Username: Adamented
Cat Name: Unikko
Gender: Molly
Rank: Wildflower
Clan: GladewoodAge: 4 years
Prompt: Unikko has a taste for the uglier ways of nature, its power wild and uncontrolled, much as she was as a young kitten, and even as she has matured. Once she was a family pet, kept in a lovely home by the beach. Her family would come around only when the sun was at its highest, the heat almost unbearable for her thick fur, with one member of the family remaining behind the rest of the year. The maid who tended the home in her owners' absence let her in and out of the beautiful home, she always had food and nice freshly laundered blanket to lounge on during the coldest days, locked away behind glass when the water of the ocean beyond the front step was particularly wild.
One Summer, her family inexplicably stopped coming back. The hot days grew scalding, the maid had come only a couple times a week, and Unikko grew hungry. She was so hungry. When the leaves began to turn, burning up in the light of day, her caretaker came back once more. Unikko recognized in her hand a small gold ring, with a chain hanging from either side of the clasp. It belonged to the youngest of her family, a little girl with curly brown hair and a face of wild freckles that covered her whole body, like the spots on Unikko's own fur. It was always on her wrist.
The kind woman who came to care for her in her family's absence unclasped it and fit it around her neck, the small jewelry chain felt cold on her chest. With the motion, she removed the tight leather collar her family had given Unikko, with her name on it. The maid opened the front door, the tide was especially far out that day, but Unikko hesitated to go out. It was odd for the caretaker to stand and watch her with a look so sad, so disappointed. She wasn't going about, dusting or vacuuming, wiping the windows and counters. She just stood and stared, void of her usual attire and instead dressed much like her family had been, in soft, less stiff cloth. The maid shooed her out, just as soon as she'd come around she got in her loud machine and it carried her out of view before Unikko could even try to run to catch up.
She had so many questions.
There never were any answers, only the cold comfort of the
gold bangle around her neck, as she set out after suns and stars of loneliness. She'll never forget her home, she couldn't possibly bear to take it off.