Head On (Lock In, #2)

by John Scalzi

“You don’t understand,” Vann said. “Once you feed a cat tuna, it doesn’t go back to regular cat food. You try to feed that cat regular food now, it will just stare at you accusingly. And if you don’t produce the tuna, the cat will go and shit in your shoes.”

“We have a witness protection cat?!?” The twins looked at Donut with obvious excitement. Donut gazed up at them.

I looked at Fowler, who had had a bullet applied directly to her forehead.

I reached up and took a book down from the shelf, a classic children’s book from Catherynne Valente.