When Annan entered the Bedroom, Lily was propped up on the bed, stretching out a hind leg like a chicken drumstick as she groomed herself. She looked up and saw him walking with a slight limp.
"You're learning to walk like a cat!"
Lily jumped off the bed to pounce on him for a cuddle, but then she remembered why she had been abandoned, and her steps slowed.
Annan waited for Lily to leap into his arms. When she stopped, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Lily backed away a few steps. "Cat's afraid you'll throw Cat away."
Annan picked Lily up under her forelegs and held her close. "I won't. You can do whatever you want."
"Then can Cat play with you?"
"Of course."
Lily raised a fluffy paw and patted Annan's cheek.
Annan thought Lily could not only talk, but was also smarter than many cats. She was almost on par with a White Dragon.
Annan was playing with Lily in the Bedroom when footsteps sounded in the living room.
Martin stood in the doorway, his messy brown hair sticking up like a bird's nest. "Cousin, I'm hungry."
Annan looked at Lily. Her Cat-Eye Squad could do all sorts of things for him. Then he looked at Martin, who was good for nothing but eating, and made up his mind. "I'm going to the Imperial Capital tomorrow. I'll send you back in a bit!"
"Cousin, no!"
But now that Annan had Lily, he no longer needed Martin's company.
“We can only pour our Love into one person...” Martin lamented, looking utterly lost.
Annan frowned. "Where did you hear that?"
"In a book."
"What book?"
"The kind that makes us cry and makes us laugh."
Annan didn't trust Martin to keep his mouth shut, so he warned him, "Remember, if you