All I ask of you

All I ask of you from the Phantom of the Opera musical, with Erik's glowing eyes from the chapter Apollo's lyre in the book.

To me, this is the saddest song in the musical. Warning: Gut-spilling below cut!

Now I don't usually draw Erik as a regular cat; if and when I draw him furry he's a lion.

But what @purrlockholmesbooks did here inspired me to draw for you the reactions of cat!Erik on the Lyre listening to this song.

This will serve as my fulfillment of the prompt for today from Purrlock and @nalesnik-z-morela - a dream that never ends. For poor, unhappy Erik? unfortunately, it's an everlasting nightmare.

'Cat'atonic now because

-THANK YOU for making an exception and drawing Cat Erik. (I will be digging through your archives to meet Lion Erik.)

-Don't do this to me, Vlad! I already see his eyes everywhere and now you've added a devastating image to the haunting. I'll go and lie down with a tragic Victorian wasting-away disease, good-bye.