"Are We Being Looked At?"




This was after a few days in the house. By then, they were able to come and sit with us without running away.

The night we got them was the day before I was going to go and try to get my UAE Driver's License. That night they pulled a vanishing act, and in the morning, when we got up, we couldn't find them anywhere. Where could they have gone...?

I walked out of the apartment and all the way down the stairs -- 21 floors! -- to try and see if they'd snuck out, somehow, but no luck. They weren't in the couch or under it, or hiding in the bookshelves, or... where were they?

I went off to take the test, or try to, anyway -- another story, there -- and by the time I came back, Ceej had found them. They were in the couch after all: balled up in a corner so small that the first time we'd looked, we didn't even see them.

Whew!