Sun Stealer. Hidden Anomaly. by A. Mani Page A

told everyone, I was named that way because of my green, yellow eyes. But my dad said it was because, yellow diamonds are rare, just like me.
                  My father was the king of the civilized zone and we lived in our kingdom named, Ko-Ey-Nor, which means, mountain of light. Our kingdom was high enough to enjoy the sun, yet low enough not to get burn. It was surrounded by the bright side of nature: light, gardens, water lakes, fruits and cats. Yes cats.
                  Cats had an integral part in Anomaly. The same cats, you call ‘wild cats‘. The same cats, who are in extinction in your age. The same cats, who the only connection they have with humanity, is behind bars and inside locked cages. Those ones, used to be a part of our humanity. Those ones used to walk freely among us.
                  The day I was born, a little cat was born. A little cat everybody called a ‘genetic disorder‘. It had no color, all white, with little black stripes and light blue, sad eyes. It was a little tiger. My father always claimed, that it was only my imagination, That tigers could not have sad eyes, because tigers never cried. All our tigers were orange colored with black stripes and green, yellow eyes. This little tiger was an outcast. It was doomed. Doomed, until I was old enough to save it.
                  I named it ‘Shadea’, since it followed me everywhere like a little shadow and brightened my day, every time our eyes met. It was a female tiger. A very intelligent cat. As oppose to all other cats, she learned how to communicate with humans real fast. We communicated through the art of dance. I called it dance, others called it conversation. Every human in the civilized zone was accompanied by a cat, from morning till night. The cat was our friend, helper, protector and confidant.
                  Shadea and I were inseparable. In mornings, right after practice and meditation, in the palace’s garden, (all citizens of civilized zone were invited to morning training), Shadea and I used to perform our little dance, in front of all kids and adults. Shadea used to stand in front of me and I used to impersonate her catwalk to the sounds of our audience’s applauses and cheers. Dancing was not allowed in the civilized zone. Shadea was my excuse for exploring that magnificent art. My big sister, Emerdi, used to snitch on me to our parents all the time. She was jealous of my close relationship with my cat and all the other cats in civilized zone. She was envious of the fact, I was adored by all civilians. My mother used to get angry with me and punish me but my father always laughed and said:
                  “That’s my little yellow diamond. Cats follow her everywhere, it is only natural she will follow them back…”
                  That loving reaction of my father, only made my sister and mother even more angry with me. Later on, I discovered that because of all the love I was getting by our kingdom‘s people. And because of the fact I communicated so well with our cats, my father was considering passing leadership of the civilized zone to me and not to my sister although she was the older one. That made animosity between me and my sister even bigger. So big I used to count the days until she would leave to ‘Eygra- Rama‘.
                  Eygra- Rama is a place, only Ko-Ey-Nor’s children were sent to. A place where you got knowledge and manners, nobody else could afford. My sister was not eager to go there. She had a friend named,  Sag, whom she loved very much and did not want to be separated from. Sag became a part of our family, after his family was murdered on a battle against the wild ones. His father and uncle protected my father, therefore my father adopted Sag and treated him like his own son.
                  Sag was a beautiful young man. He was very tall and built as a young god. He just recently