There was a very loud bang on my apartment door, one that caused me to startle a lot more than it should have but considering the fact that I hadn’t been expecting any guests, I felt like it was safe to say that it was a justifiable reaction. My eyes fell down to Cerberus, and it took me a full second to realise that I was waiting for him to start barking at the door in the same way that he had been doing when Susan had been there—and I was sure that it must have been her again. But he didn’t do that this time. He didn’t even look like he was considering doing it, which was an even bigger confusion to me. Why wasn’t he doing anything? Why had he behaved in one way earlier, and now, in a completely different one? I could barely comprehend what was going on, barely comprehend what the chan

