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The Journey Across the Pond Part 1
By Roalee

The drive through the mountain pass was breathtaking. A ray of light hit the distant peaks so beautifully that Scatflipza envied the mountain. She peered out of her cat carrier as her human, Marlee, held it up.

“Look, kitty, we’re leaving America behind to go to England. This is so exciting!”

The little black kitten wiggled her pink nose and sneezed.

“Da’, can’t we turn the heat on? Frankie’s catching cold,” the young woman said worriedly.

“Sure, sugar, but doesn’t she have her own fur coat to keep her warm?”

“Please, Da’. It is so very cold up here,” Marlee pleaded.

“Thank you,” the young queen meowed as her human’s father pushed a button and turned some dials.

“Are we almost to the airport yet? I can’t seem to get to sleep with all this noise,” another girl in the car said sulkily.

“Shut up, Michelle. I know very well you can sleep through a smoke alarm. Frankenstein was just telling Father how much she appreciated him turning the heat on.”

“What ever,” Marlee’s younger sister said as she rolled her eyes.

Scatflipza, a.k.a. Frankenstein, laughed to herself as she observed her pet and her pet’s sister fight. She turned her head to see what their brother, Melvin, was doing. He was sleeping soundly. She knew what was coming next.

“Girls, please be quiet. I don’t want Melvin to wake up. He’ll just get carsick again.”

The two sisters shut up hastily at their mother’s scolding. Scatflipza sighed and decided to follow Melvin’s example. She hoped be the time she woke up they would be at the airport. The black kitten curled around her blanket inside the carrier and fell into a deep sleep. Moving was always tiring. The sleeping kitten didn’t dream, so much as remember what had happened to her during her short life.
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It was cold and she couldn’t see. She couldn’t do much of anything really. She didn’t understand what had happened to her. One moment she was warm and being uncomfortably squeezed from where she was, then she was shivering. She mewed her discomfort as loudly as she could. A sudden warmth came from something rough that licked her thoroughly. She felt, rather than heard, a sound that, at once, calmed and comforted her: her mother’s purr.

“Oh, my little darling, look how beautiful you are,” she barely heard her mother whisper lovingly. “Come, join your brothers and sister.”

She felt herself being pushed and placed in a pile of squirming bodies. She found a source of food and fed. Exhausted and finally warm, she slept.
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Scatflipza half woke to see how far along on the trip they had gone. ‘Well, at least we’re in a city now,’ she thought as she caught sight of the skyscrapers. She promptly went back to sleep.
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She was awake, but her eyes still weren’t open. All she could do was smell, hear, and touch. She mewed plaintively as loudly as she could so that she could be moved to the warmth she knew was her mother.

“Now, what Particular Name should I give you kit? Hmm... I know it will come to me. The naming of cats is a difficult matter...”

The kitten wondered why she hadn’t been Named yet. Her siblings had already gotten their Names. Her brothers were Jerrymander and Razkelly. Her sister was Mercielle. She turned onto her back in protest, decided she was uncomfortable in that position, and flipped back.

“I know!” her mother exclaimed triumphantly. “Your Name will be Scatflipza.” She licked the top of the newly Named kitten’s head.

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