Twos company, peeping spirits a crowd

Kite trotted alongside Thorn, her cat on her other side. She walked with confidence, despite the annoying sunlight that forced her to wear her eye mask. The thick material protecting her from the pain. “No?” she said, her voice a question as he asked if she knew the best part of the autumn. She raised her head, sniffing the air. “Are there lots of leaves around right now?” she asked, forced to use the mostly-stranger as her eyes.

Was he suggesting they play that game now? She would have to pace the distance and touch the leaf pile to know where they were, running blindly could be scary, but sometimes it could be fun, too. And maybe the leaf pile would be a softer landing then she could usually expect. “Do you think this funny autumn messed with the life cycle of some of the animals? Like, the ones that would hibernate?” she’d heard a little about hibernating creatures. Digging into a dark cave and sleeping away the winter sounded rather boring.


"Kite"