stillbird dreamed that she was borne along as fast as wind , on the back of the cat , through that same land , and then the cat turned into the rust-red mare and they leaped over a wide , flat river , and then she became the cat , prowling the forest , sniffing out the mare , stalking the mare , and then it was a woman she found , bloody and dead in the cave , and stillbird realized , still dreaming , that she was all of them .