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“I have already informed you of it. Savida was lying in a circle and screaming.”
“Not that one. The one you just woke up from.”
Daithi paused, thinking, and then waved his hand in dismissal. “It wasn’t anything about Savida. There was a female calling for a taxi, another with bags. They discussed the arrangements for a person in the home while they were away. I believe it was a clue about Margaret.”
Clawdia meowed and jumped onto the side table.
“About Margaret? How do you know?” Charlie asked. Clawdia nibbled on his finger, which rested on the table. Then meowed again when he pulled them away.
“I assume she is the person they are making care arrangements for.”
Although my friend was missing, I couldn’t stop myself from still wanting to meet her, no matter how old or incapable she was. “Did you hear where the house was?”
He looked at me incredulously. “You would leave to retrieve your soul pair while I am missing my mate?”
“No. It is important information to have. As soon as we have found Savida, I will go to her.” It was partly true.
Daithi glared. “Then I will hold the information until then.”
“Hold on,” Charlie said. “There’s no need to be like that. Tell me the address. If it’s too far, we’ll go when Savida is safe, but if it’s around the corner, then it would be stupid to wait while we have no leads on Savida and don’t know where to begin. You’ve assumed your vision is about Margaret, but it could have been about Savida. It’s worth checking out.”
Daithi contemplated that. “All right. The address was 37 Listerly Lane.”
Charlie’s mouth dropped open.
Clawdia meowed.
“Well, how far is it? You know this place?” I asked.
Clawdia meowed.
Charlie swallowed and looked at Clawdia. “This house is 36 Listerly Lane.”
“She is next door?”
Clawdia meowed.
Charlie broke. “Clawdia, for fuck’s sake will you stop meowing. Can’t you see we’re having a crisis here?” he roared.
She hissed at him and pushed the lamp off the table. Charlie cursed as it smashed, and she dashed toward the office.
“What is she doing now? Clawdia, I swear to God, I don’t have the fucking time or energy for your shit right now, so fuck off home.” Charlie stormed after her.
“Charlie, don’t curse at her,” I chastised. “Perhaps she was trying to tell us something.” She’d certainly been trying to get our attention since we walked in.
“She’s a pissing cat. She doesn’t think like that,” he growled as he swung the office door wide to show the back of Clawdia’s fluffy form sat on the desk.
As she turned her head to look at us, she held some kind of small, colorful stick in her mouth. A stick that had been sticking out of Charlie’s computer. She dropped off the desk and when Charlie gasped, realizing what she had stolen, she ran out of the office and toward the kitchen.
We chased after her, only to see her lithe body slip between the ajar window and dash into the garden.
Charlie shouted, “You thieving little rat! Come back here right now, Clawdia. Drop it. Drop it.” He opened the back door and stormed to the fence where Clawdia perched, waiting for him to catch up.
“I don’t know why you are so irate, Charlie. We need to go to her home to find out why Daithi saw it and she is only trying to hurry us along. She is quite the clever little cat.”
“Because she’s being a bitch about it by taking my memory stick.” He glared at her, and she seemed to glare back. Or maybe the setting sun was affecting her eyes. Charlie continued, “She isn’t as smart as you think, Zaide. I mean, she’s smart for a cat, but she’s not human smart.”
She growled. Then jumped to the other side of the fence. Despite everything, I laughed. I enjoyed that such a small creature gave Charlie so much grief.
