A lightly spotted cat groomed the blood-stained feathers from its lips and paws. The leftovers of its dinner, a half-eaten carcass of a swan goose, lay on the ground before it. The wing of goose had been almost as long as the cat from head to tail. The prey was a definite perk of the job.
Now clean, the cat padded down to the railroad tracks. Most of the people who saw it assumed it was feral, but a few exclaimed at the sight. After all, mountain cats like this one were not native to Onagawa. The cat ignored the stares and pointing fingers, intent on its destination. It followed the tracks to the station.
It wound between the legs of the people on the platform until it found a child guarding some luggage, his parents nowhere to be seen. It allowed the child to pet it and pick it up, A few minutes later, it led the child out of the station.
Later that day, the child crawled into one of the outflow pipes at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, chasing after his new pet.
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The Other World
FanfictionThe Spirit World and the Human World used to be one. Then humans turned away from the Earth, and the worlds split apart violently. Now, only splinters of space-time connect them. The bridges between the worlds are growing unstable. The fate of the w...
