text: [Themes: Slice of life, nonhuman protagonist, animal protagonist, cat]
  
  > Go down
  You spring down to the floor.
  
  Suddenly a loud ringing sound comes from somewhere nearby and it startles you a foot into the air.
  
  > B.
  Just in front of you, the shiny and slippery floor begins and the large shiny things sit. The opposite way, you see softer but equally large things, but also a plant that sits in what looks like a square water bowl. The carpet is soft and it leads to your left, but to your right is the stringy ow that you'll have to climb to get over.
  
  The tall stringy gate bars progress to your right.
  
  You hear a ringing sound. It's pretty loud, and it's coming from nearby.
  
  > F.
  Here enormous metal boxes reach upward from a shiny floor that you can skid across if you run fast enough and suddenly stop. The tallest box is cold, vibrates, and smells like food! The shorter boxes also smell like food, but not as strongly. The whole area smells like trees -- a fresh, outdoors kind of scent, which doesn't make sense, because this is indoors. Goodcat/Badcat is in this room; his scent is strong. You whip your head around but don't see him anywhere. Is he waiting to pounce you? You continue looking around carefully.
  
  Halfway to the ceiling (it seems) a shiny surface ledge runs like a pathway, over a shorter box and connects to the tallest one. It's wider than the ledge in your place. In the middle of the floor is a large brown circle held up by four legs. Underneath it are two smaller versions, with one pulled away from the other. You wind your way around these things and quickly smell what their names are. The large thing is called a table. The smaller things are called chairs (one is His and the other is guest). The names seem strong, but dull. You hope He doesn't name you any of those names.
  
  You hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby.
  
  The phone on the table nearby rings, and it's loud!
  
  > jump on his chair
  You agilely leap upwards into the chair.
  
  You hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby.
  
  The phone on the table nearby rings, and it's loud!
  
  > jump on the table
  You easily jump up on the table, your claws clutching the threaded surface.
  
  This is a small place, a little bit larger than the soft place but not as large as the place around it. If you ran around here, you'd definitely fall off the edges. The floor feels like a bunch of string, tightly wound together and it is arranged in colors and in patterns of things you don't recognize. From here, you can see a shiny surface you could easily jump to, and you can view most of the room and the next room over, which pulls your kittenish heart with what looks like large and soft beds. Taking a quick sniff, you realize that this area is used for eating food, but there is no food here now. You also realize the names of the two objects on the table, and your interest is piqued.
  
  You can see a phone and a remote here.
  
  The phone rings right beside you. It's loud!
  
  > Attack phone
  You attack the phone, trying to Make The Ringing Stop. You smack the curvy part with your paw and send it flying. The ringing stops! But then you hear a concerned female voice talking out of it. It's saying some kind of greeting.
  
  A concerned female voice speaks from the phone right beside you.
  
  kittenish.
  
  > Mew
  You say "Meowr?" to let the voice know that you are here and want to know what's going on. The voice asks you a question that you don't understand, laughs, and then says some other things, and finally it says "goodbye". You know then it will go away and it does.
  
  An artificial voice from the phone repeats itself with strange quiet parts between.
  
  kittenish.
  
  > sniff the phone
  It smells like His hands, because He holds it often. It also smells like His breath, because He talks into it. You find out that it was made far away and sent here on something that travels across water and that inside, it is delicate.
  
  An artificial voice from the phone repeats itself with strange quiet parts between.
  
  > jump on the ledge
  That doesn't look far away. You take a quick look and with a little jump you land safely on the countertop.
  
  From up here, you can see the entire shiny place. It makes you feel powerful and important, like perhaps you controlled the whole area and had a few cat soldiers to do your bidding as well. If it was softer and not so narrow, it would make a great bed. From here, you can jump up to the metal box. The most distinctive smell is the scent of Goodcat/Badcat. He is near.
  
  An artificial voice from the phone on the table repeats itself with strange quiet parts between.
  
  > jump on the ftop
  You leap up to the top with the greatest of ease.
  
  On top of this cold metal cube, you find what you've been expecting the whole time: Goodcat/Badcat. He is a refined grey cat with black stripes who sits with his body perpendicular to yours, his head facing you. He has two large yellow eyes and seems unaffected by your arrival, as though he had been expecting you.
  
  You can see Goodcat/Badcat here.
  
  An artificial voice from the phone on the table repeats itself with strange quiet parts between.
  
  > show the sock to the Cat
  Goodcat/Badcat is unimpressed.
  
