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Crimson ribbons against a sea of green, swirling towards some darkened abyss. The ribbons stir and wake, pushing against nothing, moving against everything and staying tranquil and absolute. Stars fall, burning up the ice within, setting on top of the world as they are swallowed by the sun, showing their true colors as cowards. A mountain wiggling against its turmoil, twisting around to look at the crimson ribbons, breathing out cerulean bands of darkness. The darkness seems overwhelming but within it is everything and nothing, a silence so deep that it is incredibly mesmerizing. To look away is to be flooded with sensation, to see colors no eyes can see, to hear sounds no ears can hear and to know thoughts without words or sensations but through force alone. Here in the after there is a void that lacks the nothingness. The sky boils and begins to rain down, turning all the colors all the more vibrant and illusive. I try to move, but find my stance solidified in grass.

I struggle but find I am but a tree, whispering in the wind, watching the world go by with nothing to interact with. Suddenly I am running, chasing against a silver road that is being attacked by the ribbons, an overwhelming sense of hatred flooding me, pushing me back with each wave of water. I jump off the road and land in the water, neither sinking nor floating as it pulls me towards the nothingness beyond. I jump and I'm in a hallway with no lights and no walls yet everything is clear. I see myself in the distance and as I stare closely I notice it is as I was and not as I am. I chase after it, trying to reclaim what should be mine but as I move it moves with me, staying just as far away. When I stop it stops; when I move sideways it does the same; always staying the same distance from me. All the while a sort of laugh shouts down from the heavens, mocking me for my futility. Growing annoyed I turn around and see another me, this as I am. I chase this form as well but as I do so it becomes clearer and clearer, yet more distinct and further away as I get closer to where it is. It splits in parts, some going one way or another, changing down the path. As I reach the crossroads I look at all the paths. The me behind me is the same as it always has been, never moving closer or further away.

In front of me are several of me now. Each one with a different appearance. A few seem to have completed what I've been fighting against, some staying almost as I am now and a few turning back to human. I want to follow those last ones but whenever I try to focus the paths lose coherency. All falls and I hear the song cry without words, a shout so loud that no noise comes out. I turn and try to find the source of the silence, looking away from the darkness and back into the trees of desolation and color and sensation and find an eye staring at me. I can see the song running from it, fleeing for its life. Instinctively I rush towards the song, pulling against the ribbons binding me in place, racing towards that silver road once again, now dripping with a violet fluid, bleeding on the landscape below. The eye sends fear through me like I've never felt and my only desire is to help the song get away. The eye turns and the entire landscape changes. I reach the song and stop, the song stopping in front of me. I turn and kick it, pushing against it with all my might as the crying neither starts nor stops, the shouts of silence so deafening I have to cover my ears to not go deaf from them.

I offer myself to the eye, exchanging my life for the song and the eye moves without motion, without changing its location. It is always at the same place and yet has gotten closer, bigger yet easier to see all of in one instant. Shouting at it with all my might I rush forward again, my body once more my own as I try to punch the shapeless green eye, my body flying right through it as a door opens.

My head lifts and my eyes open, back in the world of solid shapes and predictable behaviors. I shake my head a bit to try and get my thoughts away from what I was just dreaming, a bit unnerved by some of the actions. Thinking is made even harder as the song wants to play, to be let free again. I push it back to keep my focus on what's going on. I move to the window, leaving the cloak and coat behind. There is a car in the driveway. I didn't think they would be back this soon. The sun has already begun to set and along the ground seems to be a thin layer of snow, more of it falling every moment. I rush and grab my coat, cursing myself for oversleeping again. I notice I didn't even put the money away and take care of that first, putting it back in the cloak pocket where I kept what was left. I rush to put the coat and cloak on as fast I can, my ears constantly focusing on the sound of a person walking through the house.

I don't have time to rebind my feet so I just grab all of the leather bindings and will carry them until I can get far enough away that I can tend to this issue. I ignore the box of cereal as it serves me no purpose at the time. I can smell the female human walking through the house, making comments and the sound of the speech means she knows that someone is in here. I suppose it'd only be natural and easy to figure out, considering I probably left tracks all over the place from any mud I picked up while it was raining and I never did bother to remember to close the back door. The sound of the human is getting closer so I move over to the landing at the far end of the stairs, crouching as low as I can. She walks up the stairs, a somewhat middle aged thing and as soon as I have enough clearance behind her I jump over the landing, dropping onto a step below her before bolting towards the front door.

She probably sees the motion more than hears the landing but turns around and sees me. I know this because she quickly reaches out and grabs at my cloak. I duck and push off, turning slightly to remove her grip before leaping towards the door and my escape.

