Euuuughgllglle.
I have well over 20 tiny plants in my room, some on my desk, some near my fish, and I've buried one of my fish near a patch of cacti I planted years ago…
Nice choice of naming for the cat Osiris. And the ending made me feel simultaneously kind of sympathetic for the lady and terrified for what might have happened afterward. Those are dark arts to dabble in.
+1 enthusiastically, and this is the first time in awhile when I tried to upvote and realized I'd already done so. It's a short, sweet, shiver-inducing piece that merits successive rereads.