Cat Kin by Nick Green

Author:Nick Green [Green, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781905537730
Publisher: Strident Publishing Limited

Ben wondered about calling her back. He wanted to explain. Tell her what had happened with his mother. Tiffany should know. She needed to know.

‘Benny!’ Dad called from the living room. ‘I’ve made a pot of tea. You want to come through and watch the boxing with me? I’ll tell you by round two who’s going to win.’

‘Just a second,’ Ben mumbled. His father had been unbearably merry ever since Ben had shown up on Wednesday morning, dazed after a night walking the streets. Not that Dad knew the real reason. He thought Mum was letting him have more ‘access’ at last.

Alone in the tiny spare room of his father’s flat, Ben hugged his knees and watched the pigeons scratch on the windowsill. His memory was stuck in one groove, as if by replaying it over and over he could erase it, make it not have happened. His hand had struck at Mum quicker than thought, as electric current leaps from a wire. The force of it had thrown her across the kitchen. Invisible claws had scored her face. It was no enemy, no hired thug who had done this to his mother. It was him.

He clutched his right hand by the wrist, as if it were a snake he had to strangle.

‘How could you?’ he whispered. ‘How could you do that?’

‘Ben?’ Dad knocked on the door. ‘They’re coming into the ring.’

‘In a minute!’ he snapped.

All those hours of practising pashki and he’d never thought what it was doing to him.

I don’t know what got into me.

The cat-self he had awakened, his Mau body, had reflexes too fast for him to control. If he was hit, he would hit back, no matter who got hurt. And this thing was strong too, strong enough to knock a grown woman off her feet. He shrank inside, just as he had when he was five and had accidentally set the waste paper basket on fire, thinking the whole flat, the whole world, would burn down. This was the same feeling. He hadn’t meant this to happen. What had he done?

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