The night it turned cold enough to burn your lungs, I found him sitting up instead of sleeping, his coat wrapped around the cat like she was made of glass. His hands were bare and red, trembling, but he smiled when I handed him a coffee. “She’s not used to this kind of cold,” he said, like he wasn’t shivering. When the outreach van finally stopped, they offered him a bed, a shower, a way out. He listened, nodded, then glanced down at the cat in his lap. “Can she come?” he asked. The answer was no. It was always no. He looked at me then, eyes clearer than I’d ever seen them. “I won’t leave her,” he said softly. The van drove away empty. In the morning, only the imprint of his mat remained, and a single orange hair clinging to the concrete.
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