  A horrible grating sound comes out of the phone on the table! Goodcat/Badcat makes a disgusted face and his baleful eyes blame you.
  
  > give the sock to the Cat
  Goodcat/Badcat sniffs the air and then sniffs the sock, taking his time to inhale all of its scents. He looks thoughtful for a moment and then rubs you, pressing into your fur one of his secrets. Fascinated, you ponder all the fun you'll have when you chew off a piece of meat-bread and leave it behind the vibrating box for twenty suns so that you too can have a smelly play toy!
  
  kittenish.
  
  > Rub Cat
  You approach him but at the last moment, back off. His fierce stare seems to shout, "How dare you approach when we have not properly greeted one another yet!"
  
  The awful grating sound stops and the phone is silent once again. Goodcat/Badcat exhales loudly and fixes you with an expression that clearly communicates, "Let's not do that again, shall we?" You feel embarrassed but relieved.
  
  > look at the fridge
  Brr! It's cold, but it smells like all kinds of yummy things. He calls this "fridge". Goodcat/Badcat agrees with your assessment, so you naturally rub against it to add your opinion officially to his.
  
  You hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby.
  
  > look under it
  You look under it, but only see the floor.
  
  > Examine boxes
  One of them smells more like water than food, and the other smells like fire and food.
  Both of them have parts that stick out that look like you could walk on them, but they are too narrow.
  Goodcat/Badcat indicates that these are interesting only when open, but the hot-smelling one hurts.
  
  You hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby.
  
  > sniff the guest chair
  You smell nothing particularly interesting.
  
  You hear the sound of a cat scratching itself and know that it must be Goodcat/Badcat.
  
  > drop the sock
  Dropped.
  
  You hear the sound of a cat scratching itself and know that it must be Goodcat/Badcat.
  
  > F.
  From here you can go behind you and you can jump to His chair.
  
  You hear the sound of grooming coming from somewhere nearby.
  
  > B.
  Just behind you, the shiny and slippery floor begins and the large shiny things sit. The opposite way, you see softer but equally large things, but also a plant that sits in what looks like a square water bowl. The carpet is soft and it leads to your right, but to your left is the stringy ow that you'll have to climb to get over.
  
  The tall stringy gate bars progress to your left.
  
  > examine the carpet
  It is a light brownish color. You smell around and take several minutes to soak up the knowledge of who ate what, where they were going, and how they were feeling. The knowledge makes you feel quite important, as if you had discovered the key to understanding what happens around here.
  
  > F.
  This is a comfortable room that also has strange things in it. The carpet gets very thick and comfortable in the middle of the room and it changes colors too. A narrow cloth bed (it looks like your bed, but it is so large that it must be for Him) touches the hall and beyond it is a wide cloth bed. Far away is a mow through which you can see the outside. Beside it is a plant that grows in a tall water dish. Near the plant there is a large black shiny square and a frozen bug on top of it, and beside the narrow bed is a puffy ball held in place by some kind of stick. The smells here fuse into one onrush of aroma that makes you feel relaxed and at home.
  
  > examine the plant
  It looks like a rather large plant sitting in a bowl of dark dirt. It has a lot of green leaves and it reaches almost as high as the black square! The plant smells woodsy and growing, but not like something you'd like to eat. It is growing from a bowl of dirt that strikes you as perfect for playing in.
  
  > smell it
  The plant smells woodsy and growing, but not like something you'd like to eat. It is growing from a bowl of dirt that strikes you as perfect for playing in.
  
  > jump
  You jump a foot into the air just for fun.
  
  > enter the dirt
  Digging would be better, you think.
  
  > dig it
  It seemed like such a great idea, but after a few moments of digging in the soil, you find nothing in it and have soil all over your paws. It's such a gross feeling that you try to shake it off. Dirt goes flying all around the plant, but some of it stays on your paws. Maybe if you walked around it would just come off. You really don't want to lick it off unless you absolutely have to.
  
  kittenish.
  
  > climb the gate
  As you climb the gate up one side and down the other, that disgusting dirt shakes loose in the process. With a few licks here and there, you're as clean as ever. You're pleased as punch.
  
  You clamber over the gate again, quickly, but not silently.
  
  The hall from in front of you ends here at a soft ow about half as tall as an ordinary ow. This ow is made of crossed strings and you can see through it; beyond are shiny tall metal boxes, almost taller than Him, on a shiny floor. You instinctively sniff the ow. Goodcat/Badcat has left a scent message that welcomes you to his world if you can get over the ow. He calls it something rather impolite.
  
  The tall stringy gate bars progress behind you.