What They Really Want

Long Day. Long week, come to that. But at the end of the long day, Banshee was properly medicated, everybody was FancyFeasted, and then there was this kitten who was seriously irritating his human... As she tried to do the dishes, he climbed her, twice! (He also chomped her knees.) And when she was cleaning out the basement litter boxes, he climbed her again. What? she said. You can't be hungry!! Then she took the garbage out. And then she sat down to rest and read. And then the kitten climbed into her lap, and purred and purred and snoozed and purred some more. Oh, said the chagrined human. That was what.