Chapter 113

Chapter 113
Waiting for the water to calm down, she stopped to inhale the air around her as her lungs were trying to regain themselves and on instinct, she took a minute to watch her reflecting image on it and what it was.
A figure that was starting to clear itself from all the blurring, waiting for the water to calm down and reveal in front of her: a cat.
And there it clicked something inside on her. As in instinct she reached behind trying to hide from the river to take a minute to focus from the sudden headache going on top of her and the first image of the woman who she followed in the galaxy appeared in front of her.
She became conscious as she knew she was there for a reason, for a greater reason and still she could not bring herself to become physically conscious. All this was starting to drain her mentally.
\-“Now you opened your eyes to see child!” she said in a soothing voice and suddenly she became a spectator or it, witnessing with her eyes:
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“There once was a group of gypsies that used to run all over the Mediterranean with their circus to perform in all different lands. They were famous because they were well known for their colorful costumes, exotic dances, sword playing and, of course, the most famous of all in their performances were a pair of cats that were used during their dance, fire exhibitions and fight-shows. 

The female was a white cat with black marks on her ears and a heart-shaped mark on her tail that sometimes also stood with the fortune-teller lady and the dancing girls. The male was a black cat that used to perform for both dancing and sword fights. He also used to be near the oldest fortune-teller lady. Their elastic bodies adapted in harmony with each other so that everyone would love and pay just to see them together, especially kids who wanted to play with cats or just touch their soft fur. 

Both were treated well together with the other animals that were used for their performances. Unfortunately, after so many years coming around the continent with their circus, the gypsies were hated by some villagers, who happened to think that evil fortune had come to their village due to the black cat, so one night they set fire to the gypsy carriage when some people were inside, including the female cat, dying in it. Well, every gypsy should have a black cat around them just to keep evil spirits away from them. Irony, isn't it?

Desperate, the gypsies immediately left to go somewhere else to recuperate themselves and their circus, but nothing was like before. The male cat was so depressed about losing its partner that it no longer had the will and desire to perform as before till slowly dying and to be buried by the gypsies……

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Then something clicked for her. She saw a lifetime in front of her eyes like watching a movie from a big screen in such a short time and she felt the connection. A puzzle was revealed in front of her eyes, and her mind was now clicking with the event. She felt and knew that that was real.
The emotions, the pain, the people she knew painted hard during the fire, burning in their own misery, due to some evil people. The ignorance that lit their evil side to do such horrendous actions. Sufferings in that moment made every sin or whatever they went through unworthy. Who could be glad to witness such a thing, without experiencing it in their skin first, she thought to herself.

-“Now you opened your eyes child.” The voice beside her startled her from her thoughts.
She recognized the voice now, it was a familiar presence, but she still could not find the place where she had heard her or seen before. She was not there; that’s for sure in that past life.
\-“Follow me!” the voice said and she did as say, and then suddenly she found herself again in the space surrounded by million gazing stars. Now they were not just shining, but their light had created some beautiful shadow color to fill the space and give another meaning.
What impressed her was mostly that she was not a cat anymore in space, she could not see a physical form to describe herself yet.
And while she was dwelling in this, suddenly another journey started to take her in another place.

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\-“So tell me, mighty priestess, why do I often have this dream recently” – A girl dressed in beautiful attire that resembled more to a warrior with her long dark braids. -”I would wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and would be sleepless then. Does this have anything to do with the fate of our people?”  

\-”Oh child, my dear Zuleaica, I saw all the things that you with your eyes saw. Such a sad story of two feline lovers had to end this way only for some fools. As I had predicted before, you were a cat in your previous life, so it's up to the animal belongings that you have inherited your warrior spirit. But to what I prayed and swore for, the goddess will soon answer our call and bring someone from our past life to help us balance. If the trauma is not healed, you inherit that in your next life.”

Confused and sad at the sad time, Zuleica said: -” But how will I know? Does fate know that we have other issues to address first?” - she added with sarcasm.
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And suddenly she found herself again in the universe, that marvelous space that she had been often now after every episode.
Still in her energetic form she was able to recognize the girl named Zuleica as memories of her present life as Catalina formed in her mind. She was aware now that she saw Zuleica and an old lady in the southern territory and again another thing clicked on her.
That old woman she recognized was an old version of the lady that first appeared to her since she found herself in this kind of dimension.
The priestess, she was the one guiding and showing her all this. Now she remembers she had seen her when she was young and old in different times, zone and space. Was it strange or casual?
And then again, once she was at the space again, looking around her, desperate if she could see the priestess again one more time, she caught a glimpse of her hand.
Her gaze froze. She was now Catalina again.