A Cat's Guide to Saving the Kingdom: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure (Dragoncat Book 3) by Chris Behrsin

Author:Chris Behrsin [Behrsin, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

24

Ghost Ta'ra

I hit hard solid ground. The impact was so strong that I thought I’d broken every single bone in my body. I yowled out in pain, then for a while, I lay there, unable to budge an inch. Again, there was no heat or cold in this place. There was no wind, no sensation of anything other than my muscles throbbing in protest. There were no glowing outlines of objects to see my way by.

Nothing surrounded me but darkness, and a horrible thought came to me. I was dead. Dead, and perhaps even about to be erased from eternity.

I considered turning into a chimera. It could probably take the pain better than I. It was far, far tougher than this fallen Bengal who didn’t even know who he was. Whiskers, I couldn’t even claim to be like my ancestors, the great Asian leopard cats. I was an imposter – a fraud. There was no way I could live up to their legacy – the great agile beasts that stalked through jungles and caught anything they wanted to eat. I was nothing; I was worthless; and I belonged in this vacuous, dark place.

With such thoughts rolling around my mind, I lay there for a while, pity consuming me. Perhaps this was how you got lost in this place. You first got lost inside your own mind, and then you forgot who you were.

“Get up, Ben.” The voice floated over the air to my ears like pollen on a warm breeze. It didn’t belong to my crystal, nor did it belong to Aleam. It didn’t belong to the mistress who had looked after me in South Wales, either. Yet, it had a sweet familiarity to it. “Ben, you can’t lie there forever. But you know that already…”

“I can’t move,” I said, trying to work out why I knew that voice so well. But my head was throbbing, and I couldn’t think straight.

“Of course you can. All injuries in here are only in your mind, and you didn’t just really fall from the back of your dragon. It was just a vision, and now that you’ve experienced it in your mind, I really hope you’ve learned not to fall like that again. If you ever do, remember, cats always land on their feet. You taught me that, remember? ‘Make sure your feet are always facing the ground before you touch down against it… A cat who cannot be graceful doesn’t deserve to be called a cat at all.’”

I blinked in astonishment – slowly because my eyelids still felt incredibly painful to move. “Ta’ra… Is it really you? But that means…”

“Oh, don’t worry. I’m still alive in the real world. At least in most of the possible threads of time. You probably won't lose me yet.”

I groaned and then rolled over. I grimaced when I felt a sharp sting at my side. Though I couldn’t yet see Ta’ra, her familiar smell drifted over to me. She’d never quite smelled completely of cat. She’d

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