“Yes it was,” he said, his gaze on the world beyond car.
He was grateful when she asked for no details.
“It suits you, actually,” she said. “It makes you look rugged.”
He smiled, realising the Loud Purr had been right, after all.
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THEY stopped once to make a telephone call, a second time to adjust Manky’s straps when he began bouncing alarmingly and a third time when he fell off altogether. Nevertheless, they reached Asquith as evening fell, and Oscar gave directions to Aschurer Street, located in a modest part of the city above Asquith’s inner cove.
After pulling up outside his apartment building, they removed Manky from where he’d fallen asleep beneath a little tarpaulin, which they’d resorted to wrapping him in during their third stop. Despite his discomfort,
