The sun barely rose over the distant mountain crest into a ruby colored sky with thin cobweb clouds. The rains would come before the end of the day or so the sky predicted. The dancing blades of grass reaches for the young sunlight, ready to let it take with it their early morning dew. The plain was teeming with life this morning, frantic and random. grasshoppers propelled with leaps and bounds daring to reach for the heavens.

"They were so careless and playfull", Chezni though to herself as her eyes widened as if to drink in the morning sun they had yearned for over the long and sleepless night. She had slept... Had she slept? Had she walked all night? Her eyes did not feel as heavy as those that had lacked the proper rest. They were not tired eyes that rejected the sun or hid from its rays. No, they opened wide and greedily swallowed the newborn sun like a babe drinks greedily with its lips wrapped around its mother's teat. She watched the bee plunge headlong into the cavity of a tulip and bathe in it's rich nectar. Her heart was calmed by nature.

Nothing but the sounds of nature and her well worn soft leather sandles. Nothing for what seems like eternity. Her legs did not tire. Her lungs did not burn for lack of air. As the sun rose in the sky predictably, so too would the wanderer step along the path. Some believed her to be a ghost, some believed her to be the daughter of a god, some thought her to be a trick of the eye. One thing is for sure... She is Chezni the wide green eyes and she travels without destination or home.

Wide green eyes across a field. They watch the swallow take wing, they watch the sun begin to gain strength and rise higher in the sky. Chezni continues to walk at her meager pace along the trampled down path. Her mind wanders as she passes along the winding path. The path ever changes but yet it is the only constant she has known. For as long as she can remember, there have been only two. Herself and the path... or had they been one? She had become the path and the path had become her. She chose not to think, this was always her custom. Instead, she walked her pale lips curling up slightly on the corners in a peacefull grin. She emptied her mind and all she could hear was bliss. The eternal humm and pulse of the earth beneith her feet and the life that surrounded her in every nook and cranny of the grassy plain.

Raven Silently walked down the path way with her camera, She has wandered astray from her home to takes photos. He black hair twirled around her as the wind picked up. Few leaves from the trees fell, they crunched underneth he small feet as she walked slowly admireing the place around her. She heard soft pacing raps and glanced up to see a younge lady walking down the path way. She admired her from afare and hid in the bushes. The way the girl walked made raven fancy her. She quickly hide herself in the bushes, If she were to tell her father that Raven was out taking photos again shed be in trouble. She watched as the lady softly smiled to her self. Raven huged her camera tighter and watched.before spotting a huge spider and jumped out of the bush shrieking.

A small black cat sat under a tree, licking the last traces of the iron-tasting blood from its paws. Feathers and bones lay strewn before her. The swallow had apparently risen early. It flew across the nearby field and stopped under the trees, rooting around after a worm while most other birds still slept silently. The cat was delighted to find a bird so groggy and distracted, and stalked and killed it easily. A few more birds came a few minutes later to peck out worms from the same mud, but the cat already had her prize and left them alone.

Now, satisfied, she wondered in the gathering grey of twilight where she would bed down for the day. It smelled like it might rain, so she should find somewhere nice and protected, to stay warm and dry. Then a shriek. She dropped her head between her paws and skittered under a bush, twitching the end of her tail. Curious as ever, she crept to seek the source of the sound, keeping to the underbrush for cover. Her yellow eyes flashed when the fresh sunlight struck them.

Chezni stood silent as she heard a voice. So long had it been since she had heard the sound of a human vocalization. Her eyes darted about like dragon flies over a pond, looking for the source. Her expression still oddly serene and not at all startled. Her Green orbs fell on the shape of the young woman. She eyed her up and down pausing to puzzle over the odd object in her hand with a furrowed brow.

Her teeth clamped lightly on her bottom lip as she observed this person. So strange a posture she had, With her head tilted and her hands fidgeting inside her belled sleeves, her fingers twirling around one another. Her long black hair spilled out from under her blue velvet hood untamed and unbrushed to the point where it fell in long round matted locks. Still... she said nothing. Silently she watched.

Igok quickly hid in a bush when he heard a scream. He had been travelling besides the road, following it but not stepping on it. His yellow eyes peered out into the world through the branches and leaves. His mouth was wide open as he carefully scanned the environment. He noticed the shimmer of two other yellow eyes hiding behind the leaves of another brush. The corners of his mouth curled up a little as he watched the cat.

Cat's did not sound like that though. They went meow, Igok knew. His gaze followed the path for as far as he could without leaving his hiding place. Quite a distance away he saw something which might be a human. It wasn't looking in his direction so he leaned forward a little to take a better look. It was a girl and she was silently looking at something. Igok looked at her with big, dumb eyes and didn't move a muscle as curiousity and fear fought for control over his body.

