster. Although she could have jumped over the side to get out, Penelope was concerned that jumping out of the monster when it was moving so fast speed would hurt herself.
Finally, when the sun was starting to rise, the monster pulled to the side of the Thunderpath and stopped. Penelope jumped out of the monster and ran as fast as she could without looking back.
Unfortunately, Penelope ended up hopelessly lost in the forest. After two days of falling into mud puddles, almost losing her clover accessories, failing to hunt, getting caught in thorn bushes, and generally feeling terrible, she stumbled upon a group of cats who called themselves a "Clan." Penelope was nursed back to health by their medicine cat.
While she was resting and recovering from her first few days in the wild, Penelope came to a decision: she would stay with this Clan until she could fend for herself in the wild. Once she felt confident in her survival skills, she would say goodbye to the Clan and make her way back home to Susan. Will she follow through with this plan? Or will she end up too attached to Clan life to leave?
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