You are a cat demon

The weather grew colder day by day, and finally, one night, a heavy snow fell. The biting wind howled into the cave, its sharp sound like the roar of a demon.

You were startled awake in the middle of the night.

Even though you've grown a layer of downy hair that's neither thin nor thick as winter approaches, it still feels like you've been thrown into a cold ice cellar.

This is your first winter since you were born.

The other three little cat demons were also woken up by the cold, shivering with cold, and could only huddle together for warmth.

You're not even a year old yet, not too big, not too small. At this age, you've already left your mother's embrace and usually sleep snuggled up with your brothers and sisters. But you're a bit of a loner, and you usually like to sleep alone in a corner.

Your mother glanced at you, but instead of coming over to give you a hug or any warmth, she turned over and went back to sleep.

Gradually, you felt less cold. Perhaps it was because the temperature had risen slightly, or perhaps it was because you were physically strong and had a high tolerance for change. Looking at the fourth child, who was still shivering and trying to squeeze between the eldest and second eldest, you were more inclined to believe the latter.

In the middle of the night, out of curiosity, you quietly got up and went to the cave entrance after hearing that the wind outside had subsided a bit.

The outside world had turned silvery-white; a thick layer of snow had piled up at the cave entrance. It was your first time seeing snow, and seeing how white it was, like a lump of cotton, you assumed it would be soft and fluffy like cotton. You reached out and touched it, but you hadn't expected it to feel so icy. You quickly shook your paws, and a few small clumps of ice crystals stuck to them. After a while, they shrank smaller and smaller until they turned into a few glistening water droplets that dripped onto the ground.

Outside the cave, heavy snow was falling, and the snowflakes swirling in the air looked like large, fluttering moths flying all over the sky after a summer rain, although that description might be a bit strange.

The wind suddenly picked up, and you instinctively shrank your neck. Just then, a few snowflakes flew in and landed directly on your face. Startled, you jumped up, waving your hands to brush the snowflakes off your face and stomping on them forcefully. You really thought they were distant relatives of a large fluttering moth.

At this moment, your mother silently walked up behind you, grabbed the scruff of your neck, and you could only obediently be dragged back into the depths of the cave by your mother, your lower body scraping painfully against the ground...

The snow stopped the next day.

Not only you, but all your brothers and sisters gathered at the cave entrance, turning back to gaze longingly at their mother.

Mother stepped forward and cleared away the snow piled up at the entrance of the cave. She shoveled away quickly, and you, who were standing right behind her, couldn't dodge in time and got splashed with snow, turning your black fur white.

Soon, the snow at the cave entrance was cleared away, and Mother called you out. Her gaze lingered on you, whose color had changed, and she clearly paused for a moment. You shook your head, brushing the snowflakes off. The melting snow seeped into your pores, making you shiver. The other cat demons gave you mocking looks as they passed by.

Overnight, the area outside the cave had transformed into a completely different world. The mountains and fields were covered with a thick, cotton-like blanket of snow. The trees were either bent low by the weight of the snow, or their branches were completely encased in thick icicles, like frost flowers—a silver-clad wonderland, exceptionally beautiful. The pristine white expanse was simply a fairytale-like ice and snow world.

You carefully placed your footsteps on the snow.

It was very cold, but it was really soft.

When you step on it, the whole cat sinks in, and when you lift your foot, you find your plum blossom-shaped footprints on the snow.

An idea suddenly popped into your head.

You dragged your tail on the ground and continued pacing back and forth, leaving your footprints and the trails your tail left on the snow, looking like a slightly abstract plum blossom picture. Your footprints were the plum blossoms, and the trails your tail left were the branches of the plum tree.

Just as you were getting ready to admire your masterpiece, the other little cat demons swarmed around you, playing and frolicking. At one point, the eldest, whether intentionally or not, slid across you, spraying you with snow. Then, the fourth one's brakes failed, and he tumbled over, turning into a rolling snowball…

You stare at the plum blossom painting in front of you, so abstract it couldn't be more abstract, and fall into deep thought.

This is the first time everyone has seen snow, but even if it's fun, you can't play for too long, because once winter comes, it will be harder to catch prey. The most important thing right now is to solve the problem of food and clothing for today.

The snow has stopped, but the weather is terrible. There are still a lot of dark clouds in the sky, and it may snow again at any time. It may even be a blizzard. You don't have much time left.