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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Bear
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Zooey
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Fup sprawls across a large, flat rock. Bear approaches and without hesitation begins to clean Fup's belly and legs.
Zooey looks away. He starts to clean himself, but his heart isn't in it, so he stops licking and clears himself a bed of upturned dirt, instead. Back in the city, he considers, any minute now the mailman will approach his house and wonder where the yellow dog has gone. He moans and shuts his eyes.
Miles from the city. It's real, suddenly, this undertaking. "Where are we going to sleep tonight?" Bear wants to ask, but he holds back the question and continues to groom Fup.
Fup counts stray clouds migrating across the sky as Bear licks and licks.
When Fup was a kitten — not even a year old because this was before her family moved to the room behind the post office, when for all Fup knew of the world its edges might have been carved along the Waldo County line — Penny would on stormy nights groom the girls until they fell asleep. The soothing always knocked them out. And now Zooey has nodded off, Fup notices, recognizing his soft snore.
Bear shifts forward and starts cleaning Fup's shoulders and head; he grooms Fup's neck and, finally, her favorite, her ears, until she can't help it, why bother, she gives herself over to sleep.
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