Cat Under Fire (2007)
Cat Under Fire
“The brick paving was warm beneath the cats’ hurrying paws.
Intent on their destination, neither cat spoke. Dulcie was all nerves. Joe was edgy with a need to run—to climb—to fight. They found it hard to stay focused, their spirits, their cat souls, wanted to be elsewhere. This was not a good night for measured discipline. The windy moonlight pulled at them, sought mightily to draw them away. They were filled with ancient hungers, with the moon’s wild power, with mysteries surfacing from a vanis...hed past.
Just as the hills above them, so ordinary in daylight, changed under the moon to dangerous veldts and tangled black jungles, so the cats’ souls were changed. Ancient yearnings rode with them, drawing them like addicts toward lost times where medieval shadows fled.
Dulcie glanced at Joe and shuttered her eyes, trying to keep her thoughts on their mission. Slowing her pace, she padded demurely beside him. Leaving the alley, turning up the sidewalk, they put on civilized faces. Bland, kitty faces.MoreLess
Intent on their destination, neither cat spoke. Dulcie was all nerves. Joe was edgy with a need to run—to climb—to fight. They found it hard to stay focused, their spirits, their cat souls, wanted to be elsewhere. This was not a good night for measured discipline. The windy moonlight pulled at them, sought mightily to draw them away. They were filled with ancient hungers, with the moon’s wild power, with mysteries surfacing from a vanis...hed past.
Just as the hills above them, so ordinary in daylight, changed under the moon to dangerous veldts and tangled black jungles, so the cats’ souls were changed. Ancient yearnings rode with them, drawing them like addicts toward lost times where medieval shadows fled.
Dulcie glanced at Joe and shuttered her eyes, trying to keep her thoughts on their mission. Slowing her pace, she padded demurely beside him. Leaving the alley, turning up the sidewalk, they put on civilized faces. Bland, kitty faces.MoreLess
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