Kore: You seem to be lost, darling. What are you doing here?

Kit: *is shaking and looks up at the tall dark form* I-I'm los-st...Wh-who are you? Wh-where am I?

Kore: Who I am is of no matter, but you are far from where you should be, little one. You have been going the wrong way, sweetie. Just turn around, and follow the light.

Kit: What light? I don't see one....

Kore: Me, of course. I know the way out, and the way you want to go. Just follow me through the dark.....

Kit: *nods shakily, still scared but somehow comforted by the huge shadowy figure*

After quickly traveling through the dark and the mist, and the eerie, unearthly silence, the dank and the dark slowly gave way to the clean and the beautiful. The kit dashed toward it, crossing the grassy line from dark to light, skidding to a stop and shouting, turning around and expecting the huge tom to be smiling and standing close behind.

But the dark tom was standing at the edge of the line, not daring to bring a claw past it. He smiled ruefully at the small kit gestured for the kit to continue.

Kore: Just keep going, sweetie. You don't want to be lost in here again...

Kit: But- but can't you come with me? I'm sure the others would be happy to meet you! Please?

Kore: *chuckles sadly* No, my dear...I cannot...I am not as pure and young as you are. My home...is in the dark.

Kit: N- but- WAIT!!

Kore's dark form slowly disappears, seemingly ignorant of the kitten's pleas for him to stay. But he was far from ignorant.

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