Holy Ghost is Mary’s black cat. He spends a lot of time following the sun spots in Mary’s greenhouse, taking minutes, hours to lounge in each one, slow blinking and soft snoring.
He was a stray when they adopted him, but Mary knows he is a pisces. His forever mood is Sleepy, but he can sense a tricky emotion from across the home, finding the chests of sad inhabitants and laying across them, bringing weight, fur, and his knowing yellow eyes.
He is devoted to Mary, folding his body like a prayer around her shoulders at bedtime, sitting patient as blood with her as she brews an herbal salve in the greenhouse. He’s her “third eye,” Mary claims.
And he is curious about Jo. He will perch on the kitchen table while Jo bakes muffins, or follow Jo right at his ankles when Jo heads out back to his workshop, batting at wood shavings and meowing with gut at the swooping birds of the birdhouse Jo built.
But Jesus? Holy Ghost ignores. Despite Jesus’s attempts to befriend (cans of tuna, catnip, a feather toy, now gathering dust in some corner). When Jesus bursts through the front door, Holy Ghost sinks deeper into the greenhouse, blending with plant shadows.
Jesus pretends not to care.
It’s a Friday morning, a solar eclipse has just passed, and Mary feels it, feels the necessary release and change. Her shoulders slump and a few tears drop as she mixes together some patchouli with vetiver. Before she sees him, she feels Holy Ghost saunter into the greenhouse behind her. She twists open a window to air out any fumes as he coils around her legs.
She takes a moment to sit and he finds her lap, syncing purrs to the soft spill of sobs.
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