Cat Sis 2.0: Offline

Mira didn’t run. She couldn’t. She just watched as the cat’s eyes flickered back to amber, warm and alive and impossible. The device on its collar read:

Mira reached to unplug it, but the cord was already loose. The cat hadn’t been plugged in for two days. cat sis 2.0 offline

Then the cat purred.

The last time Mira saw her sister alive, they were fighting over the thermostat. Elara, two years younger and armed with the righteous fury of someone who just biked home in a thunderstorm, wanted it at 75. Mira wanted it at 68. The argument escalated into a shouting match about borrowed sweaters, borrowed boyfriends, and borrowed childhood dreams. Mira didn’t run