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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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While the woman is busy making what appears to be a peanut butter sandwich, Fup slinks out of the trees and settles onto an old, mossy log nearby. Undetected still, Fup yawns dramatically.
"Honey," the woman calls quietly to her husband, "look: a cat."
A head pokes out from the tent's front flap. "A cat?"
"Quiet! You'll scare it away!"
Wiggums appears next, which makes enough sense to the campers — Fup and Wiggums look somewhat alike; and if one cat is lost in the woods, why not two? But then Bear saunters into the clearing. "Another," the man notices. "A Siamese."
There's hardly time to consider this latest surprise before Zooey trots down the last bit of trail, bypassing the campers and cats entirely, and heading straight for the woman's forgotten sandwich. But he doesn't eat it. Instead, he sits immediately in front of it, stares at it, and lets out a loud, impatient sigh.
"Here," the woman tells Zooey, "we can share," and she tears the sandwich in two.
"Who takes cats hiking?" her husband asks.
Not a moment later, the horse approaches. As Joe steps off the trail, ducking under low branches, the backpackers watch without comment. Their cozy, makeshift campsite has suddenly become quite crowded.
"She thinks she's woken up in Narnia," Fup whispers.
Bear turns to Zooey. "Go get some wood for a campfire," he suggests, and Zooey jogs off toward the sound of trickling water — because first he needs a drink to wash the sticky peanut butter down.
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