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Miss Sekhht"
"My dear lady," said Priift for understatement" She checked herself and instead poured the re into a tea-cup and handed that over
"You are a thoughtful thing, aren’t you, little one?" The werecat took the ht it odd that Prim blushed so much at the compliht you ith the Vanaras but they put you in a birdcage But you can’t be with the Rakshasas – they put you in a flower cart You aren’t one of Dama’s, so who?" Rue decided on the direct approach She tried to e charave a self-satisfied sirl, I am cat I don’t work for anyone"
"Then why did you involve yourself?"
"For exactly the same reasons"
Quesnel snorted "Cats"
Miss Sekhht back to their first"You were curious, you wanted to meet the world’s only ain?"
"My, noho values herself highly?" said the werelioness
But Rue was beginning to finally get the werecat’s ht of Miss Sekhmet and her behaviour as entirely cat-like, even when human, it actually made odd sense "You’re exactly like Footnote"
Percy, as still ers of preemptive publication, rejoined the conversation at that "I say, what?"
Rue laughed Miss Sekhentle hich the werelioness coaxed and co in and out of her legs, with a purr Primrose, of course, was necessary to befriend for she controlled the ship’s larder Sekhmet also teased Percy with exactly too little infores with Quesnel, not tohim when he flirted And then there was her, Rue Hoas the cat wooing her? Blasé attitude, slight reverence for Rue’sof which Rue wasthat all of them – Quesnel, Percy, Primrose, and Rue – were taken in by a mystery
Rue leaned forward "Percy has a cat, nail put it, Footnote has a hu suspicion that we – all of us here on The Spotted Custard – are about to have a cat too I have a suspicion because, right now, I feel as though we are being had by a cat"
"Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldahed "So where areyou can secure Full-rinned back Excellent Now I can winkle out all her secrets "That’s assu a bit much, isn’t it, Miss Sekhmet?"
"Call me Tasherit," said the werelioness "It’ll be nice to have a pride again"