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My stomach hurt. It ached. I ached all over. I felt weak. From running? No, I'd run much farther before. My front paws felt funny. They were painful too. Very painful, like my belly. I opened my eyes. Bad idea. The sun's talons pierced through them and sunk into my brain. The sun squeezed long after I had shut my eyes. I cringed and twitched my tail. this pain was most definitely the worst of all.
Then it hit me; not physically but mentally. Well, my head throbbed when the thought occurred to me, but I wasn't physically hit. I, was hungry. My stomach hurt because I was hungry. It hurt even more when I remembered that I had just eaten. I shouldn't be hungry. My head throbbed and spun as I tried to discover WHY I was hungry.
:HELP: shot through my brain. I cringed, pressing my ears back flat against my skull. Not that it mattered, the sound was inside my head. It had nothing to do with my ears. Help? Who? What?... Where? That I knew... Maybe. It felt like I knew but since the sound was in my head maybe I did. I guess I'd find out when I got there.
I won't say I felt compelled to help. I wasn't. It was curiosity; it kills me. What's a cat to do?
I opened my eyes. The sun didn't hurt quite as much this time. I found myself staring at my paws, which happened to be right in front of my face. All of my attention was focused on them. I'd like to call them paws, in fact I do, but really they resemble human hands now. That is to say that I have opposable thumbs. They are still furry and clawed. I had the feeling that something else was different though. What that was I couldn't tell at the moment. I then decided to stare at my paws again.
This time I perked my ears. It was faded, hurried, scrambled and... Desperate? This changed the mood. The something else different could wait. Whoever or whatever had called was definitely in a much worse condition now. The person needed help. I didn't know if anyone else had heard it but I had. For the first time in my life I was going to be the one to give it.
I lept from my ledge, from safety, to the forest floor. Once again I was running. It was the only thing to do. A cat wouldn't do something like this. Was I still just a cat though?
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