The heat came sudden. Like overnight, it turned every extant tang of chill into a memory of past's winter. Now the pond with its shallow water lies in green stillness.
Two little girls, one dressed in a princess costum the other in a pink jogging suit are chasing in gleefully laughter over the pagoda, which levitates midway to the other side of the pond.
His Tiger-eyes stop in front of the waterside.
The cat turns her head with a sweeping eye.
„ Last summer we put a fish back into the water.“
„ It must be dead by now. Look at the water. Not deep enough to keep the frost out.“
Firm, warm, wind absorbs the whoops of the little princess and her companion and elopes through a veil of leaves into silence.
The boy with the Tiger-eyes turns away from the water and slowly starts walking again.
Three wooden benches face torwards the pond. All in the exact same diameter to the center of the pond. On the first bench sits a women with black hair and a pair of small oval glasses perches on top of her fine nose. Her palms resting on top of her lap.
„We could sit down right next to her, just close enough to be on her tail. I bet it would make her feel jumpy and she'd go away.“
„ Leave the grey mouse alone. I know you like to play around, but your sense of teasing is cruel.“
With a sudden move, his hands crasp around the cat's delicate waist, slender hind legs push against his loins. She bridles up trying to bite him in the neck. He growls in amusement then lets go of her again. When the cat looks sharply at the tiger, he doesn't even blink, but smiles softly.
„ You know I am much stronger than you Kitten.“
For a while she walks next to him, stroking his shoulder with her head.
„What's so fascinating about domesticating fish?“
„ Don't ask me. It wasn't my fish. I prefer them struggling for life.“
Pollen hover through the air. Just like snowflakes they seem to move unbound from gravity. Though the gentle fall is seminal. Their touch with the ground, it is not to a final moment, but to match with fruitful soil.
„They make my eyes feel itchy!“
„ Huxin. You have to blink more often. Or drink more water, keep your body fluid.“
„ I could drink lakewater.“
She makes a highpitched noise digging her nails into his arm.
„Don't make stupid jokes. Nicht Gutes kommt von einem Grund ohne Tiefen!“
„You don't know what's inside. The pond's ground lies hiding in muddy waters. I don't trust this lake bed. Remember, last time we came by, sitting on the bench with the lonely Lady mouse? Not even then it has been clear.“
"What hasn't been clear?“
„ That's why you believe the fish is dead.“
Then she takes a bottle of water out of her backpack, handing it to him.
„ You see, I came prepared.“
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