Meet Train - Embarkation -v1.0.0- -cat Language-

We glide. Tracks sing beneath us—rhythmic claws combing earth. The view is gone and found in breaths: orchard scents, the metallic tang of the river, a dog barking at an uncatchable horizon. I study fellow passengers the way I study birds: names imagined by fur, gait, and the careful crinkle at the corners of eyes. There is a pair who share a thermos like a single warm sun; a child who hums an unfinished tune; a woman whose pockets are lined with folded letters—paper mice.

Ticket? I bat it with one careful paw. The paper shivers, a tiny bird. I scent the ink: a destination folded into my ribs. The boarding call is a low purr from the loudspeaker—an old tom saying my name in static. I hop the step, claws clicking on the grate, and the door yawns like a welcoming mouth. Meet Train - Embarkation -v1.0.0- -Cat Language-

I tail the crowd, carrying one small thing: a stub of a ticket with a smudge of ink that reads—if you tilt it just right—Meet. Stay. Go. My whiskers decide it means all three. We glide