What Will We Do Without You?

"Oh my god."

"He's really dead."

The two cats looked at the car crash.

"How?" asked the queen, a Gumbie cat named Jennyanydots.

"He was trying to save a kitten," sighed the tom, Skimbleshanks

"Which one?" she asked again through a mask of tears.

"Jemima."

"I have to talk to her." But she made no move to leave.

"Yes," he agreed.

"Will it ever be the same?"

"No," he said, "it won't."

She sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder.

He looked at the crash before them.

Together the tom and queen slowly made their way down the car to the ground, looking over the junkyard that would never be the same without their leader Old Deuteronomy.