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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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The road kept rolling underneath them. The tires complained. Penny cleaned herself incessantly. Had she always been so obsessive about grooming?
If you blocked out the noise of the tires and the music on the radio, if you ignored the whining engine and excluded the roar of cars and trucks passing and falling back on either side, if you forbade those voluminous intruders access and focused instead on your immediate surroundings, you heard only your mother lapping her fur on the one side and your sister's shallow breathing on the other.
And if you closed your eyes — this might explain why Ro had closed hers, for all Fup knew — with eyes closed you could imagine Clara's sweet breath alongside, and Bruno's raspy breathing as well. Bruno, whose every inhalation seemed filtered through a sieve of loose pebbles.
The road kept rolling underneath them. Until, finally, the car drifted to its right, slowed, and soon enough rolled to a complete stop. All three cats' eyes were wide open when one of the back seats folded down in front of them and a white sheet of daylight rushed in. Then into the trunk strutted Bruno, casual as a cat can be.
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