The Tomcats’ trial
“‘What are we going to do with him?’
At some point the cats started to decide my fate.
‘He is a criminal! He should pay for it!’ they all jumped in.
“The strays were accusing me of attempted murder, of selling cats’ internal organs, of espionage. Besides all these, I was also guilty of compromising their hunt!
‘He should pay for it! He should pay for it!’ I was now hearing as if in a dream.
“I felt completely dizzy since I was hanging upside down. My blood had come to my head, I could not think properly. The injured Tomcat probably took pity on me. I could see him, as if through a mist, sitting separately. His eye was swollen, red, and the tears did not stop flowing, trickling down his whiskers. I think he realised that everything that had happened to him was his o
