This Morning's Constant Companion

Cloud met me in the bathroom, and made sure I knew the yellow plastic water bowl we keep in the bathtub was rolling around empty. Cyrrie showed up when we refilled the crunchies bowls, gobbling both crunchies and thumb. Lucy got boosted onto the dining room table again. Petunnia was snoozing in the computer room, Buddy and Banshee were at least briefly sighted, and Angel was again a no-show. But AreToo was everywhere! Kitchen, bathroom, hallway, bedroom, dining room, living room - everywhere his human was, he was, too. And when she went in and out and in and out, watering the porch plants and feeding the birds, he perched on the arm of the couch closest to the vestibule door, so that everytime she came back in, his cheerful little face was there to greet her...