Bastet's Cats: A Narrative Fiction

Snow was a small cat. And her best comforts in the world were the little things in that huge black blanket of a sky every night. What had her mother called them? Stars?
Snow would sit outside and watch them for hours and hours every night, sitting on the barn rooftop, climbing up trees, and enjoying the stars with a mouse. In the winter, she would always wear a green piece of cloth like a scarf, to keep herself warm. But what she didn’t know was that the skies were watching her every night.
The Egyptian goddess of cats, protection, joy, dance, music, family, and love had a special interest in this one of millions of cats. Bastet had noticed that during her eternal watch, there always seemed to be someone watching her and . And when she searched, there was. Snow, just one cat of a million, sat through the cold and damp every night, looking up. And so every night, Bastet would look down at Snow and smile at Snow’s curiosity. …show more content…
She was easy to pick out, with her bronze colored coat sitting nicely against the white snow, which looked almost yellow next to the three shimmering white stripes on Snow’s head and three on each leg. It was a symbol of Purity, Bastet thought. But Snow wasn’t in her usual spot; she was walking with her friend towards the great expanse of forest nearby. Watching with curiosity, Bastet listened as the friend explained a challenge to Snow: climb to the halfway point on the Never Tree (short for Never-Ending Tree) without ripping her scarf. Snow bravely took the challenge, and after several minutes of climbing, made it to the middle without tearing her scarf. But she kept going, straight for the stars that she held so