A Little Bit of Everything

Chapter 12: Unfed

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The trees sway harshly as the wind punches them with its fury. The leaves fall and tangle up with each other and make this dazzling scenery.

Against the wind, besides the wallowing trees, are three kittens hovering over each other.

Its always like this, their life is torture since the very start.

But a man they learned to call Father saved them from the endless suffering. Only to suffer more when their father disappeared.

How is he by the way?

They want to know.

The three pairs of eyes glance at the setting sun. It's going to be night again, night is when monsters come hunting for them.

Humans, they can truly be scary as frick.

When the sun sets, they snuggle closer in their hiding spot. They can't create a fire since that will give them away, so only the warmth of each other can protect them.

They took turns staying awake and falling asleep.

Day and night, again and again. When will this endless cycle stop? When they finally feel no hope and just itching despair?

They want to know. They need to know.

When it was the little black kitten's turn, something feels so wrong yet so right. A deep sensation of mixed cold and warmth engage in his lower abdomen.

He went out to empty his bladder.

It would have been hard to sneak out and in again without the same level of stealth skills like his siblings. He just blow things up and studies mana.... So he's lucky..

Black is a good colour to go camouflage in the dark. He's glad his fur if black....

... So was his scales before.

When he successfully emptied his bladder, he went back to the hiding spot, pausing when familiar red was attached to a kid who's back is turned away from the black kitten.

The child already looks holy even just from the back.

Although,

Their clothing is torn and tattered, revealing the bruises and scars on the pale skin. Hair is poorly cut and .. is.... ?

Blood red hair is rare, extremely rare that only the red family can posses this. The black kitten only knows one person in the red family, well he knows a few but this one stands out, the pale skin also gives it away.

'Human?'

Is this the form that the GoD told them?

He needs to find out by looking at their eyes.

He moves in closer, hiding behind the shadow of the trees.

"I know you're there" a girls voice reached his fluffy kitty ears. "Don't worry, I don't eat animals and humans. But I'm also not a vegan."

He still stayed hidden, watching the child who might be even younger than him pick berries from a bush. She hums a tune while inspecting each berry she plucks out. Throwing the ones that look moldy or have worms.

"I am picking berries so my papa can eat!" She whisper shouts. Her voice sounds like flowers. "When I find him I am going to feed him a lot. He barely eats so this little star needs to feed him! I'll test it out if it's poisonous or not, don't wanna feed him poison. This little star is fine eating poison, it's a daily occurrence anyway." She mumbles the last sentence rather softly, unreachable to the kitten's fluffy ears.