Must Worship Cats (Miracle Interrupted) by Ramer Edie

Author:Ramer, Edie [Ramer, Edie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Walrus Books
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Cat knew about lakes from her first Milwaukee home, and now she’d discovered one in Miracle. Fish came from lakes, so lakes were good. Looking across the water, Cat could see the other side. It wasn’t wide, but it was long like a snake, winding around the town.

Another time Cat would walk around it and explore all the places. She wanted to know everything about her new home. But today wasn’t the day to find all the answers, not with her leg still on the mend. And when the tip of her ear brushed against tall weeds, it stung. Maybe she wouldn’t go too far from Sarah’s house today.

Her attention was drawn back to the water. From what she’d observed, humans got excited about water. Not her. Just looking at it, she felt...wet. And cold. She disliked both.

She liked her water contained. In a drinking bowl or a toilet.

Except for the water, the place looked familiar. Walking further, she remembered seeing it yesterday. It was close to where she saw the man with the winter eyes who smelled like the sun, the sky and the earth. The man she’d met at the start of her adventure. The one who invited her to his home.

A thought crept into her mind that it might be good to live with him. These fields must be filled with mice that needed killing.

Then she remembered the boy. Cody. And she remembered the woman. Sarah.

Cat warmed inside. Even Marsh seemed all right. Not as nice as Sarah, but Cat thought once she put her mark all over him, he would soften. She could do it. Except for the man in the golf home — and Pastor Jim from yesterday — she had nothing against men. They could feed, water and pet her as well as any woman.

The itch she’d felt this morning was almost gone. Only a tiny tickle left, and for the moment tiny tickles didn’t count.

Gazing across the water, she could see small homes on the other side. A breeze ruffled her fur and she turned away from the lake, toward the houses.

Unlike Milwaukee, the houses here didn’t go on and on, and Cat saw that they were ending. She slowed. The last few were falling apart, as if someone hadn’t lived in them for a long time. Behind them was a wooded area. But not a woods like the other side, where the trees stood tall and the sun shone through the branches onto the ground. The trees in this area were tangled together, too close to each other. They blocked the sunlight, and that absence of light created blackness.

She sniffed and a smell wormed its way into her nostrils — the smell of something...rotten.

Evil.

Her fur stood up along her spine. She turned toward the part of the town she hadn’t been to yet. As she wove through the tall, dry grasses of an unkempt lawn, she heard traffic coming from a road up ahead. She recognized the revving motor of a speeding car.

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