ZOE
After jumping out of Ruth's hands, her cat strolled down the roads of Vincardine. The street male cats who were on her watch since she began coming with Ruth at Mr Cooper's shop, followed her.
They tried wooing the black and white beauty with golden eyes, but she did not spare them even a glance. She turned her head away from them, ignoring their calls for mating. She walked proudly in her head in the clouds.
The male cats followed her to some distance but then stopped when their territory was about to end. Even those street animals knew not to cross the line of the woods.
But brave or mad, whatever it was, Ruth's cat strutted to enter the woods. She yawned, opening her mouth wide, then licked the part of her whiskers with her tongue.
She walked on her fours, looking around the tall trees and the ground which was covered by fallen dry leaves, grass and weakened branches of those trees.