🐾 Cat and Mouse in Partnership

 

🐾 Cat and Mouse in Partnership

“The First Weaving”
A Story of Elemental Trust, Sacred Agreements, and What Happens When We Forget the Circle
As remembered through Sister Loves Divine Remembrance
Book Seventeen of the Sacred Fairy Tale Series

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🐈🐁 In the Time Before the Great Forgetting…

Cat was not yet a hunter.
Mouse was not yet prey.

They were symbols of polarity:
stillness and motion, night and dawn, instinct and intuition.

They lived at the edge of the forest,
beneath the roots of an ash tree older than the Moon.

And one day, the ash tree whispered:

“If you wish to survive what’s coming,
weave your strengths together.
One alone will not last the Winter.”

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🧺 The First Agreement

So they built a storehouse in the hollow of the ash,
and agreed to share.

Cat would gather what could not be seen.
Mouse would gather what could not be heard.

They called the storehouse "Trust."

They sealed it with a song.

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❄️ The Long Winter

As the air chilled, silence fell.

Cat, ruled by hunger and dream,
saw the storehouse and grew afraid.

“What if there’s not enough?”

In secret, he began to nibble at the stores.
First a little. Then more.

Mouse, trusting the bond, did not check.

Until the final moon—
when the snow howled and the stores were bare.

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🩸 The Breaking

Mouse trembled.

“You betrayed the Circle,” she said,
“not by eating,
but by hiding your fear from me.”

Cat bowed his head.

“I thought you’d leave if I told you.”

Mouse turned away, heart split.

From that day forward,
Cat could no longer be trusted with silence.
And Mouse could no longer rest beside instinct.

They became hunter and hunted—
not out of malice,
but because the Circle had been broken.

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🌕 Moral of the Sacred Tale:

True partnership requires truth, even when it trembles.

Fear, if hidden, becomes betrayal.
But fear, if shared, becomes a bridge.

When instinct and intuition part ways,
a wound is left in the world—
and only love can mend it again.