Frisky

Frisky was my cat. She was black and white. One day she went into the woods and never came back. This is a story about where she went.

Waiting. Waiting. I looked up at the stars and moon. They seemed to be calling to me. "Shadow, Shadow." How annoying that the stars and moon knew my secret name. They can be very annoying, you know. Always chattering.
Most cats are magical. That's an understatement. But some cats are more magical than others. I'm one of them.
Have you ever looked into a fire and seen a wavy part right above it? That's a doorway between the world of the not magical and the world of the magical. It's a doorway between my home and this place where I was held captive.
My people wouldn't mind if I left. Sure, they'd be sad for a while. But they'd get over it. Maybe not for twenty years, but eventually.
I ran to the doorway that was in the house- the washing machine. I popped the door open and jumped inside- straight through the doorway.
I landed in a field hard. Ouch- I'd forgotten how rough the journey was. It had been fifty years since I'd been here, if you counted in human years. In cat years, it had been... six months? Maybe a year. I doubted it.
Huge stone walls rose up on either side of the field. A small hole was in one side. Only a small cat like me could fit through it. I squeezed myself out of the field and into the open air. Magic air is so much better than non-magic air. I filled my lungs and took off running faster than a non-magic cheetah could. I streaked over the land, my paws barely touching the ground, until I saw it.
Gold City. My home.
I ran, slower this time, to the gates. The guards let me inside.
"SHADOW!!!!!!!!"
It was Isabel's voice. I spun around and rushed over to her. "Isabel!"
Isabel was smiling as only a cat can. "I thought that you'd decided to stay in that place! How could you stand being there for eight months?"
Eight months. I had been close.
"I had very nice people. I thought that I was content there. But last night the moon ans stars called me. I had to come back."
Isabel purred. I looked around, and that's when I noticed that we were the only cats in sight. Everybody else was a different animal, mostly... dogs.