And the City Slept Beneath Part 1 (Cat's Memory)

Black Cat on Rooftop Under Full Moonlight
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The roofs of the city lay like frozen waves beneath the pale moon. Slate tiles gleamed as if someone had laid a thin layer of memory over them. The streets far below were empty, deserted, with only the occasional faint light behind a curtain, a shadow moving—too fast to be seen, too slow to be forgotten.
Above, on a narrow roof ridge, sat a cat.
Not young. Not old.
A creature in between.
Its gaze was not directed at the sky, but at what lay below—the sea of ​​houses, disappearing into narrow alleys and silent courtyards. The wind played with its whiskers, carrying the scent of cold metal and rusty leaves. Its ears sometimes twitched when, somewhere far away, a bicycle tipped over or a night bird cried, but it didn't move. The world below her had become a stage set, and she was the only breathing creature in the audience.
She remembered.
The window on the third floor of a house that no longer existed.
The hands of a woman who had once opened the window frame and laughed as she jumped.
The smell of coffee and newspaper.
Music—soft, never intrusive, sometimes just a chord.
And a pair of tired eyes that never spoke to her, but looked at her as if they understood.
The woman had left.
Not suddenly. Not dramatically.
At some point, the window had stopped opening.
At some point, there were no more footsteps in the kitchen.
And at some point, even the smell she had left behind had disappeared.
Since then, she had roamed through the nights.
Not because she had to—but because she hoped.
That somewhere, another window would open. That somewhere a shadow still lived, remembering her.
The wind grew stronger, and the leaves that had gathered in the cracks in the roof tiles began to dance. They moved like thoughts long repressed, now returning because the night was too soft to stop them.
The cat blinked slowly.
She remembered her name.
Or the sound of it.
It wasn't a sound—more of a feeling. Something warm that enveloped her like sunlight on the windowsill.
And while the city slept, she thought:
Maybe I had been loved once.
Maybe that was happiness.
Maybe just remembering that is enough.

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