Chapter 4
THE TWINS

As the full moon rose above the tree tops to its highest point in the night time sky, it shown so brilliantly that it appeared to be surrounded by a rainbow halo. Although it was relatively windless at ground level., high above, whisper thin clouds like storm caught bed sheets, raced swiftly but soundlessly to some far unknown destination. The transparent shadows, making the ground below appear as a turbulent rushing river of light and lending a surreal atmosphere to mom’s meadow and the surrounding forests.
Purrfull Pordge sat stoically perched on the log of a fallen tree overlooking the meadow as his brother George was crouching and slinking, tail straight back and twitching, then pouncing at every subtle rustle in the cool meadow grass. Come help me, there are meadow mice everywhere and I can’t seem to catch any, George pleaded to his brother. But Purrfull Pordge’s attention seemed to be somewhere else, as though he were wrestling with disturbing thoughts that scurried across the surface of Pordge’s mind, the way the clouds were dashing before the face of the halo ringed moon, the way that George had been wrestling with meadow grasses.


“I want to go home”, Mr. George complained to his brother Pordge. “I can’t catch any of these silly mice, and the thought of eating them is absurd. I’m starving, and I haven’t been snuggled or had a good purrfull sleep in a nice warm house in a nice warm bed in almost two whole days.” Snuggling purrfully, was what George and Pordge both excelled at. “And besides it’s not raining and I’m tired of hiding in that damp old hole,” George exclaimed. “We can’t” declared Pordge. “We Promised Momma Kitty that we would stay here until she returned and we double promised that no matter how hungry or cold and wet that it got that we would stay hidden until then. We’re not even supposed to be out here in the meadow, and the only reason we are is because you were driving us both nuts with your whining. And besides you’re right, it has stopped raining and we aren’t wet are we.” Purrfull Pordge thought back to earlier in the evening, just after nightfall, when Nohj had been pleadingly calling into the rainy night for them. “Poooordgeeeeee,,,,,Geoooooorgeeeeeeee,,,,kittykit tykittykiittykittykittieeees. Come home”…… Even Pordge had been overcome with a longing to go home.“Besides” said Pordge , “the Neirbos have long since gone to bed . We couldn’t get in until morning anyway.” “Well lets just sneak up to house now” George replied, “I’m sure that there’s food in Momma Kitty’s dishes, and I’m still starving. Then we could sneak into the basement and at least be warm for the rest of the night.”

“We just can’t” said Pordge to George, “remember the mirrors and reflective flat surfaces in the basement. You remember what Mamma Kitty told us. We can’t be the cause of something bad happening to Nohj and Laresh, after all that they have done for us.” “Oh pish posh and harrumph” said George...”Mirror people,,, puddle people,,, what’s next? If you ask me, sometimes, I think that Mamma Kitty has gone completely over to the other side of sanity.” George didn’t know how close to the truth that actually was.“Well, even if she does get a bit batty sometimes, She has always done what she thinks is best for us said Pordge. And I happen to know that Momma Kitty is a lot smarter than she lets on. Besides, I know where we can scare up a bite to eat and have a little bit of fun in the process. Lets go over to the neighbor’s house and get Butch the bulldog to choke himself on his own chain. That should wake up Clareise and you know she always has a nibble or two hidden away just in case you happen to show your pretty face. You know, she’s sweet on you Georgie old boy. Hmmm thought George, Hang Butch, Nibble some kibble while feasting on the vision of Clareise…. “Why Pordgie, sometimes you surprise me” said George. “That sounds like the kind of mischievous idea that I would come with.” “And besides” said Pordge, “we’ve got to eat, and sometimes Momma Kitty can disappear for weeks, and I’m pretty sure there aren’t any puddles between here and there.”



"HEY WE CAN ALWAYS PLAY POSSUM ON THE WAY OVER" says George :-)

"PRECISELY" says Purrfull Pordge ;-)

SWEET says George :-)

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