The Time Of The Talking Cat

“Hey! Lady! ....Hey!” It’s all I could hear, I kept trying to focus, but that wasn’t going very well.

“Hey! Lady! You better get up before they get too close or they’ll report ya.”

I got my eyes open, but couldn’t see where the voice was coming from, just a cat staring at me, then I heard it again.

“Hey!”, the cat looked like it was moving it’s lips.

I sat up then, a little too fast, I felt the dizziness from the move. I looked at the cat, and I was completely confused.

“You need to move” the cat said.

I just looked at this cat... that was talking to me, then started to put pieces together. The time accelerator must have worked, but how far in the future did I go? To have a talking cat? I thought to myself.

“Where am I?” I asked

The cat, cleaning his front paw. “At the park.”

A woman walking a dog passed by, the “they” the cat was talking about. “Hello” the dog said, the women said nothing.

It looked like a park, but it didn’t feel like one, there was no breeze, and the air was heavy for being outside. I had no idea how far into the future I jumped, but I was guessing that it was at least 80 or more years.

My headache was easing, and I had to figure out how get back home.

I moved my feet underneath me, and began to stand. I looked around, the sky looked different. “Why is the sky....whirling?” Having no other words to describe what I was seeing.

The cat looked at me and winked. “The dome we’re in, is cleaning the air, so the sky looks like it’s moving around.”

“Do ya have a name?” I asked him.

“The name is Feli” my creators thought they we’re being clever, with a shortened version of feline. I however prefer Olli.”

“Creators?” I asked, again confused.

“Yea, they go to a lab, pick the characteristics in a pet they want, a few whooshes in a tube, and presto-here I am, walking and talking.”

“And the dome?”

He looked up, giving his head a nod. “For air and weather control”

Well that explained everything....not. I needed to move, find out how I could get out of here, I didn’t see any signs of the portal, which puzzled me.

“Did you see how I got here?” I asked.

“You looked like you got thrown up by those bushes over there, and landed over here, actually more like a power puke.” Olli chuckled at his own joke.

I walked over to the bushes, and moved my hands over them, then I felt the gravitational pull that wanted to propel me back to my own time.

I looked at Olli, “Want to come with me?”

He looked and laughed, “No, been there, and there’s no one to talk to”