Nicola GriffithThe Lord of Light Casts No Shadow
The Lord of Light casts no shadow…George, the International Cat of Mystery, has many clandestine skills. On this Çaturday, he has added one more: to move in broad daylight without so much as casting a shadow…
Also, I frankly just love the deliciously ambiguous and vaguely ominous phrase The Lord of Light Casts No Shadow. I suspect it may reemerge as the title of something or other in the future.
Just between you and me, George, aged six, lately has been looking a little bulked-out, more like a portly Victorian gentleman than a slinking operative. Though none of it is fat: he’s just a big, muscly cat.
We will rebuild him, bigger and bulkier than before…Perhaps it’s this worry, that he may be becoming a bit too substantial to continue as ICOM has prompted the development of his new skill. I await further developments with interest.
Meanwhile, as though to torment George, Charlie (the same age as George, give or take a few minutes) seems to be taking the opposite route to maturity: he’s looking lean and hungry.
Young Charlie has a lean and hungry look…If you look closely and from a slightly different angle you can see where—more than five months later—the fur has not yet quite grown back over his war wounds.
The cold shoulderMostly it doesn’t bother him—and mostly I no longer notice—but when it’s especially cold he tends to go out a bit less than he did. No doubt this is partly reaching maturity and the consequent need to sleep 85% of the time like many obligate predators but perhaps he also feels the cold in that shoulder. And perhaps we’ll never know…
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