Ginger and Fluff padded along the wall, keeping their eyes peeled for danger. The sun was high in the blue sky; good weather for the start of leaf-fall.
"I can't wait to taste those mice!" Purred Fluff as she trotted behind her friend.
"Me neither!" Ginger agreed and the cats fell silent once again as they focused on their balance.
Suddenly, a huge monster appeared, roaring along the wall far ahead as it ate up the field. "What do we do?" Yowled Fluff above the noise.
"Surely it will stay in the field, it won't bother us." Ginger yowled back, keeping her green eyes determinedly fixed on her paws, ignoring the monster. Fluff, however, froze in fear, staring at the monster with wide blue eyes, her fur standing on end.
"Fluff, it's okay," Mewed Ginger, trying to comfort her friend, "If we keep going and just try to ignore it, it will pass more quickly."
Fluff was too frightened to respond and just stayed frozen to the spot, her claws unsheathed, trying desperately to dig into the stone so she could keep her balance. Ginger knew they couldn't carry on.
"Right, jump down to the other side of the wall and into those bushes," she mewed, pointing with her fiery tail at the dense woods on the other side of the wall, "It won't be able to get us there." The monster was approaching fast and Fluff was starting to lose her balance.
"Right!" Ginger huffed, and shoved her friend off the wall and into the woods, away from the monster as it whizzed past. She watched it go before jumping down to check on Fluff.
"You were like a scared kit!" She meowed to her friend, before realising that she was still in shock and softening her voice. "We're safe now." She mewed, brushing her tail comfortingly over her friend's shaking body. "It was never going to get us anyway."
"I'm s-sorry," Mewed Fluff, "L-let's carry on."
"It's okay!" Meowed Ginger, nudging her friend affectionately, "Why don't we hunt? This place stinks of prey!"
"Okay!" Meowed Fluff, brightening at the thought of fresh-kill.
The two cats disappeared into the bushes and returned shortly after with their prey. Fluff had caught a black bird and Ginger a squirrel.
"That was easy!" Fluff mewed before tucking into her fresh-kill.
When they had finished, the pair leaped back up onto the wall, their spirits raised by full bellies. The wall soon came to the end and the cats jumped down into the farm. "Now we just need to find the barn." Meowed Ginger. They skirted the farm, working their way inwards whilst searching for the barn.
"Is this it? It looks familiar." Meowed Fluff nodding towards a large wooden structure with a thatched roof. Ginger crept cautiously closer to the building and tasted the air. Her green eyes lit up with excitement.
"I think I remember it, yes! It definitely smells of mice." Ginger answered enthusiastically.
The cats padded around the barn together, looking for the hole they had used to enter it in the past.
"Here!" Meowed Ginger as she spotted the opening. Fluff trotted excitedly towards her.
"This is the start of our new lives!" She mewed.
Ginger purred and entered the barn with Fluff in tow as the sun started to set, turning the sky pink and purple.
The barn was warm, with hay and straw everywhere. The scent of mice flooded the cats' nostrils.
"How about we catch a mouse and go to sleep?" Fluff yawned.
"Sure." Ginger replied, pouncing onto an unsuspecting mouse. "Look how fat this is!" She exclaimed as she held up the creature by its tail.
"Wow!" Fluff gazed in awe at the prey, "We'll never go hungry here!"
Fluff quickly caught her own mouse and the two cats devoured them, mumbling to each other about how good they tasted as they ate.
They fell asleep as the sun was replaced by the moon and the stars watched over them.