"A tail?" she asks, causing me to frown as apparently my abominable appendage has decided to betray me at this moment. I bolt free of the building and quickly scan the area, trying to find a good place to get away from, the song's fervor making it extremely hard to think well. I remember seeing a sort of wood nearby that I could use. If nothing else it should give me some extra distance if not a place to hide. Once I get there I stop for a moment and take stock of my current situation. I can hear motion in the distance but it doesn't seem at all moving fast so it is just as likely to not be the person whose home I invaded as it is to be her. Knowing I have no need to keep running I find a good spot to tend to my feet and sit down. But as I pull out one of the bindings I notice a sort of scent in the air and clamp my hand over my nose as I try to block it out.

Of all the things to have to deal with why does that scent have to be here now. The song seems to have noticed the scent and is redoubling its efforts to take control. I can feel the hairs along my arm begin to rise up in the excitement and I know there's nothing I can really do about it. The scent of another fox always makes it much harder to resist the song as it always wants to greet another of its kind and this particular one is even harder to ignore as it is one I recognize. Crying out in exasperation as I know I'm slipping and there's nothing I can do. Making an effort to save the materials as best I can I rush to take off all of my things, the coat and cloak the easiest. The pants can wait as they are not in any danger but as my fingers are starting to become thicker and shorter grabbing at the material is all the harder every second. My size starts to shrink which makes my pants fall off on their own. It's getting a little difficult to breathe as my chest begins pushing forward and narrowing. Finally with one last desperate tug I get my head through the hole and remove myself from my clothes. I cringe as my back snaps a bit and I fall to four limbs, my thoughts getting hazy as I can tell that the song is starting to take control, some of the colors of the world fading out as my eyes begin to change. I bundle up the clothing as well as I can before I lose consciousness, as if I'm under a sedative and fall back asleep.

I stood and shake. My fur feels nice. It is warm. Snow falls on me. I don't mind. I'm warm. I'm fed. This little snow no problem. I taste snow on ground, get my fill. Sun going down. Is pretty. Dark Soon. See stuff on ground, strong scent of self. Must belong to Other. Other keeps many things. Other no like me anymore. I no know why. I like Other. Brushing felt good. I like brush. Other get mad if I lose stuff. No want Other mad. Want Other proud. I must protect stuff. Then Other be proud of me. I hear human come this way. Too big to bury, not enough time. I smell food in stuff. No meat. No hungry but bad smell bad. No want. I pull not meats out of bag. Prey can have. Many animals here. I push not meats away from stuff, around tree. No want other animals ruin stuff. I mark stuff, let others know is mine.

Happy I trot away. I want find Friend. Friend smell close, but no here. I bark at Friend. No get reply. Friend must be hunting. No bark when hunting. I sniff at ground. Friend go one way. Self come from other way. Bad Smell come here not long ago. No want be near Bad Smell. Like Bad Smell go away from Friend. I head in same direction of Friend. Is Friend's home. I go say hello to Friend when in Friend's home. No need find Friend soon. Not tired. I have fun. I run, feel ground below feet, feel air against fur and whiskers. I hear bark in distance. It is Friend's. I bark in response. I am happy. Friend knows I'm here. I go have fun. Running fun. Not enough for long. I smell things, find stuff from them. Bad Smell not here long. Only here and no more.

I hear sound nearby. I see Friend step out. I no expect Friend come see me. I am happy but not sure what do. Friend come close. We smell each other. Not used to Friend, Friend seems very friendly today. We rub cheeks, feel each other. Friend's breath smells of rat. I huff then begin run. We play in snow. It much fun. Eventually I get hungry and leave Friend. Friend go get water.

Though I am thirsty bit, not big need. Want food now. Water later. I walk back towards tree area with Other's stuff. Lots of things there. On way near human home I see rabbit eating plants. I give chase. It run but not fast enough. I pounce and find in teeth. I am happy. No eat here. Too many humans around. I hold in mouth. Blood covers tongue. Is tasty. I enter tree area. No humans see me here. I play with food. Toss it in air and play catch. It is much fun. Once soft I start eat. It is very tasty. I am happy. Feel very full. No need hunt for while. Decide head to Other's stuff. Want find small den sleep in for bit. I stop, turn head. Hear sounds nearby. Big thing. Might be hunter. No want be eaten. It keep walking. No know I here. I hear sounds, human songs. I calm down. Humans no want eat me. I no know why humans like being loud.

I find place where stuff should be but no find stuff. I sniff at ground. Maybe stuff moved bit. Find gap in snow where stuff was. Scent of human next to it. Why humans take stuff? Humans no know is mine? Other be mad at me if no get stuff back. I follow scent back to its home. Find same den as slept in earlier. I not happy. I move in close and bark at den. Want stuff back. Stuff is Other's. Stupid human take Other's things. I get no response. I walk up to big flat thing and scream at it. No reply. I mad. I piss on flat thing to show how mad I am. I walk around den, find thing Other used to enter. It still closed. Dark inside. No sounds of motion. I no able to get in. I come back later.