I woke up and realized that it was getting dark out, and I got up, ran to where Daniel was and I saw him curled up on the beach floor still sleeping, so I turned around and ran to the meeting tent and climbed to the top quietly. I peered in and saw that most of the guards were asleep on the straw couches and two of them were standing guard, but they were in seats talking to each other instead of watching all of the possible entrances. I was glad that they hadn't thought of closing the top of the tent off because it would've been much harder to reach them if they had. I got into position to drop into the hole to the lower level of the tent and then I let go and I watched the two talking the entire time. I landed quietly in the hole and I stopped listening to make sure that they hadn't heard or seen anything. I heard one of them laugh, but it was cut off abruptly. 

"Shut it, do you want to wake the others up and make them cranky" it was the woman scolding the man for being loud. I stopped listening and looked forward to see that everyone was lying all over the floors with barely enough room for everyone. I sighed quietly and then I saw my mom and dad on the opposite side of the room, so I got on all fours and quickly went through the mine-field of people. I quickly stepped in the small spaces between every pair of legs, arms, feet, hands, heads, and bodies, and I was now at least halfway through, I stepped in the next empty space that I could fit a foot in, and the person rolled over squishing my paw against the other person's body. I gritted my teeth together to not yowl and wake up the entire place when I was barely through them all. I did a few quick breaths, and I realized that my claws were out and against the person's skin. I didn't want to take my paw out because it would scratch him and make him bleed a-lot and it might even kill him from the blood loss in his sleep. He wouldn't feel anything, and he would die peacefully in his sleep, but I didn't want to kill one of my tribe, even accidentally. 

I slowly shifted my hand sideways, and I felt my claws slowly go back into my hand as I shifted my hand, but it was still squished and burning with pain. I took my hand out and let it heal for a second before putting it in a different place, and then I saw someone had their eyes open. I quickly made my way through the people and then I lay down in an empty spot. I watched them stand up, and look around before rubbing his eyes and settling back down. He was asleep in a minute, and his heavy steady breathing told me so, so I got up from the spot that I was in and made my way through the rest of the people moving silently, and with un-matching grace. 

I figured out that if I didn't think, and relied on my senses to move me and do what I could do naturally because of my cat side it would be much faster and much better. I was on the other side next to my parents in a flash and I looked at them sleeping in peace with sadness building in my heart. I stood on my hind legs and used the back of my paw to stroke my mothers face, I just wanted to be home again, I wanted to have an actual family that cared for me again, and I wanted my mother and father to be happy again, a tear ran down my face and landed on her cheek. I wiped it away as she started to stir, but I wasn't afraid of her seeing me because all that would happen is that she would see my outline, or she would just hear my voice. I saw her eyes open and I'm pretty sure that she could see mine this close, but she didn't freak out she was just calm as she should be because I was no threat to her and I was never going to be a threat to her. 

"Hi mom" I said and she touched my face and quickly brought her hand back. 

"Why are you so rough honey" she said 

"That's my fur, I changed a-lot since I left" I said "but it is safe for you guys to come out, you don't need to worry about anything mother" and then I turned around to see that a couple of people were up and wondering what was talking. I looked at my mother another time before I got on all fours, and quickly made my way out of there in a flash, not thinking, just letting my cat instincts take control for traveling in the people. I was at the start of the tunnel in a flash, and I stood back up and looked at all of the sleeping people in sadness, and pain that I couldn't be like this with them, normal and fine. I jumped up and landed silently in the ledge just in-front of the tunnel entrance. Then I ran over to the wall and started to climb it, letting my claws dig into the wood and let me travel up it's wall. When I was at the top I awkwardly climbed out of the hole and into the cool morning air. The sun was coming up soon and I needed to sleep, so I jumped off the big tent and ran to the nearest tree, climbing it and going to sleep, but I still had a perfect view of the tent's front gates. 

I woke up to the sound of the gates opening and I looked over to see that they were actually coming out, and then I saw Daniel looking at them with great interest. I slowly got out of the tree and made my way over there silently, and when I was near him I purposefully stepped onto a twig making him snap his head over here, and I motioned for him to come over. He looked at my clan and then me and sighed before coming over here. I stood there impatiently as he slowly made his way over and I grabbed his arm and pulled him over making my claws dig into his fur and making him wince in pain. Once he was next to me, he licked his arm and the wound closed and I waited as everyone came out and looked around in confusion, and then they noticed us.