Epilogue
They say all great journeys begin with…
You know what, forget it; philosophy is another thing I seem to have lost, but that didn't much affect the fact that I was sitting in the lower branches of a tree trying to catch a glimmer of movement in the darkened windows of a house.
My house, as it happened.
It had taken a long time but I was finally home. Turned out Dr Rainer had gotten me far closer than I'd ever imagined and I was walking in the woods behind my house by sundown. Then I discovered just how many Erasers there were skulking there. At least it told me Soph had probably made it back, that or they had wised up and figured out just where I was going.
That was why I was stuck up a tree at midnight-ish desperately watching for a sign that I shouldn't have been over the horizon already. I guess at least I had plenty to do, I hadn't stopped running for a long time and there were a ton of issues I had to resolve over just who I was and whether I was thinking any differently than usual.
Naturally I was drawing a blank and hovering somewhere between zoning out and dozing off.
It was no use really, I knew who I was. I was Kit. Currently a part human tiger and if I was thinking any differently than I used to… Well, old me felt alien these days, not the other way around.
A light flicked on in Soph's room, and a moment later she appeared in her window looking out into the night. I was fairly sure she couldn't see me, or at least she didn't look like she'd noticed a tiger in a tree.
She looked; well. Though, as the last time I saw her she'd been in a cage, anything would have been an improvement. However long she'd had at home can't have hurt either. I did wonder how Mom and Dad had coped with her having wings now, but very shortly that wasn't going to matter.
I began to climb down the tree. Frankly I would have liked to just slink off and hope that the Lab would just leave her alone. Too bad there was absolutely no chance of that happening.
It was going to get worse before it got better.
The End