another tragic disaster but I'm safe where I am
To say it had been a busy day at the hospital would have been a massive understatement. For almost the entirety of her shift Abby had been run off her feet; there hadn’t even been time to grab a decent cup of coffee yet. The last week had been filled with chaos, at times it seemed like the whole of Denver had gone mad. The hospital had once again been filled with casualties of what some might consider a war but really it was just peoples inability to deal with the world around them; no matter what anyone said they were never as open minded as they claimed to be. The truth is people didn’t trust what they couldn’t fully understand and that was becoming more dangerous for everyone.

Abby just wanted to escape the madness that was surrounding her but her sense of duty prevented her from truly getting away from it all; so she would just have to settle for the next best thing. Maybe it was unwise to be seen in such a public space in her animal form with tensions riding so high but to be honest she didn’t really care right now. For some reason things just seemed slightly better to Abby when she was in leopard form, perhaps it was due to the way a cats mind worked or just the fact that being up a tree made everything else fade away into the background somehow. She couldn’t remember the last time she had taken an hour for herself and chilled out in a tree like this just watching the world carry on below her. If she had her way she would have happily spent the rest of the day up in the trees but the hospital was just too busy right now for her to waste the afternoon lounging in the park. She had been working split shifts and doubles for the last week and there was no end in sight. She had told the nurses station where they could find her in the event of an emergency and excused herself, slipping away to the nearby park to unwind as best she could before her next shift started.

If anyone thought the sight of a leopard up a tree in a park in Denver was weird they didn’t comment on it, although it was probably that no one noticed her perched on a branch with the foliage hanging down around her. Sometimes it was nice to become invisible in plain sight and just pretend for a moment that things were not as complicated as they actually were. She knew this peace couldn’t last long so she would just have to savour it until the madness sucked her back in.

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