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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Bear
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Zooey
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Are the others sleeping, too? Fup yawns loud enough for them to hear, but she gets no response. She scratches in the dirt, and again: nothing back.
It takes a while, it seems like forever, before she gets back to sleep — in fact she'd swear she's been awake the whole time — but when she next opens her eyes the fog has been replaced by Zooey's backside, wedged into the cats' squat cavern. Beyond him would seem to be clear, see-through air. No more fog.
She wakes up Bear. Wiggums, hearing them, opens his eyes. And that noise outside must be Joe scratching in the brush with his hoof.
There exists a before and an after in everyone's life, a pivot point — or maybe that's all life is, Fup considers for the first time: every day, holding your balance between before and next. Lean too far one way or the other and risk falling down. When Fup steps out from her shelter and looks around, when she first sees the fresh stump across the way, she doesn't recognize it for what it means. All she sees is a tall empty space elbowing for room between trees. Stories, they're born on the wind, right?
Stories, they just are. Did she never stop to wonder at the logistics? The conservation of matter, supply and demand.
Six feet across the stump must be. And above it, just a hole in the woods filled with light.
A tree has agreed to tell her story.
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