Chapter 3:
The sun rose, dieing the sky bright red, matching the color of the Bone's head cloth. I blinked my eyes open and stretched my black and white pelt.

The sun was flowing in through a dirty window on the side of the shed. I stood up and flexed my claws, feeling the soreness burn at my shoulder from sleeping on my sack all night without moving. I had overslept, and was hoping to leave at sunrise, but the sun was already half way across the sky. It took me a few minutes to clear my mental fog before I remembered about Bone. Bone...

I spun arund, the bones in my neck popping at the suddeness of the action after so long in one position. He was still laying there, his white fur matted and clumped together with dried blood. His eye was swollen shut with the edges crusted together with dried blood. It made me sick to look at, but still, I had to help him. Still I felt a hollow sensation in my stomach that made me want to leave the shed and be sick. I swallowed and padded towards him, the sounds of my footsteps echoing through the shed. It was quiet... too quiet. Still the tension of fighting and death hung in the room like a curtain.... A really big curtain.

A nudged him with my paw and flinched as I felt just how hot his skin was. I nudged him again and got a small meow that was almost lost in the panicing sound of my own breath. His good eye fluttered open and he twitched away from me before slipping back into a feverish sleep. I gently removed the bandage with a stick, not wanting to touch the bloody mess with my paw or teeth and disposed of it in the nearby river.

I washed my paws off in the cool water when an idea came to me. I scurried back and grabbed a peice of cloth off an apron and carried it back to the river, soaked it and returned to Bone and placed it on his neck. He shuddered, but remained still. The wound looked red and angry, but I could only help it'd heal on it's own.

I sat with him, my own heart tearing and ripping itself into small pieces as Bone twitched and mewed in his feverish slumber. The evening sun reminded me of my haste to escape. I snuck outside to hunt and returned with little food, just like the night before. Tonight's bounty was a few crickets and a butterfly, as much as I disliked wings, I figured and amount of nutrition would be needed for Bone.

Then I heard the loud laughter of gigling coming from outside. I hurriedly nudged Bone into the cover of a giant green metal thing as the door swung open and I saw two humans standing in the doorway, their bodies were black sillouettes against the red afternoon sky, but my blood ran cold when I heard them call.
"Here, kitty kitty." I saw the rocks in their hands and inched back.
"Heeeeeere, kiiiitty"
A pebble clattered to the ground.
"Kitty"
All was silent, then they left just as suddenly as they arrived. I held my breath in order to control my breathing. This little experience only hastened my desperation to leave.