Part 7/1: Xolotl Meets His Human

When I saw her, a warmth spread in my chest; I instinctively knew urgent longing.

Today’s random word prompt is desire.

The author created this AI image of young Xolotl with Midjourney. S. I. James owns copyright and provenance, per Midjourney ToS.

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My brothers, sister and I franticly shuffled around the constricting cardboard box when a giant, gentle hand scooped me up from the litter.

My world tilted.

I peed a little.

I whimpered with dread.

But then, a face filled my vision.

A human with eyes the color of a dusky sky, skin the color of the mother-milk-smelling poop that my sister excreted yesterday, and a smile of flat eggshell-colored teeth warmed my tiny puppy heart.

Make this giant mine!

This demand to a God I had never contemplated before this moment rose for this human. My desire.

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This drabble is in response to a prompt by Grim Flandango, who admits, “…in most realities (he) actually have some sliver of (his) shit together.”