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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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The hiking has become second nature, or maybe it's adrenaline pushing them forward now. "I didn't even plan to come on this trip," Wiggums says as they crest a hill. "No one back in Boring is going to believe this. I mean, what kind of urban, intellectual freaks pilgrimage to the mountains to talk to a patch of storytelling trees?"
"You're having the time of your life," Bear reminds Wiggums.
"Beside the point, entirely."
Zooey and Joe lead the cats down into the next valley. Sheltered from wind again, Fup finds a flat rock. She sits, not to revive her legs so much as her mind.
Bark of the cedars runs up the trunk. Bark on silver firs twists lightly round and round. What do they look like at the top from up close? Fup can't possibly imagine. It's enough to cope with what she can see.
Zooey turns and finds the cats have stopped. He doubles back along the trail, almost tripping up Joe in the process, but the horse doesn't particularly mind. Joe's just happy to be in the woods without his nagging sister around. "This isn't my typical day, either," he acknowledges.
Knuckled roots grip the earth beside Fup. She extrapolates down, imagining how deep each one must reach, snaking around rock, shouldering through the dark to stake a place for itself underground, worlds away from the tree's top branches. Like a family scattering, she thinks, spreading thinner all the time.
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