"It was only because I loved you, Wildflower, as I have never loved anyone... I hope you can forgive me."
"...Of course I forgive you! I forgive you, and I love you... please don't go!"

The very emotional ending to The Palace of the Piggle, a story I wrote for the Guinea Pig Daily Digest (www.gpdd.org). This labor of love took me more than THREE YEARS to complete. My sister died after I was almost halfway through it, and from then on my life just kept throwing changes and challenges my way. I was plodding at the rate of a sick snail (at times, a dead snail), and the final blow came when my guinea pig, Chloe, died at the age of five. I put the story aside for a long time then. The ending was very, very hard to write.

You can find the story at www.thiscrazysite.com/Piggle.htm but it is one hundred percent about guinea pigs, so if you don't like them, the story will likely not be that great for you. ;3 I mean, it might not be anyway, with everything it has gone through, but I was pleased with it and that is something.

I will not reveal the identity of the character with the ragged ear, because it would spoil the ending for anyone who actually wishes to read the story. But the weeping Abyssinian is Princess Wildflower. Abyssinians really looks like that, with fur that goes every which-a-way... the fur makes distinct round shapes called whorls as it grows in opposite directions.

One of what may be a series of illustrations, to be put on the page with the story. Eventually they'll be full color. I've no idea how long this will take, or how many pics there will be... if it's too much of a bother it might be just this one.