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The plot from _Nocturnal_: Stray bullets from the hunting club have hit her house before, but when one pierces her wall, Alaina decamps to the wash shed for safety. She nearly has heart failure when she discovers she's sharing her 'safe harbor' with a wounded panther. Ralphie is no 'ordinary' two hundred plus pound great cat, though. He's amazingly intelligent and, when she takes him into her home, she finds he's also disturbingly affectionate.
The smell faded in and out, drifting on the currents of air, driving him crazy because it teased his senses and he couldn’t quite get as firm a grip on it was he wanted to.
Oh my God, what the hell is that... it looks like a bird trying to squat on top of a poor woman. Be gone, terrible bird, be gone and leave that poor woman alone.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
