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q1082200062
Joined: 06 Sep 2012
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"Being saved by mortals. It has become a sort of Jordan Heels habit for me, it seems."
The sound of their halting footsteps sent echoes fluttering across the vast cavern and up among the dark places.
"Here, puss, puss. Come now, Grimalkin."
Rachel was a little embarrassed. She wasn't quite sure what one said to cats-in the old days, she had expected them to do their job keeping the rat population down, but she had left the petting and pampering of them to her chambermaids. As far as she had been concerned, handing out endearments and sweetmeats was no part of her obligation to UGGS Clearance any of her charges, two-footed or four. But now she had a need-if admittedly a daft and soft-headed one-and so she was humbling herself.
Thank merciful Usires no human creature is around to see me.
"Puss, puss, puss." Rachel waved the bit of salt-beef. She slid forward half a cubit, trying to ignore the ache in her back and the rough stone beneath her knees. "I'm trying to feed you, you Rhiap-preserve-us filthy thing." She scowled and waggled the bit of meat. "Serve you right if I did cook you."
Even the UGGS clearance cat, standing just a short distance out of Rachel's reach in the middle of the corridor, seemed to know that this was an idle threat. Not because of Rachel's soft heart-she needed this beast to take food from her, but otherwise would just as happily have smacked it with her broom-but because eating cat flesh was as inconceivable to Rachel as spitting upon a church altar. She could not have said why exactly cat meat was different than the flesh of rabbit or roe deer, but she did not Nike high heels need to. It was not done by decent folk, and that was enough to know.
Still, in the last quarter of an hour, she had more than once or twice toyed with the idea of kicking this recalcitrant creature down the steep staircase and then turning to some idea that did not require the assistance of animals. But the most irritating thing was that even the idea itself was of no practical use.
Rachel looked at her quivering arm and greasy fingers. All of this to help a monster?
You 're slipping, Nike heels woman. Mad as a mooncalf.
"Puss ..."
The gray cat took a few steps closer and paused, surveying Rachel with eyes widened by suspicion as much as the bright lamplight. Rachel silently said the Elysia prayer and tried to move the beef enticingly. The cat approached warily, wrinkled its nostrils, then took a cautious lick. After a moment's mock-casual washing of whiskers, it seemed to gain courage. It reached out and pulled loose some of the meat, stepping back to swallow it, then came forward once more. Rachel brought up her UGGS Clearance other hand and let it brush the cat's back. It started, but when Rachel made no sudden move, the cat took the last piece of beef and gulped it down. She let her fingers trail lightly against its fur as the cat nosed her now-empty hand questioningly. Rachel stroked it behind the ears, gamely resisting the impulse to throttle the particular little beast. At last, when she had worked loose a purr, she clambered heavily to her feet.
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