He decided not to approach the other traveller but to see what she would do.

The cat flinched at the sound of something large and lumbering trundling into the undergrowth near her. Finding it, she stared back into the broad yellow eyes with unbridled fascination. With another glance, she identified the screamer on a nearby path. She smelled yet another on the breeze, standing not too far behind, out of sight. A year in the wild had taught her fear, and she was dismayed at so many creatures suddenly catching her off guard. Yet two of these were human, whose comforts she had missed for so long. Caught between the two instincts, she decided to climb a tree, to stay within sight but out of reach. She was pretty sure the other animal nearby had looked at her like it was going to eat her, anyway.

Decided, she carefully slunk back away from the yellow eyes. Keeping under the ferns and bushes, she skittered without a whisper to a nearby oak and clawed up to a perch on a low branch, still twitching her tail.

Raven quickly glanced at the lady she was hiding from.
Her eyes locked with her stare, She let out a gasp and blushed bright red
"I am sorry." She mummbled softly.
"I didnt mean to bother you."
Raven hide behind a curtin of her long black hair, her eyes glanced up at the Lady.
from what she could see The lady was quiet pretty, She could use new cloths...a bath or two...maybe a brush?But that didnt matter..
'raven she could be a freak!she could rape you., ' She thought to her self..Her hands clutched onto her black camera. as she stared back

Chezni watched the girl still silent for a moment or two. Her mouth opened as if ready to speak but she still said nothing. She heard the words but they almost didn't register. So unpracticed she was in the ways of speech she thought it better to not reply. Seeing the girl look a little bit frightened, she took two giant steps back. Her small baby hands lifted to her cheek as she brushed her mattet hair out of the way allowing her to peer out from under her hood at the girl. Her eyes still watched the item the girl held to her breast like a new born babe. She searched in her mind for something she had seen... It was not there. She wondered what it was.

Did it play music? Music... she remembered music. Her eyes fogged as she drifted off into a memory long past and a gentle melody. She recollected plump red lips blowing the seeds from a dandelion puff and a magical song hung in the air as they dance away ready to impregnate the earth below with their new bodies. She began to hum, her voice almost sounded airy and unused... as though she had not spoken for centuries.

Raven watched as the girl took a few steps forward.
She looked ath the camrea aginst my chest...Well, that or she was looking at my chest... Her eyes glazed over as she began humming,
Something about her voice was diffrent...Something about it calm Raven..She smiled and sat down on the path admiring the girl.
She closed her eyes, and smiled. Letting the wind blow her brown hair around.
Her Gray eyes flutterd open and looked around at the green bushes, she had been chasing a beautifull black cat to get a photo of it...Wonder where it had gone?

Now another person entered Igok's view. This one was also a girl. Where did all these people keep coming from?

He looked around him, wary for a trap of some kind. It wouldn't be the first time they'd tried to hurt him. The only other living things around were the cat and some birds. He looked at the small feathery creatures as they fought over a worm.

He grinned as one of them flew away with it, shortly followed by the others.

One of the humans gabbled a little, and the other drew back. The cat was probably safe from them; they didn’t look like hunters. If they sat down for food, they might leave a few scraps behind. She still couldn’t see the yellow-eyed thing though, so she started climbing higher up for a better look. She was proud of her skill in climbing trees; she slithered squirrel-like straight up the trunk, and glided demurely to the end of a long, thin branch that swayed in the breeze above the treetops.

Her eyes widened when she felt the bough give under her weight. It was dead and couldn’t support her. She spun around to get back to the trunk before it was too late, but with a sharp Crack! the branch snapped. She yowled plaintively as she began hurtling to earth. Stupid cat. She should have paid better attention. Oh well. She landed as well as all cats do, but the fall was still quite far. She lay stunned for half an instant. As she rose, she realized she couldn’t put weight on her back left leg; she’d twisted the ankle. Now she was genuinely alarmed. She needed to get away, as fast as possible. She found the path and started hobbling down it with all her might.

A startled scream escaped Igok as the wailing little furbal landed on the ground just a short distance away from him. He looked at it with wide eyes as it just stood there for a second. An insecure smile appeared on his face as it stood there. Then it darted off, quickly discovering the pain in its leg and limping on.

He stood up from his crouch, which made him only slightly taller, and followed the small creature. It seemed to be scared of him but not in the way that people usually were. It was scared of him just for not being a cat.

"Good kitty." He said in an attempt to calm it down. "Being scared for no reason."

