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If there was one thing Cat recognized, it was the pain only bitter memories could inflict.
On this island her own past seemed so long ago. And she had nothing – no signs or proof it had even existed. Not a single token. Every stone, mark, sign or trinket on her came from somewhere else than her home with the Goldsteins.
For a moment it too showed on her – the bitterness. And then she removed it. Replaced it with a smirk.
“Well, mate, I will totally do my best to calm down, then,” she said to Blake with a fabricated cheerfulness. “I calm _down_, and you don’t roar when I jump _up_. Ready?”
And then she was off.
In a fluid movement Cat jumped up to a nearby branch. Swung further upwards like an Olympic with a gymnastic bar. And landed on the neighbor tree, as if gravity didn’t apply to her.
“Tell you what. I say what _I_ want.”
She balanced on a thick branch and approached Blake. Looked into his eyes - one yellow, one not. Only at the edge, less than two meters from the one he sat on, did she continue her words.
“I want you to help me with something. You see the way I came from, to the east?” she pointed briefly. “There’s a ruin, not 500 meters from here. I left something there. If you go with me, and don’t ask questions until we’re there. I’ll make it worth your while, mate. You might wanna change back though. There is only one pace - my pace.”
Giving the mysterious creature, Blake, a moment to think, she sat down and crossed her legs. It was in moments like these she rubbed the amulet on her neck with the symbol of “freedom” in Kanji.
It was not often she let anything get this close. Not unless she wanted something.
But the east had been a concern ever since she left the forsaken ruins there.