This was it.
This was the end of the road.
Funny, I always thought that I would go out fighting for Lightning Empire. Protecting Fausta or Theron or Eumenide or any of other countless felines I knew and loved. I always figured that it would be quick, a snap to the neck under fangs too sharp for me to escape from. The final moments filled with nothing but the rush of blood through my ears as the lights slowly faded from my vision. In some ways I thought that this kind of end would mean something. I had accepted my fate as an empire feline and would die fighting if I had to. Risking my life never seemed to mean too much for me.
This was... t