Chapter 7: Leaving
Hige sat munching on a loaf of bread he had just swiped. He had finally decided to leave the crumbling, nearly lifeless city. It simply wasn't worth walking past people, lonely, lonely people. He grinned suddenly as he remembered an old song he had heard in a bar once. "I look at all the lonely people!" He sang quietly. "Where do they all come from? I look at all the lonely people. Where do they all belong?" He hummed the song as he got up and finished the rest of his bread.
He looked over startled as he watched a black aircrarrier lift off from the old palace in the distance. He cocked his head to the side, wondering where the politicians were going before heading toward the main gate to leave. He really could not handle this place any more.
Of course, there was another little wolf on a different street heading toward the main gate, too, although he would get there and leave faster than Hige would. Toboe walked, holding a small, grey kitten whom he had picked up from an ally. It was skinny and malnourished, but strong, with stirring, sea-foam green eyes. "What am I gonna name you?" He asked it.
It smiled. "I'm called Bastet, after a cat goddess." She blinked and Toboe giggled.
"Cat goddess? From where?"
"A place called Egypt. Sacred grounds for us cats, Mommy told us. But she said it was far to the south and lost to people and animals alike. They loved cats there, like Indians loved woofies and ponies." She grinned, reminding Toboe of a bobcat.
"Oh. Cool." He looked around as he heard the aircraft above and thought he saw a white wolf traversing the ship's extirior. "That's weird." He said.
And even further away from both Hige or Toboe a solid black wolf with shocking, electric eyes sat in a village, passing as a dog as she guarded a fruit stand for a woman. She sighed boredly and watched a sparrow nibbling at crumbs near the bread stand. Her village was small, crumbling, wasting away into the snow, and soon would be gone, abandoned by its animals, and then its people. Perhaps that was why she lifted herself to her paws and walked determinedly toward the edge of the village, heading out into the wasted land.
OMG guys! TWICE in on week! Omg, I kno! Tis 'mazin' no? maybe ill even have anudder one soon, ya? Don't count on it but maybe ya'll karma will press me on as a combined force…or maybe itll just be yall's REVEIWS!! (look at that!, bolded, italified, and underlineded! ) btw. The song Hige was singin' is one of my favs Eleanor Rigby by za Beatles (who rock!)