The Cat Returns – The Christmas Case
The snow
was falling lightly as Yoshioka Haru arrived at the Crossroads Café. She looked
around, but she didn’t see Muta anywhere. ‘Where is that cat?’ she asked
herself. ‘Probably busy at the Bureau.’ She decided to get a coffee and wait.
Haru
didn’t have to wait long. “Muta!” she called out. It didn’t matter that some of
the other patrons turned to look at her.
The
large cat came up to her. “Hi to you to,” he said.
“How are
Toto and the Baron?” she asked, as she usually did.
“They’re
fine,” Muta answered. “But they miss you.”
“It has
been busy at school. But with Christmas coming, I will be able to visit the Bureau.”
“You can
come this evening?”
“Yes,”
Haru answered. She had considered visiting the Bureau considering that it was
just over a week before Christmas. She finished the coffee. “Let’s go then.”
“I knew
you were going to say that,” Muta said with a groan.
Five
minutes later, Haru emerged from a side alley into the European style square the
Bureau called home. ‘I’ll have to remember that way,’ she thought as she saw Muta
emerge from a different side alley. She had just found another new route into
the square. With the Square lying in a kind of side space, the routes to and
from it didn’t exactly adhere to Euclidian geometry. ‘Of course I don’t always
end up here,’ she thought. Most often a new route lead back to the Crossroads,
but sometimes to different places.
One time
Toto had to rescue her. Haru shook her head as she approached the Bureau.
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