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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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Wiggums's farm is plush. Pasture and woods, a barn and a stable — and family. Fup's country cousins (Wiggums, Barleycorn, Midget, Carbuncle, and Eliza) have been anticipating her arrival for days. For the cats it's like being able to breathe again: being around familiar faces after trudging so many tired miles.
Tucked into a pocket of pines sits the farmhouse. Its giant covered porch overlooks a long pasture. Afternoon shadows creep closer toward the house. Bear, sprawled across a weathered but immensely comfortable sofa, suggests, "We should spend summers here, escape the city heat."
With a chance to relax finally, it occurs to Fup how sore she is from all the walking. She tells Wiggums, "Maybe we just won't leave. We'll subsist on mice and sparrows."
"And mallards," Bear adds.
The mallard snorts. This is what he gets for hanging out with cats.
Wiggums informs Fup, "Your sisters are thoroughly enjoying the bookstore, by the way. Ro spends all day in the aisles, interacting with customers. Clara apparently prefers the attic. She asked me to ask you where the extra catnip balls are stashed."
Zooey lies a bit apart, off by himself on the mat at the top of the stairs. In place of green pasture in front of the porch he imagines his own yard: the familiar dogwood and rhododendron, the one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight steps down to the sidewalk. And, the worst, his housemates going about their days without him.
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