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Don wouldn’t like Cat’s current actions, but there were things he needed to do. And if Don called him out on this, Cat would say that he needed space to think, and would argue that this was how he worked, would point to his past record of doing this exact thing. Don might make a scene of Cat ignoring instructions, but nothing official existed in writing, and the words the man had used in their conversation contained the usual Authority ambiguities. Don had no official comeback.
Not that this would stop Don taking further steps against Cat, of course. But only if Cat’s presence out here was reported.
Cat walked the streets of the districts around Ross, conscious that he was avoiding thinking of his situation, pretending to himself that nothing had changed. But if that was the
