Greatwater Lake all cats are gray at night

open to sibs + anyone allowed near the den

When Liezhal’s eyes opened for the first time, it was in the middle of night. No fanfare there.

When they opened the second time, it was much of the same: darkness, stillness, business as usual.

But when they opened a third time, the sun was rising and the den was just beginning to fill with an alien glow that turned the girl’s world from black to smoky. Instead of immediately searching for a teat as she usually did, Liezhal started using her bleary new vision to examine the differences in the shadows before her.