Tapio

Cat Name: Tapio

Cat Gender: male

Prompt:

"I'm not from here," he would say, and others would nod and smile, think they understood, that he was from the Sea Kingdom, of course he wasn't from the land. Though he did indeed dwell in the sea prior to his decision to join a sailing crew, it didn't feel like home any more than the ship he now rested his paws on did.

He wasn't sure how, or why it had happened, but he had heard legends of such phenomenon happening before: people torn from time, sent far into the past or future. He'd been living in a simple underwater village - some thousand years ago by now - when it had happened. He swam too far down into the deep, chasing a glowing Blue light, and when he reached it, he was suddenly somewhere, and somewhen, else.

Perhaps this all was a dream he couldn't wake up from, or perhaps it was his past life that was the illusion. He returned to his old home only to find a bustling kingdom, under the sea. It was home no longer. It was wrong.

He needed to go somewhere else, to not be reminded of how wrong everything was everywhere he looked - so he went to the surface, found a group, and asked to join. Maybe traveling by ship could bring him answers about how to get home, or wake up, or do something. (And silently, to himself, he swore that he would never tell a soul what had happened to him - for fear they'd think him insane.)