That night, after I’d filled Mart, Stephen, and Walter in on my lunch with Daniel in the excruciating detail that they demanded, the four of us clambered down to the floor around our coffee table and started reading the articles Daniel and I had copied. We’d each read an article and highlight anything that felt “murder-worthy” with our assigned color – I had insisted I have blue because it was my favorite – and then pass it on.
The task was made incessantly more difficult by Aslan’s persistent laying on each stack of paper in succession. Someone new to cats might have tried to relocate her, but I was a seasoned cat owner and knew that such tactics only deepened feline resolve. So we simply slid the paper out from under her when we needed it and allowed her to place her girth on the next s
