It was 8:00AM on a Saturday morning, not the time for anyone sane (or anyone who had hit the sack at 2:00AM) to be up. Someone in the house was up however, as noted by some kid's program (and those hideous flying barbie ads) on TV permeated the entire house.

Sanguine (nicknamed Gweeni-beanie-buggeth much to his chagrin - or that's what I'm guessing the look on his regal little face is), the cat of the house, was doing his usual rounds, Bek' room, corridor, kitchen, laundry, grab bite to eat in laundry, kitchen, corridor, Bek's room. Graymalkin (just Malki for short) was sleeping on the end of the bed. Bek, lazy as ever, was only just beginning to rise from the depths of sleep and bordering on consciousness.

A weird scratching sound broke in on Bek's half dreamy state. A kind of blurred "what the hell is that" briefly crossed her mind. Being the epitome of all laziness she didn't perform the very simple action of rolling over to investigate and continued doing what she did best.

It wasn't too much longer before a scritching at her shoulder attracted her attention. Rolling fully onto her back, Bek looked down into two blue eyes in a round fluffy face. The pudgy little kitten she'd nicknamed Darkness stared right back at her and exclaimed "MEW!" Bek blinked as her left eardrum tweaked but didn't really think about it (until her ear started hurting for the rest of the day). Her extremely slow reaction time was kicking into 'shocked'. "Wow," she murmured at the kitten, who stretched a little longer than her hand if you didn't count its tail (that's about 12cm I think with the tail but I don't have a measuring device and my estimations suck), "you made it up onto the bed."

Darkness trotted towards the end of the bed. Bek followed with her eyes and noticed the runt of the litter (who has actually caught up with his middle sister in size and is the first to eat solid food), an interestingly marked little critter called Ittibitty the Kitty - or just Itti - was already at the foot of the bed. A light spring later and Gweeni had joined the party.

Darkness was exploring the bed when she realised what the gap between the wall and the mattress was. Her mad scrambling to get back up attracted the attention of Uncle Gweeni. The large black cat sauntered over and immediately began playing "kill the mole" and biting her head. Bek glared at him.

"Gweeni be gentle." Gweeni glared back at Bek and sauntered off. Darkness meanwhile successfully scrambled up and went on another rove around the bed. Bek in the meantime, got up, pulled her laptop over and started reading newsgroups. In bed of course. A sciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch thud later Darkness was back on the floor. Bek smirked. Had to get down somehow right?

Copyright © Bek Grifyn
November 18, 2001