Kittywood by Darcy Pattison

Author:Darcy Pattison [Pattison, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mims House

Director Esha

T

he next week, Angel sat outside Director Esha’s door. Waiting. Over thirty minutes already. She’d been told to come and talk to the director about the beach video. It hadn’t done well. But what was there to talk about? Instead, she hoped to explain the Underdog Cat ideas.

Comfortable, colorful pillows lined one wall for cats, while chairs for humans lined another wall. By now, though, Angel was pacing.

“Much longer?” Angel asked the human receptionist, Miss Vanessa. Her hair color was almost the same red-gold as Director Esha’s fur. Angel wondered if that was on purpose.

“You can’t rush her,” Miss Vanessa said. “She’s still listening to the new sound recordings.”

Wade Abyssinian, Director Esha’s husband, was famous for his sound recordings done “in the wild.” He might record the sound of a boat bumping against a dock, or a fountain splashing. Once, he recorded a beehive, and it became the background sound for a summer video of cats walking in a flower meadow. The video ranked well, and comments always mentioned the beehive sounds. Interesting soundtracks were part of Malachi-Glenys’s unique videos.

The door slammed open. “Angel!” called Director Esha.

Squawking birds called from the director’s office.

Angel turned, uncertain.

“Listen to this! Wade’s just come back from a trip to a zoo. He recorded some parrots. What do you think? Would it work with your beach video? We could digitally add a parrot flying across the video.”

Angel edged into the large office. The walls were covered with paintings of birds. From elaborate to simple frames, from gigantic to small, the paintings were a wild splash of color making the room a jungle of birds.

Eyes wide, Angel looked from the director to Mr. Wade. The Abyssinians were both the same color. Wade was slightly larger, but otherwise, they almost looked like twins. They stood confidently—

Of course they’re confident, Angel told herself. They run this kennel. It was just SO different from Majestic Kennels and Director Stanley.

“Um.” Angel tried to imagine the video with a parrot.

“Yes!” Director Esha said. “I’m glad you agree. We’ll get editing on it right away. And we’ll rerelease the video. It was only number nineteen for the week. But we do this often, reedit the film and release it again. Tweak it. We usually get some lift in rankings. Maybe it’ll go up to twelve or thirteen.”

Angel blinked. She had no idea that they could even DO that. Did Majestic Kennels ever rerelease a video?

“Now, was there anything else?”

Mind blank, Angel just stared.

Director Esha tapped on the recorder to turn off the parrot song. “If not…”

“Oh, yes,” Angel said. “I wanted to explain the back story for Underdog Cat. It’s been a great role for me, and—”

Director Esha shook her head and shoved to her feet. “We’ve already discussed that. We’ll do an Underdog Cat video, but not all that nonsense about an origin story. If that’s all, I have to get to a videotaping.” She swept past Angel into the reception area. “Vanessa, get us a reservation at the Gledhill Fish Company for lunch.

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