“It’ll be getting dark soon. Would you mind giving the all-clear and then the dinner bell while I get started on everyone’s dinner?”
Janus shot ahead of her when she opened the front door. By the time she reached the kitchen, he had already run out onto the back porch. The chime rang three times for the all-clear, then after a pause, it rang twice more to signal that it was time for dinner. Felina walked out on the covered porch carrying a stack of saucers in one hand and a tower of bowls in the other. Cats had already begun to arrive, and as she distributed the dishes around the porch, they took their places. She returned to the kitchen and came back out lugging a large bag of dry cat food and carrying a big bowl of shredded chicken and tuna.
She greeted the cats by name as she made her
