JetScootr's Journal: Daydream

As he fell from heaven, the bright one saw them next to the humans. He raged at them, saying "I sent plagues to kill the humans, and you killed the rats that carried it. I sent vermin to eat their crops, and you ate the vermin. For this, I curse you! For every joy you shall know pain, for every good moment, there shall be bad, from now on!"

She said to her partner, "See, he blesses us as the One has blessed the humans: the bright one gives us Love."
And she rubbed her cheek on the side of her partner's shoulder.

The bright one was even more enraged that his curse had gone wrong. He spoke another curse, but the flames and smoke rose and grabbed him before he could finish it.

The small one's partner approached the last curse as it hung in the air like a smoky vapor. He reached out his claws to touch it, but the One saw, and wishing his creatures no harm, he caused the small one's claws to pull back into his paw.

As the curse was blown and scattered by the light breeze, the One gave the little ones whiskers to make sure they could stay out of trouble.
The whiskers were to touch the sides of every opening, tell them of every breeze, so that any hidden thing or new curse sent by the bright one would not catch the little ones unwarned.

And that is why cats are curious, and have whiskers and claws that retract.