What the Cat Knew by P.D. Workman

Author:P.D. Workman [Workman, P.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman

Chapter Seventeen

When Ling was gone, Reg felt like she had done all that she could. She needed to have a bite to eat and then she could lie down and go to sleep and replenish her energy. When Ling came back in a day or two, having decided to accept the story Reg told her, then they could take the next step. Reg would describe what she could remember from Warren’s memories, Ling would identify the men, and the witches would help to break the spell, releasing Warren from his magical coma. They would all live happily ever after.

In an ideal world, which, so far, Black Sands had not turned out to be.

Reg ate peanut butter straight out of the jar, topped up Starlight’s water dish, and headed to the bed. Starlight, disgruntled by this treatment, followed her, yowling and complaining. Reg kept an eye on him to make sure he wasn’t going to attack her legs, and climbed into bed. She wrapped herself up in the blanket and closed her eyes, sinking into the pillow.

In a few minutes, Starlight had jumped up onto the bed, but Reg was too close to sleep to be bothered to push him back off. As long as he didn’t bite her ankles, she didn’t care, and her ankles were well-wrapped in the blanket. Starlight snuggled against her, making a warm little pocket against her, and he started to purr. Reg drifted off. Feeling glad for once that she had adopted a cat and had someone warm and comforting to keep her warm. Better than the boyfriends she’d had over the years.

She couldn’t have been asleep for more than a few minutes when Starlight got up abruptly. He meowed as if answering some call, walked over top of her, and jumped to the windowsill. Reg tried to just go back to sleep, but his behavior was disquieting, and she found that she couldn’t close her eyes and return to her state of unconsciousness again.

“Starlight? What’s the matter? What do you see out there?” she asked him.

Maybe there was a bird or a squirrel or some other type of wildlife in the yard. They were close enough to wild country that there might even be a deer. Or a gator.

Reg definitely couldn’t go back to sleep thinking that there might be a gator in the yard. Even if she wasn’t outside and knew that Starlight wasn’t outside, it still scared her.

“What is it, kitty? Can’t you just come back to the bed?”

He didn’t even turn and look at her, but put his paws up on the glass as if trying to get out. He was definitely watching something out there.

With the blanket wrapped around her, Reg slid her feet off the bed and shuffled over to the window. It was dark outside. Not full dark, but pretty close. If there was a gator outside, she wasn’t going to be able to see it.

But she did see something. Not a shape down low to the ground, but something upright, moving against the trees.

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