Katie's Cabin

[Katie Monori]

Katie Monori finished the transformation stage from dracon to human and rested her hands on her knees in a bent standing position. She slowly stood up to an erect stance to adjust into her new physical self and took a few, slow, full breaths. She lazily steps across her violet and silver dressed bedroom to the rear window. Gazing through the glass she sees the familiar forest she often relaxes in. Not far into the trees is a large pond she regularly sunbathes in as a human. She sees no purpose in getting a tan on a scaley body. She tried, but found it more attractive on her human skin.
The forest gets pretty dark not far past the pond, but she loves to just frolic and stroll by herself through it. She daydreams a lot, in her cabin lying in her bed in the morning, as she sunbathes and as she walks through the forest. She adores all the vast amounts of creatures that live in the forest behind her house. She tries to get close to every safe creature she can and shares her daydreams with them. The dangerous ones she keeps her distance, but always likes to see them. She swears the animals she tells her daydreams to sometimes actually listen to her.
She hadn't always felt so lovingly toward animals. She grew up with a father who liked to hunt all animals he could and would take her with. They lived many miles from where she lives now, but by similar forest. She had never thought much about the animals, but was never vicious.
Up until she was thirteen was she a hunter. One morning those several years ago in early fall she woke up to a hurt, wild raccoon just outside her bedroom window. She felt compelled to go outside and help him. For two months she took took care of him and quickly developed a love for him, even if he would pilfer small things from the yard and hide them. The colored mask across his eyes seemed to form a V, so she called him Vori, a name that wasn't just a letter. Katie's father and mother would never let Vori sleep inside, but was thoughtful enough not to hunt him. One night got strangely cold and she could hear a rucous building outside her bedroom window. She awoke from the sound and knowing there had been hunters around the area, hastily got out of bed and out the back door in her pajamas and bare feet to make sure he was safe and that he didn't wander off to steal something shiny as he could get in the hunters' path. She was halfway across the lawn after searching his porch bed when she saw him scampering off into the darkness amongst the trees. There was enough moonlight to see her way slowly through the forest, but she could never find him before the faint bows and arrows started going off not far ahead. She called after him and for the hunters to hold their arrows, but she found them as they were firing away at Vori. Screaming for the hunters to stop, she carelessly took off in their line of fire to Vori. The hunters quickly ceased shooting their arrows and escaped into scatters deeper into the forest. She wasn't able to salvage Vori's life before he died. Yet the result of finding such a sweet friend made her forever hold the forest creatures dear.