by TheSongOfTheStars » Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:45 am
I watched Dawn lightfoot her way around the pools of sizzling black water. She could've ridden on my shoulders if she had wanted to, or even in my arms.
But the little cat wanted to walk and that was the end of it.
Daintily she picked a path through the thickets of thorns on the steep bank while I simply gathered them up with my pant legs.
With fewer thorns on the path, it was should've been easier, but the little orange cat took the opportunity of stable ground to wind herself around my boots and try to trip me up.
"What are you trying to accomplish, dumb cat?" I asked as I scooped her up in my arms.
She squeaked in reply and clawed her way onto my shoulders.
"Well, all you had to do was ask," I retorted, shifted the stack of wood on my back to accommodate her better.
I wondered why Dawn always went to such trouble to get such a small thing, such as a belly rub or a scratch behind the ears. She received those thing often without needing to ask, but sometimes she simply had to have them. I wondered if all cats where like that.
I wondered if dogs where like that. Most of the stories in my mom's bookcase said dogs where loyal and loving, even to death but that cats where unfaithful creatures who did as they pleased.
Those fairytales where my least favorites. They didn't make sense.
The vibrations from a pleased purr ran down my back and brightened my face.
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