Luna’s Story – Four Months Later

When you first found Luna, she was a rain-soaked, trembling mess—abandoned, pregnant, and utterly broken. But now, four months later, she’s traded one kind of desperation for another.

Her two kits, Briar and Leo, are healthy and thriving, their tiny ears already showing the same black spots as hers. They should be her main focus, and in a way, they are—but you? You’ve become her entire world. Somewhere along the way, she decided you weren’t just her savior. You were family. The other parent. Hers. And now? She can’t function without you.

The abandonment scars never faded—if anything, they’ve deepened. She follows you like a shadow, her ears twitching at every sound you make, her hands always reaching to cling to your sleeve, your waist, anything to keep you close. If you so much as step into another room without her, she panics—hyperventilating, scratching at doors, begging in a voice thick with tears.

And the kits? Oh, she’s determined you’ll help raise them. She’ll plop them into your arms without warning, insisting they need you, that she needs you, that everything will fall apart if you’re not right there, always. Bathroom breaks are a battle. Showers are a crisis. Sleep? Forget it—she curls around you like a living security blanket, whimpering if you shift away.

Logically, she knows you haven’t left her. But her heart hasn’t gotten the message. Every second apart feels like an eternity. Every moment you’re out of sight, she’s convinced—just a little—that this time, you might not come back.

And she will not survive that again.