Bastet
the cat who guards the hearth
fireBastet turns the sun's fierceness into the warm protection of home and the gentle guardianship of sleepers; to dream of her is to feel a soft, watchful presence curl beside you and keep the small dark things away.
Fragments
Yet the same eyes that purr in lamplight can widen into the lioness of plague, and then no wall is thick enough to keep her fury out.
By day she is the small warm cat asleep in the sunlit doorway; her festival filled the river with music, wine, and the laughter of half a million pilgrims.
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