[MaC] Breaking the news

[Tara Kunkel]

At 09:05 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:

>--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >> It was agreed then that the three should call in at Mrs
> > >> Evans' flat on the way back up to the party.
> > >>
> > >> This, of course, meant that they came face to face with
> > >> Sweetie, who was stretched out on the sofa.  He looked up
> > >> coldly at the unwarranted intrusion.
> > >
> > > "Right, gents," Philip said, very seriously. "I'm going to try to get 
> back
> > > to the bath, which is where I keep the gauze. I'd keep from getting any
> > > closer to the cat, and try to avoid any sudden movements. Wish me luck."
> > > Suiting deed to word, he began moving, stealthily, towards the bathroom
> > > door, his eyes fixed on the cat.

Normally Braham liked cats. He had even taken to feeding the strays that 
lived around the University when he was home. Something about this 
particular cat made him a bit nervous however. The impulse to laugh at the 
Officer's remark was instantly swallowed up in those cold eyes. Instead he 
swallowed hard and nodded very slowly.


> > Sweetie watched his endeavours with some contempt.  When Philip reached 
> the
> > most vulnerable point of his progress, he yawned widely, and then set to
> > work at cleaning his claws with a series of vicious tugging bites. There
> > was a strange sense that he was preparing his weapons.
>
>Cyril leaned over to Braham as he watched Phillip make his way around
>the cat.  "That cat's a bloody menace, he is," Cyril commented softly.
>"You can hear it yowling all the way upstairs at night.  Louder than
>the air raid sirens sometimes."

Braham nodded. "I had come to believe this apartment may be haunted," he 
said. "Now I know for sure it is. Something wicked this way comes..."