This feels like the punchline of a really bad joke, I thought as the trio petted me. Or rather, Ker and Aristide petted me as Noctus watched. A werewolf, an elf king, and a vampire find a cat—HEY! “What gender do you suppose it is?” Noctus lifted me up into the air and twirled me around so my rear faced him. I tucked my tail and curled my entire butt up, doing an extreme cat version of a gym bro’s calisthenic leg raises. “Ker, hold its tail,” Noctus said. No, no, Ker, don’t do that. I curled my tail even more tightly against my body as the werewolf tried to gently tug it up. There’s a lot of
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