.Last year.. or the year before that (time.. means very little in my head when it comes to extreme memories)... I found out my first cat, back living with my mom, had died. She was a bit older.. but with proper care.. could have had a few more years...
I had raised her from just a few weeks old, we aren't sure how old as she had become the runt, and was quite ill when we found her. She was small enough to fit in my.. probably around 5-7 at the time year old sister's hands... Her eyes were glued shut with discharge... She looked so bad that my mom refused to let my dad take her to the vet, for fear they'd just put her down. So, we kept her. In a box with a screen top to start, and for many months as my dad still didn't want a kitten... Then I kept her in my room.. For the rest of the year I came home during lunch so that I could feed her, and clean her eyes (the one never did fully heal. She had the 2nd/3rd eyelid still covering most of it, and it may have been a bit smaller in general, for the rest of her life.) Not only was she my first cat... But I saved her...
So then, one day I get an e-mail from my sister... "So we put Suki down, can I have any photos you have of her" ... wait.. WHAT?! Not only am I told my baby just died... But you do so by ASKING ME for something? I think it took me a week, or longer, to found out why she'd been put down. She'd had badly progressed cancer (apparently the kitty equivilent of breast cancer) and had been full of small tumors
It made me even more angry, as I'd KNOWN she hadn't looked good for a while... She was very skinny.. and one year when I went over for xmas (first and last time I went back home...) she had lost quite a bit of fur in certain areas... The person I'd been living with, and myself, had even offered to pay for a vet visit to get them checked out.. but my mom refused.. saying they were fine... It made the situation even more infuriating, cause if she'd admitted she could be wrong.. JUST ONCE... Anyways.. So obviously this hurt me a lot... I'm... mostly over it, a lot of the anger is gone, though there's still a little sometimes... And I often get sad.. I'd made a sculpey sculpture of her to help me through the process...
Then I saw Skarr announced... And I thought she'd be perfect... Suki was all black you see.. And As I mentioned in the other thread.. I'd chosen Skarr to let her live on forever, as it's far more mystical than the other cat models (not to mention they have lighter bellys, which Suki did not), and that it was as if she was sent back in a form in which she could no longer feel any pain...
I'd decided though, that I was going to wait a while... Not only was that fire field intimidating.. and I'm HORRIBLE and super mario/jumping games... But it was just too busy... I didn't want to ruin my experience in getting her, by having her camped and griefed away from me.
Today, however, I logged in, and the first area was dead. Almost no one doing the quests. I think "wow, people are getting over 4.2 already?". Then I get to the molten front... ANd it's STILL empty.. I think this is the first time I see it this dead... So.. I /who, and see no hunters other than myself.. So, I figure... "Ehn.. if there's no one else... and it's this dead... I might as well go take a peak. Get some practice jumping the rocks at least". So I hop my way across the floaty rocks. One of them started cracking underneath me, and scared me for a bit, especially when the next one did as well... But I made it across allright. Apparently the gust I found my way to (purely by chance, as I didn't know where I was going.. didn't look for any guides) was the hast buff gust... So, I get up to fireplume peak... get attacked by one of the elementals, kill it.. and then see a red dot in the middle of the gap... Mouse over... SKARR! I rush to dismiss my pet, go to the edge of the land mass.. and hit tame (forgot to hit my other buffs, heh). I think she knew... She wanted to come back home to me, as the tame went flawlessly. WIth the haste buff, she was mine before my cast bar even finished, and before she even got off her first spell
As I was finishing typing this, a horde hunter came up to check spawn points, and cheered at me
(Anyone here Oggy/know Oggy? On Llane) And now another is gratsing me, this time an ally. I'm just ecstatic right now...RIP Suki, at least know you'll live forever.. in some way.
Can't wait for after work so I can do some runs with her.
