TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Junebug couldn't remember a lot of what happened. It all went so fast, as if time had been sped-up and it's puppets were only forced to kick their systems into overdrive in order to keep up. Her mama had been hurt; she could remember smelling the metallic blood, and how when she tried to ride on her back, she could feel a warm, wet substance clinging to her underbelly fur. There was clamor in the surrounding woods and mama suddenly told her to run, and that's what Junebug did. Her paws raced over the ground, and she would occasionally careen straight into a tree or a thorn bush and come out with scrapes and abrasions. Junebug didn't mind; this was what her mama told her to do, and her mama was always right. Junebug knew this for a fact.
Now, however, she was tired. Hours of jolting through the snow and frigid, wintry air had made her fatigued and now her paws ached and burned with the feeling of waning electricity. Slowly, adrenaline ceased to be produced and her heart stopped it's palpitations so that it now sat at a rest behind it's prison made of bone and cartilage. She trotted now, and while she could smell the faint scent of wildflowers left over from the season her mama described as 'Spring', the chilled breeze whisked away many of the scents that Junebug could use to determine her location within space. Instead, whenever she breathed in, she could feel the cold freeze her throat and plant icy crystals within her lungs, only to expel as a warm mist lost to atmosphere. She endured this torture in favor of padding along the meadow, one paw after the other, one step, two step, three st-
Junebug crashed into a cold, icy surface. Rebounding back from the collision with a new pound against her temple, she frowned in pain and donned a tragic expression, as if she couldn't take bumping into more unidentified objects. The texture of the thing was unlike anything she had ever felt before, and it had no noticeable smell, so the kitten, as white as the winter snow, was left in the dark, quite literally. Unsure of the breadth and width of the offending obstacle, Junebug took to climbing it, blindly propelling her self upward with no fear, for she could not possibly know she was rising in altitude unless she focused on the air becoming thinner.
