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“You think
she knows how to shift, Sid?” Jeremy asked.
“From the
looks of it,” Sidiro replied while scratching behind the animal’s ear, “I think she
was born a cat. She seems more comfortable in this form she’s in now.”
Sidiro held
the cat in his arms as he walked out the park. He had one hand below the feline’s
body and another stroking the side that was turned up to him. She was light… and
soft. He continued talking to her in a droning voice, trying to distract her
from the honking
cars and the squealing children on the street. When they were standing just in front of
his house, the cat purred contentedly. And by the time that Sid had opened his bedroom
door and turned up the coverlet, she was sound asleep.
His panicky
housemate
The mattress
dented as Sidiro turned on his side of the bed. He lifted his sleepladen eyelids and
yawned. He stretched his arms, but he was not able to extend them to their
full length because that was when he noticed the lump of fur looking at him.
The cat was
staring at him with a look that he thought was curious and doubting. For a
moment, Sidiro just lay there and stared back at her. When he finally sat up
and scratched
the back of his head, the cat bent her head to the left as she continued to observe him,
one ear perked up in interest.
“I can’t say
you haven’t greeted me good morning,” he said. “I think you already beat me to
it.”
The cat
blinked, then uncrossed its front paws and sat on its haunches.
“You up for
breakfast?”
Sidiro got
up, finally stretched his arms over his head and swung them around to loosen his
muscles. Next tried to coax his kitty out of the bed, but she kept looking daggers at
the door, as if it was something evil. He gave up on trying to lead her to the kitchen a
while later, and instead brought his own bowl of cereal and a pack of biscuits into the
bedroom. As he spooned the cereal to his mouth, he kept stealing glances at the animal
beside him.