The odd, blue man went on all fours to keep up with the desperate cat

Chezni stopped her humming well after the sound of the crack and thud. She watched the cat run along the path with unblinking eyes. She also caught a faint glimpse of something... blue. She wondered what was blue... The blue jay is blue but what else is blue. She racked her brain as she stood there so confused. She watched the cat again as she slowly stepped toward the direction it ran. her lips moved as if to speak but still nothing came out.

"What else is blue? What else is blue?"

She mouthed the words but they did not escape her long dormant voice box. So much had happened this day so far it was a day like no other in her recent memory. Coming across another on the path... another on the path. She remembered the girl. She turned to her slowly like a magpie reluctantly turning its gaze from shiny things. She rubbed the bulbs of her fingers on the smooth circular patch in the palm of her left hand. It had swollen today... just now. Her lips pressed together as she felt over raised scar She remembered the time something pressed through. Or did it press through? She sighed quick and soft almost like a low hiss and dropped her arms.

Ravemn watched as she rubed her left palm and wlked closer ignoring her hiss.
" Its swollen. Maybe some ice will help it." She smiled and remberd the limping cat.
"and we can fin the cat and help him...and figure out what the blue thing was?maybe feed you and them.." She smiled softly


-ill be gone for a few days

The cat started to despair of escape; whatever-it-was was too fast; the pain grew worse. Blood pounded in her ears. She stumbled and fell. The thing had gabbled human-like anyway, so she might survive. Either way, if she couldn’t run, she had to do what she might to fight. She pulled herself up and wheeled clumsily to face it, eyes flashing. As her tail flicked in the air, she fluffed herself out and hissed a little halfheartedly. She didn’t feel very intimidating.

Igok recoiled from the small, furry creature as it took on a more threatening pose. His big eyes looked at it hesitantly.

"Kitty?" He muttered.

The blue creature became aware of the voices coming for behind him. They were still far away and he could barely make out the words but they were there. He crawled backwards, away from the small cat, before glancing behind him. He could see the people and they could see him. A paralyzing fear took hold of him and his eyes grew even bigger than before.

He whined pathetically.

Chezni seemed puzzled at first by the girls words. "Ice" she couldn't remember... so long had it been since she had spoken and so long since she had heard words she had forgotten what they sounded like. She felt heat in the palm of her hand.. not an inflamation persay more of a soothing heat.

She composed herself and nodded to the girl as she looked to the other creatures. Her eyes squinted up into little half moons as she noticed the cat and the blue man were out in the open. She wondered what he was Big and blue. She connected him to this word "ice" Maybe that's what the girl meant. Perhaps he is "ice" But how does a big blue man help with anything? She wanted to find out. She stepped along calm and sure as always.

Igok gasped in horror as one of the two people began to come closer. He looked back at the cat, still as threatening as before, and blamed it for his current misfortune.

"No hurting Igok!" The man-like creature shouted in despair as the girl's wide, green eyes settled on him. "Igok is good!"

He crawled onto his feet, staring at the approaching figure with his fists weakly in front of him. He bared his teeth in an unconvincing snarl.

As the cat saw her pursuer relent and turn its back, she felt rather proud of herself. Considering danger averted, Fearsome Warrior Cat attempted to start walking away again, but collapsed after only a few steps. She’d strained the leg further and it would hold no wait. Stymied, she started trying to drag herself, scrabbling on the hard-packed earth, but couldn’t tell if she was really moving at all. She started glancing furtively behind herself to make sure she was still safe from the blue human as she looked around for some other means to find a hiding-place.

Raven walked wiuth the girl to the blue man and cat.
"Its okay. We wont hurt you!"
She steped closer.
"Calm down..."

"No hurting?" Igok said and cocked his head. His gaze quickly switched between the two girls.

"Kitty." He said quietly and pointed in the direction of the fleeing cat. "Hurt and scared."

Chezni watched the cat for a moment or two before stepping up to it.. it was as if she had totally forgotten everyone else was there.. Her eyes scanned the animal looking for obvious injuries. She felt compelled to kneel down next to it and reach out to it with her doll like hand. The circular scar in the center of her hand began to turn warm as the sunken object below it heated from beneith the skin. She remembered now... she remembered her power. She held her hand out about a foot from the cat, palm facing down, as if to ask for permission to advance.

Raven watched silently.
Glancing at the blue man and back to the girl and cat

Igok's eyes widened until it looked like they would almost pop out of his head. What was going on here? Never before had something like this happened to him and his small mind was unable to come up with an explanation, let alone predict what was going to happen.

"Igok is not understanding." He muttered.

So he just stared at it.