Chapter 59: You Can't Deny...
Ralph was startled so bad at the sudden voice that he yelped like a puppy. In frightened panic, and being thrown off focus, he rammed haphazardly straight into the light poll with his head, causing him to wince in pain.
Shaking his head from the agonizing ringing it was experincing, the mastiff then sporadically looked around everywhere to see where the young female voice had come from...
And saw the outline of a tiny black animal, perched by colorful flower pot on a house porch right behind the light pole. All Ralph could see of her was that she was leaning to her right, to see around the light pole...and was watching Ralph for some reason.
"Hello!" The creature said again to him, her little voice raspy and already getting annoying to Ralph's sensitive ears.
He watched as she, whatever she was, began to try to rub her arched black back against the dangling flowers from the flower pot, standing up on her white tipped paws as tall as she could to reach.
As she did, Ralph could see she had huge, beautiful illuminating eyes that stayed peering up at Ralph in the night, the only real part of her that he could see other than her bright, pure white furred feet.
Still panting slightly at being startled, Ralph stared into the creature's eyes blankly for a split moment in time, trying to make sense of it all.
Exactly where this critter had come from, how she had gotten there so quietly or what animal she even was, Ralph had no idea.
But what he could see of her faint body outline, the small animal with huge eyes barely seemed big or strong enough to hurt a fly.
"Oh," the mastiff finally answered, finding his voice again as his head stopped ringing. "You scared me there, kid..."
He even found the strength to allow a relieved smile to form on his face, right before it fell into a concerned frown.
"Wait...," Ralph said outloud as his nose slowly became filled with a familiar smell of...something he did not like.
Temporarily forgetting his mission in getting his collar down, Ralph took a step forward to peer closer at the animal still mostly unseen in the darkness.
Taking a deep intake of her scent, the mastiff's nosed initially just filled with the strange, overwhelming smell of garbage- nasty, near rotten garbage at that. But his nose quickly sorted through the various smells and finally picked up the undeniable fact that his startled mind had somehow had mentally by-pasted up until then...
No, Ralph mentally attempted to deny as his eyes grew wide, this creature can't actually be a...
But as the creature interrupted his thoughts by stepping forwards to be almost fully illuminated by the street light, it baffled Ralph that he had somehow missed it before...
And before he could even think twice about it, he choked out his dreaded confirmation.
"You're a...kitten?"
