Summary

The mountain lion moves to a new thicket in a nest of twisted trees above a path. He listens to hikers talk about their therapists and whether or not they make them feel good or bad. The mountain lion wants a therapist, but does not know if he feels good or bad. Since he is always hungry, and that is bad, he supposes he almost always feels bad, and he thinks a therapist can help with that, and with why he feels afraid after earthquakes.

The mountain lion thinks about his mother and the forest that he grew up in. There were lots of colors and many deer to eat. The mountain lion stayed with his mother for a long time. When the mountain lion got big, his father killed his mother, attacked him and chased him away from the forest to a...