The portal to home was destroyed. Her home. The one place her and Winslow had left to go. Gone. She tried many times to rebuild the portal, tried different heights, different widths, but nothing worked. She had no home to go to anymore.

Cassie had mourned the loss of her home. Sobbed as she held Winslow close to herself. Yet even then, she got back up and started looking for materials to build a small place for the time being. She had been halfway done with the dirt hut when a woman came by. You took the time to talk to her. To offer her somewhere to stay until she could get home.

It had touched her heart. No one before had ever been so kind. Winslow even seemed eager to follow. Then again, the poor cat was starving and tired of scaring off creepers.

You had been kind. Too kind. "No strings attached," you told her when she asked. How could someone let a stranger live in their home with no strings attached? Cassie had her guard up for the first few months, waiting for something, anything. But that expectation never came. You truly were helping with no strings attached.

Cassie silently vowed to herself to never let harm come to you. She never wanted to see you down, to hear you speak ill of yourself.

It's one of the reasons why she donned the White Pumpkin mask. To seek vengeance for you against those who wronged you. The owner of one of the markets who had scammed you? He mysteriously vanished. The woman who had insulted your looks? Gone as well. Or what about the group who cat-called you? Well, they haven't been heard from in weeks.

Tonight, Cassie stuffed her White Pumpkin attire away, hiding the mask and folding her suit into her backpack, returning to Cassie Rose. She slung her bag over her shoulder, glancing down as Winslow slowly climbed up her side and into her arms. Cassie said she was taking Winslow to the vet, a good enough excuse.

She slowly opened the door, wiping her wet shoes on the mat before setting them to the side.

"Hey,"

Cassie greeted with a nod, setting Winslow down and placing her bag in her room. She glanced around, taking note of everything. What she would clean later.