a little present

[In the evening, Laurent will return to his assigned dorm to find the same fat cat from the café he once carried to the register to make his order, now sitting in a perfect calico loaf upon crisp bedsheets. It blinks drowsily in Laurent's direction, having woken from a several-hour nap.

Directly beside the cat is a notebook, folded open to the first page — where Laurent will find a painstaking list of information detailing proper feline diet, toys and play, cleanliness, and behavioral training. A small bag on the floor contains cat treats, cat nip, a box of high-end canned tuna, a feather teaser, fake mice, a plain and unadorned collar, and a variety of other helpful items. It is, essentially, a cat-owner-starter-pack.

There's no signature. Only a black cat-eared headband, left on Laurent's pillow.]

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