Nitoya hadn't been at the academy very long. She'd wandered around on her own for a long time after leaving the facility before she was even comfortable enough to be around other cats, much less live with them. It had been hard for her, to escape...that had been the easy part, not that she had had choice in the matter really, no the hard part was what came after. Finding purpose again, finding the will to live when she had resigned herself to death in the lab intelligence was no gift there, it had only heightened her despair, which gave way to extreme apathy. Escape from the mindset hadn't come easy, shed been in a pitiful state, staring at the sky blankly, unaware of her surroundings, as though the world around her did not exist or as though she did not exist in it, she had barely bothered to keep herself fed in those days.Eventually though it had started to come back to her, little things first, interest in an ant crawling across her wrist, a falling leaf brushing her cheek, the cold bite of morning air. She'd woken up, she had life again and there was meaning to it.
Nitoya paused as she came to a steep section, eyeing the way down cautiously, considering it before moving down the hillside back into the trees. She liked the mountain, she didn't mind the Academy...it was helping her find the focus she still lacked. It wasn't as though she had rapidly recovered from her apathy. It still clung to her, if she was waking up it was a slow process but she felt she was making headway. She felt most in touch and aware in the mornings, when outside, on her own, exploring the sometimes treacherous slope of the mountain the academy was situated on. Her muscles had been weak and atrophied after the facility, but she had remedied this. While her mind lay idle so had she but when some sense of life returned to her she had focused on training her body that at least she could handle. She had yet to really focus on addressing the issues still in her mind, that would come after... after what she didn't know.
She sighed, closing her eyes and leaning against a tree. She had been walking downhill for the past hour it was much easier than the climb back up would be, but she enjoyed the challenge of that. Her eyes opened taking in her surroundings for a moment before she decided she liked the view and let herself slide down the tree trunk sitting quietly at its base in the wet grass, breathing. Thinking wore her out more than anything and it was that she took a break from as she sat there staring blankly into the trees.
