- May 5, 2023
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When did she become this cat? This cat as bitter and hard as the cold summer rain that drenches her now? Someone who could not celebrate when a Clanmate returned home, who could not let loose the relief and the gladness running wild in her chest; someone who only called in a hoarse grackle - squawk for authority, and waited for her leash to be pulled? Someone who could not champion for a friend to be brought home, only deem her dead and deal in the cold and the practical? Once, her heart had been a wild horse, leading her permanently astray with its insistence—now it withers and dies in her throat, grows weak in the stall of her chest.
Her head tips skyward, as if the coolness of the rain on her cheeks might imitate unshed tears. For so long she has prided herself on her lack of them, and now she almost wishes she could cry.