I woke suddenly. The crackling of the fire had stopped. In fact, the whole thing had died. I looked around the living room.

"Mew."

My ear twitched at the sound. My eyes locked onto the source.
Suddenly I was looking at myself. But the 'me' I was staring at had fur that was no longer orange. Instead it was white. 'My' eyes switched from yellow to green. Then to red.
I think.
Aren't I colourblind?

Oh well. I just know there was something different with my fur.

I sprang to my feet and trotted towards... 'me'. It didn't move.
It wasn't a picture of me in that thing called a 'mirror' the human girl so frequently used.
So it was a flesh-and-blood me....?

I stopped a few feet away.

'My' ears flattened back,  'my' lips drew back to reveal fangs that glinted in the moonlight streaming through the window.

And 'I' sprang with a yowl that tore a hole in the silence of the night, claws itching to rip my fur, teeth with the urge to taste blood..

And I was defenceless.

"RrrrRAAWWLLL!"

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