Buttercup: New Charge
I can't find her anywhere in this new place so I set out to go home. It's much nicer there so I bet that's where she went. It isn't hard to slip out of the giant cage I'd been kept in with her and stopping to sniff around I head in the direction of home.
It takes awhile and some ugly dog tries to stop me but I need to see her, to make sure she's ok so I keep going. My back paw hurts when I touch the ground but I see the meadow now except it's not the same. There's a huge hole that I skirt around nervously and then there it is. The house that she lived in for years; where she brought me and helped me to get better. Except it's not the same either. It's just a mess of wood and coal and I know that she's not there. I let out a pained whine but there's no one around to hear it.
I remember the other house; the one that was new and shiny. I don't like it there but it's better than the cage in the other place. As soon as I get there I know something's wrong. The house just doesn't feel right and I can't smell her not anything fresh but the other one, the hunter, is here. I don't really like the hunter but she does give me delicious treats sometimes and last time she brought me back to her. Maybe the hunter can do it again.
I meow to get her attention but when she comes over it doesn't go as planned. She starts yelling and throwing things – not treats but things that hurt – and she looks wilder than anything I encountered on my trek here. The hunter says her name and I don't know how but suddenly I understand that she is gone. This time for good. My pained cries join in with hers and I decide that maybe the hunter's not so bad after all. She had loved her just like me.
I circle around her staying out of reach of flying objects even though she has long since stopped and is crumpled on the ground now. I know I must help the hunter now. After all it's what she would've wanted.