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| The Atenstone bitesize 4. | |
| By Songster | ||||
| 24 January 2007 | ||||
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Instalment 4. Realising she was sitting there with her mouth open Tuppence shut it and thought the fact that the cat could speak was so ridiculous she couldn’t feel surprised at anything it might say. “Would you mind not thinking about me as an ‘it’?” said the cat. I’m actually a ‘he’ and, as I have said, I‘m a God.” Tuppence tried to speak but her mouth seemed suddenly to be dry and, in any case, what could she say? Finding Tuppence didn’t challenge his claim, the cat went on to explain, “More correctly, I am what people of this world called a god for thousands of years. I am a being which, in its true form, needs not air to breathe nor food to eat, cannot be harmed by fire or frost and is not bound by time or space. I have supreme power over this planet and all life upon it, for I am Ra, god of the Aten, which you call the sun. He stopped speaking as the door flew open. Amber burst in with Jade not far behind. “We heard you talking to someone,” she said. “We might have guessed it was a cat.” Her words faltered as she realised that the space where she had seen the cat, just seconds before, was now empty. “Where is it?” said Amber, “Did you see it Jade?” “No, it didn’t come out past me, let’s find it.” “How dare you come creeping up the stairs to spy on me?” Tuppence shouted. They peered under her bed, in her wardrobe, behind the curtains and everywhere a cat could fit into. Despite poking their noses into every possible place in her room, they found no cat “Where is it,” said Amber furiously. “I saw it, where is it, Tuppence?” “There is no cat, you must have imagined it, now get out of my room.” “Are you three quarrelling again?” it was Mike’s voice. “No Daddy,” Jade sang out. “We’ll tell Dad,” Amber whispered. “You know he said we can’t have a cat, we live too near a busy road.” “So tell him if you like,” Tuppence said, “There is no cat, there never was.” Amber and Jade, grumbling, clattered down the stairs. Tuppence could see what Amber and Jade had not noticed. Above the chest of drawers was a faint cat-shaped shimmer in the air. She closed the door and, sitting on her bed, stared the shimmering air. A shadow formed, gradually solidifying into the cat. “I might have guessed you could disappear too,” she said. “Unfortunately,” he said, “it only works for me, not for something that might be on me, such as water. You saw the rain-water shimmering even though you couldn’t see me. As for disappearing, I just think people out of seeing me when I need to. You saw me in your mind just now and, because I am here, you are able to see me in reality. Now you’ve done it once you’ll be able to do it anytime. If I’m here you’ll see me but others will not unless I want them to.” “The thing is,” she said, “If you really are a powerful god, what are you doing disguised as a cat?” “It’s a long, sorry story,” he said, “but before I begin to explain, I’m actually very hungry. Do you suppose you could give me something to eat?” “I’ll see what I can find,” she said. She wasn’t sure whether he would have normal cat tastes, there wasn’t much in the fridge that she thought a cat would eat. She opened a tin of beans and had begun heating them when the door opened. She started guiltily. “You should have eaten more at tea-time,” said Mum. “Don’t forget to wash up.” Relieved that she hadn’t been sent back to her room without any food, Tuppence took the beans and some left over cheese and tomato pizza. “It’s very tiresome, all this living as a mortal,” said the cat as he tucked in with every appearance of enjoyment. At last he finished his meal, cleaned his whiskers and settled down to tell his story.
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