Finally she decided that she was perfectly capable of getting by on her own until she again found or created friends and family. She'd rather not start over again, not when somewhere in this wide world there were both of her created families, but if there was no other way she would get by.
So eventually she joined up with a travelling show, more like a circus than her old caravan but just as much like a family, and she feels immediately welcome among them. She is a freak, too, for all that it is less obvious.
Her inkstained fingertips draw interest; her tabby-striped hair that still grows inwith a burgundy, a colour never natural born, excites the younger members of her new workplace.
And, she figures, travelling this way she will eventually go nearly everywhere and potentially find one or both of her families to rejoin -- or at least know where they have gone, in the case of the group less likely to be constantly on the road, as she now is once again.
She had almost gotten used to a sedentary life, confined to naught but an island.
So eventually she joined up with a travelling show, more like a circus than her old caravan but just as much like a family, and she feels immediately welcome among them. She is a freak, too, for all that it is less obvious.
Her inkstained fingertips draw interest; her tabby-striped hair that still grows in
And, she figures, travelling this way she will eventually go nearly everywhere and potentially find one or both of her families to rejoin -- or at least know where they have gone, in the case of the group less likely to be constantly on the road, as she now is once again.
She had almost gotten used to a sedentary life, confined to naught but an island.