"I will definitely show it to her..." I finally stopped while running, "But what should I do now?"
"I think I should find a place to stay first." I looked around, really... I'm completely at a loss now. "I will never go back there until I can prove Ross wrong..."
I walked forward angrily. Suddenly, I saw a stone cave, and I immediately got into it.
"This place is empty! This will be a perfect nest!" But I couldn't be happy for a second, "But what should I do now? I can't hunt..."
At this time, suddenly a black cat with scars all over his body ran in. As soon as he saw me, the mouse on his mouth fell off.
"Hey! Intruder!" He arched his back and said angrily, "This is my nest!"
As you can imagine, I started fighting with him. Of course, I lost, which was expected.
I walked out of the cave with scars all over my body, and blamed myself: "Why did I stand up and fight? I should have run away immediately..."
"Uh, it hurts..." I bit my lip to endure the pain, "I have to get out of here right away..."
"I...I don't feel very well-" My eyes went dark, my legs went weak, and I fell to the ground, losing consciousness.
"La la la..." In the haze, someone hummed a song and came closer. "Huh?" The steps gradually approached. I wanted to stand up, but I felt dizzy.
"Oh, you poor thing. She's all cold..." A cat licked my fur, "Who did this to her!?"
"She needs help, I have to take her back."
"W-what...?" When I regained consciousness, I saw a gray-white female cat and a dark brown male cat with ginger markings.
I think they are cats that originally lived in the forest. So, am I being brought back to the area where forest cats belong?
"You're awake...! Thank you ancestors!" The gray-white female cat smiled and said, "Oh... I should introduce myself first."
"Well...I..."
"I am Vanilla. He is my...um, friend-Cedar."
"Hello..." Xuesong responded with a calm face, and it didn't seem like he was so welcoming to me.
"...Hi, I'm Ash." I think so. I'm just a "house cat". "Uh... can you tell me how I got here? I don't remember."
"Oh, of course. Because I found you seriously injured and passed out in the forest, I brought you back for treatment." Vanilla replied, "You quickly fell into a deep sleep and gradually got better."
"Yeah, luckily you're awake." Xuesong said, looking a little impatient.
"Um...wait, where is my collar?"
"Oh, you mean that blue thing? I removed it for treatment..." Vanilla said apologetically, "If that's important to you-"
"No! It doesn't matter..." I shook my head. I don't need anything to tie me down!
"Okay, you've been here for a long time, maybe it's time for you to leave." Cedar said.
"cedar!"
"He is right, I am not suitable to stay here any longer."
"At least let me take you home. It's too early for you to walk alone in the forest." Vanilla said, "Where do you live?"
｢……｣
"Oh, you poor thing, you don't have a place to live, right?" Vanilla thought for a moment, "Then you can live with us! No problem, Cedar?"
"What?! Let her get out of here!" Xuesong gritted his teeth and roared, his face getting darker, "We don't even know this cat is..."
"Cedar! Are you willing to let her wander alone? She is only a little bigger than a kitten!"
"..." Cedar was silent, and Vanilla quickly laughed dryly.
"Well, Ash...if you don't mind, you can live with us."
"I don't... if he, um... doesn't like my presence."
"Oh, come on. He'll agree, right?"
｢……｣
"That...okay." I finally gave in. But in this way, food, clothing, housing and transportation should be at least guaranteed to a certain extent...right?
