Kathy Catchpole is scanning for a door. The peacock is scanning her. His tail begins to rise. Kathy Catchpole starts to turn around and Pretty Stabby snaps his tail open. Kathy Catchpole freezes. Dad is humming something that it takes me a second to recognize as the fight music from Star Wars. Mom leans her head on Dad’s shoulder. “I love a Boss Battle,” she says. “So cathartic.”
