u/anjunableep

She was a tiny kitten dumped on the street in our jungle neighborhood with cars, roaming packs of stray dogs, snakes, spiders, etc. She would not have survived more than a few terrified days in that environment.

She was being chased down the hall by the caretaker of our building; when I look back you'd think that a tiny terrified kitten would run away from all people but she just ran straight up and looked at me like: 'are you going to fucking *help*?' I took her into our apartment and our little Onyx has been with us ever since. We love her very much.

Crazy back story: we live in Mexico, in a historically Mayan area and someone (disgruntled ex employee or something) put a Mayan curse on our building. This involved coconuts and effigies in an area outside of our building. You can laugh all you want but the local people took this very seriously; literally no one would even touch those things.

Within a day or two my wife and I sat down to watch TV and noticed a couple of flies in the apartment. Not unusual to have a fly or two, we get up to get rid of them but we discover that our apartment is *infested* with flies: literally hundreds of them in every room, it's seriously fucking horrible. I have lived in Mexico for years and never seen anything like that before or since.

Anyway within two days of *that* Onyx chose us and came into our lives. She looks after us, she's our protector.