( He murmurs, and takes his time with the expulsion of the last ounce of water that friction can tease free of fur, palms willing. She is a nimble thing, a fitting size for a mouser or a spy or a child's plaything. He cannot say. )
If she were, she would be forgetting she is my guest. ( Remember, madam, and he does not turn the edge of his sharp teeth on her — this be your captain. ) And that would do her a great disservice.
( And the threat there, inevitable: that a cat who walks the plank might land on her feet in water — and still drown thereafter. )
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( He murmurs, and takes his time with the expulsion of the last ounce of water that friction can tease free of fur, palms willing. She is a nimble thing, a fitting size for a mouser or a spy or a child's plaything. He cannot say. )
If she were, she would be forgetting she is my guest. ( Remember, madam, and he does not turn the edge of his sharp teeth on her — this be your captain. ) And that would do her a great disservice.
( And the threat there, inevitable: that a cat who walks the plank might land on her feet in water — and still drown thereafter. )