God humans are stupid.

I mean it with all due respect… however little that my be.

I mean, SERIOUSLY! Here I am watching one of the bigger ones about to leave on some stupid dangerous mission! And even then, the other humans are training to go on one as well. To make matters even more confusing, they are EXCITED for it?

Yeah, there is a reason that I have to stay and protect these idiot humans.

The sun feels warm and light on my fur. It helps me remember the first time I found these morons…

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I used to live in the forest on my own. I had to hunt my own food, find my own water, and bathe my own fur.

I was actually in the middle of hunting a really plump mouse that would have been a perfect meal, when an explosion ripped through the trees.

Ok, it wasn’t ACTUALLY an explosion. There was no fire or accelerant, but most of the nearby trees were absolutely decimated in less than halft of a second.

It was annoying more than anything because that beautiful juicy meat either got spooked or blown away with the greenery.

Anyways, I dug my claws into the ground to give myself a little bit more stability so I stuck around.

When the dust cleared there were two of those humans throwing their limbs around and hitting eachother. A classic human fight, which is way more petty than a cat fight, so I stuck around to watch the silly show.

One of the humans flung the other human right high and far, and the forest was quiet once again.

And then THAT human passed out.

These stupid humans have no idea how to regulate themselves. NO IDEA WHATSOEVER of how to simply take care of themselves.

So, being the naturally benevolent and kind cat that I am, I walked over to that human and did what I could.

First: I batted at his face until he starting opening his eyes.

Second: I started telling him off about how reckless he was and how he should be grateful that I took time out of my day to help him.

Third: I started pushing his face so he would roll over and get up.

Fourth: I walk and he follows to the nearest group of human dens.

Fifth: He gets other humans to help him and I go back to hunting.

Okay, that fifth step was what I was PLANNING to happen, but it didn’t happen quite like that.

The human picked me up and went inside one of the human dens. Normally I would be appalled at the audacity of such an action, but decided to spare the human until he was well enough to take it. Inside the den, another human put the first human on a soft, flat surface and gave me a small bowl of fish. Normally, I would sniff at such a lowly offering, but considering how hard it is to get fish in the forest, I bestowed my grace once again and accepted the feeble amount of goodness.

I decided to stick around until the human I found was able to get off the soft surface. Since that was the only comfortable thing in this den and the human was on the majority of it, I took it upon myself to have a nice cat nap on the human’s chest as a compromise.

Almost as soon as I woke up, though, the human was awake! He was just staring at me in awe.

I jumped off so he could get up and watched as he sat up and held his hands out to me.

I know that he wanted to thank me for helping him heal, so I let him.

Unfortunately, that led to him carrying me from one group of dens to another that ways on the top of a VERY tall mountain.

It was there that I was able to witness a bunch more humans just as stupid as this one.

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I couldn’t with a good conscious leave them all to their whims. So I’ve been here ever since.

And now another human is leaving.

I stretch before I walk over to be bestowed upon his shoulders for the journey. After all, I am a blessing.