Every night at three, my old cat starts calling down the hallway, and I lie awake wondering what he wants. It took a vet visit to show me it was never really about the noise.
I found the wet patch on my duvet at 6 a.m., still warm, and my cat was sitting on the windowsill as if nothing had happened. She wasn’t being spiteful, I was sure of that much. But what was she trying to tell me?
It is 4am and something hits the laminate with a crack. I lie there in the dark, waiting to find out what my cat has decided to do with my glass this time.
The bangs start long before the sky lights up, and by the time mine did, she had already vanished. What I did in the hour before dusk made all the difference.
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