In the Eyes of Dinah Clementine Butterfly Embry

Chapter 4: My Adventures Begin

I was smelling everything inside of the thing trying to see if that would give me a hint to when I heard and saw one of the ladies closing the top and then I was trapped! It was mostly dark in there except for a few holes in the top. It took a few moments before my eyes adjusted and I could see again. From what I could tell I was still in the same thing, and further continued my search to figure out what it was. I smelled and smelled every inch of the thing for a long time, (I just couldn't figure out what it was!) Then I decided that it was time to get out. But when I went to jump back out I remembered that I was trapped. In my desperate state of mind I started meowing.

My meow sounded weird to me as I didn't say much out loud. I had really only talked to some of the other cats near my cage, and to do that we didn't have to say anything loud enough for the humans to hear us. We have a much different type of language that only cats know.

I thought that it might help if I started clawing my way through the thing. That did nothing. Suddenly I felt very scared and alone. And as I sat there in the huge blanket of darkness I started to cry. I cried and cried hoping and wishing with all of my heart that the nice lady would come and rescue me. And then I heard footsteps coming down the hall. Oh at last! Someone is going to come and get me out of this horrible place. And you know who it was? It was the nice lady! When I heard her voice my heart nearly jumped right out of my chest and into her arms. I myself wanted to jump into her arms but I couldn't as I was trapped in the depths of despair (or in the thing). She walked closer until she was standing next to the thing that I was in. I could hear her breathing and heard her voice as she spoke to me.

"All right little one, it is finally time for you to go to your new home."

Then the thing started to move! I started to slide around as it was moving and the bottom of it was really slippery. Then I heard footsteps and thought the kind lady was walking away. She was going to leave me in this horrible place! But then I realized that she was walking with me. Whatever I was in had some way to carry me and she was taking me somewhere!

She seemed to walk and walk and walk and walk for what seemed like forever! But finally at last she stopped. Wherever she was there was lots of new smells. I kept my nose high in the air trying to figure out what I was smelling. In the end I figured out that lots of animals and humans had passed through this room leaving so many scents that it hurt my head just trying to detangle them from one another. But as we started walking I heard the lady say,

"Mr. Embry?"

Then someone replied,

"Hi! Is that her?"

"Yes, she is all ready. I just need you to go over to the service desk before I can hand her over and fill out some last minute paperwork."

"Oh okay, that's fine."

I waited in a room that I had never been in before for what I thought was quite a long time. I couldn't really tell what was going on even though I tried looking through the little tiny holes that were in the thing. The holes were so tiny that what I could see was blurry and smelling didn't help either. As I said there were so many smells in that place that all I got from that was a headache. So seeing that it was useless to try and do things I lay down and started wondering.

As I sat in the dark I started to think back to the other voice that I had heard when I came into the overwhelming room. As I started wondering who that voice belonged to I remembered the family that came to visit me about a week ago. I wondered if the voice belonged the father of that family. Then my mind wandered to other things like,

"What happened to my mother?"

"Did I have any siblings?"

"Would I ever find out these questions?"

"What did my mother look like?"

"When I do I get to go back to my cage?"

"When do I get to eat again?"

Then I heard someone bend over and pick me and the thing up. They started walking and when they stopped I once again smelled and heard the man. He took me from the other person said a few words and started walking. And that is when my adventure began.