*Your spirit starts to wane as much as your legs with each strained step you take. With each passing moon, you have counted the endless nights that you have continued on your claimed journey… a journey that still remains a mystery to even yourself. You pause for a moment, lifting your head to gaze into the midnight sky—a slight warm breeze rustles your fur, and the shadowed grasses beneath your paws. The thousands of tiny stars sparkle their majesty, cradled in the embrace of the cosmos; nurturing them, encouraging them to blaze their ever-lasting fires. You sigh and look down at the ground again, almost envious*

*You have your individual reasons for being Lone, possibly those that you would want to push away, deep into your mind so it all seemed like a bad dream. You look around yourself, the full moon above casts it’s beams onto the strange and unfamiliar territory you stand upon. Suddenly, a ghostly mist surrounds your paws, swirling and thick, it engulfs the ground, making it seem like you stand on a dark cloud. The mist suddenly seems to become heavier, and spreads. Your ears fall for a moment*

This isn’t right…

*You leap away from where you stand, and start to run, blinded by the mists that now surround your entire body. You turn around in full circles and try to escape the dreaming prison, but only entangling and loosing yourself more and more. Suddenly, you look ahead—a great barrier made of huge boulders, as large as a mountain reaches out from the tip of the mist, escaping it. You stare at the barrier for a moment, something inside of you calling out to explore it’s hidden secret*

*Your legs wearily drag you to the fortress wall, taking the first step onto the smaller boulders that line the bottom. With determination blazing like flames in your soul, you start to ascend the barrier. Your breathing becomes heavy, your muscles weak from lack of food and strain as you scale closer and closer to the top*

*As you turn your head for a split second, you catch the silhouette of a creature soaring across the waxing moon. You pause for a moment from your hike, and gaze at the majestic figure, gliding with all the grace of the heavens. As the large wings on its slender feline body flap, the moonlight catches the tints and luster of the creature’s wings: glorious silver primary feathers, and shinning golden secondary feathers. The mysterious figure suddenly stops, however, and floats in midair, staring in your direction. The silence of the moment thrills and chills you, as the stranger begins to advance slightly closer to you, observing. Before taking off with all the elegance of her first flight, you see the shine of her unique and radiant sea-foam green eyes*

*As the silhouette disappears behind the barrier, your curiosity is aroused even more. With persistence, you take the last step, and stand triumphantly on the edge of the barrier, peering down into its valley. You’re speechless for a moment. Never have your eyes feasted on such splendor and beauty of a kingdom such as this: Deserts, ice caves, mountains, cliffs, swamps, forests, jungles, water falls… even a volcano! All sharing the same mother kingdom!*…