Jonah’s green eyes slowly flickered open. His black tail swished from side-to-side behind him as he gazed glumly up at the gray sky. It seemed like that sky would never change, he thought. It felt like it would always be dark and cold and ready to pour on you when things couldn’t get worse. Why was the sky always like that? He shook his head- he should be grateful that the gray sky was the only thing nature had given them so far. When winter truly came, the hardships it would bring would be far worse than any troubles that autumn brought on them now. He groaned, rubbing his paw. It ached from sleeping on the cold, hard stone. The nests were old and dirty and didn’t make the ground any more comfortable then it was, if anything the poking sticks and dead grass made it worse. He glanced towards the nests beside him which had been Daisy and Tiger’s that night. They were empty, and so was Minnie’s. He found it strange, how as he got older his energy seemed to drain away and he slept in longer then he would’ve even a few months ago. He wasn’t even that old, yet time pushed him further away from his healthy, young self. He huffed and grumbled, standing slowly so as to not lose his balance in his tired state. It was odd.. Camp was quieter today. After the group had been there for the past week he had forced himself to have a certain degree of tolerance towards the uncomfortable conditions and loud mornings, so it felt unusual for it to be so.. muted. He shrugged, deciding he’d let his mind wander on for long enough. Though decisions never seemed to help him in the past. In any case, he realized he should do something with this day.
Heh- I'm working on strays and decided to throw Jonah a couple extra chapters for character depth. This is one of them! Well- Part of one of them. Idk why I shared this, I'm just kind of happy with it so I thought it'd be fun to share as a sort of sneak peak xD B1 ended up being more of a kids book tbh, but b2 is going to be much darker. Not as dark as sf, but darker. More violent, more depressing, dealing with a lot of mental illness, that sort of thing :p Proof that strays is almost done heh this is the second to last chapter! Then there's a few chapters I've made notes to go over one more time and its pretty much done!
