The hospital was a prison.Not because of bars — there were no bars in the room where I was, only the locked door and the police officer outside. But because of the rules, the routines, the impossibility of doing anything other than staring at the ceiling and waiting. My body was still broken — the ribs knitting together, the fractures healing, the concussion bringing headaches that came in waves. The doctors said I was lucky to have survived the car accident. I wasn’t so sure.Every night, he came.At first, I thought it was a hallucination. The medication was strong, the pain was intense, and the human mind has strange ways of dealing with trauma. But the nights passed, the medication decreased, and the cat kept coming.Always at the same window. Always at the same time. He sat on the windowsill outside, front paws together, tail curled around his body, and watched me through the glass. His eyes were yellow, the same eyes I had seen in the forest, on the night of the fall.On the fi
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