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the top than the bottom, that being all that held it in place.
Rhiow gazed at that spot for a moment, closed her eyes a bit further, and presently came to see the two
patches of dim sparkle that represented the material forces at work in the two adjoining surfaces of the
stuck spot. Under her breath she said the word that temporarily reduced the coefficient of friction in that
spot, then stood on her hind legs and leaned against the door.
It fell open. Rhiow trotted in, feeling the normal forces reassert themselves behind her. One jump took her
onto the bed, which sloshed up and down as she padded up the length of it, to a spot beside Iaehh's head.
He was facedown in the pillow, a position she had come to recognize over time as meaning he didn't want
to get up any time soon. Rhiow blinked, sympathetic if nothing else, and walked over his back to get to
Hhuha.
She was on her back, snoring gently. Rhiow put her head down by Hhuha's ear and purred.


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No response.
It would have been nice to do this the easy way, Rhiow thought reluctantly, but... She bumped Hhu's head
with her own, purring harder.
"Rrrrgh," said Hhuha, and rolled over, and squinted her eyes tighter shut, and after a moment looked at
Rhiow out of them with some disbelief.
She sat up groggily in the bed and looked at the door. "Now how the heck did you get in here? I know he
shut that last night."
"Yes, I know, 7 opened it, never mind," Rhiow said, "come on, will you? I have to get an early start.
Business, unfortunately." She rubbed against Hhuha's side and purred some more.
"Wow, you're noisy this morning, aren't you? What on earth do you want? Not breakfast already, you pig!
You had two whole slices of pizza just a few hours ago."
Don't remind me, Rhiow thought, for her stomach was growling so hard, she was amazed Hhuha couldn't
hear it. "Look, it would really help if you would just get up and give me my morning feed so I can get on
with thingsтАФ"
"Mike? Mike, get up. I think maybe your kitty wants her breakfast."
"Nnnggghhhh," said Iaehh, and didn't move.
"Oh, will you come on already?" Rhiow said, desperately hoping Hhuha didn't notice that her purr was
becoming a little forced. "And as for pigs, who ate half a salami last night? And never gave me any? Even
when I asked. Now please get up before it gets so late that I have to leave!"
"Gosh, you really must be hungry. I guess cats digest faster than people or something," Hhuha said, her
voice going soft, and she reached out to scratch Rhiow's eyebrows. The tone of voice was one Rhiow had
heard before: she got a sense that her ehhif liked being "talked to," even when they couldn't hear half of
what was being said, and, even if they could, would have no idea what the words meant anyway. This
tendency made them either great idiots or very fond of her indeed, and either conjecture only made Rhiow
twitchier under the present circumstances. She stomped her forefeet alternately on the coverlet, as much
from impatience as from pleasure at having her head scratched.
"Come on, then," said Hhuha. She got out of bed, threw a house-pelt around her, and headed toward the
kitchen. Rhiow went after her, not in a hurry: this was no time to trip Hhuha halfway there and have to
deal with an ehhif temper tantrum that might take half an hour to resolve. By the time Rhiow got to the
kitchen, Hhuha was cranking a can open.
"Mmm," Hhuha said, "nice tuna. You'll like this."
"I hate the tuna," Rhiow said, sitting down and curling her tail around her forefeet. "It's not made from any
part of the fish that you 'd ever eat. You should read more of the label than just the part about the
dolphins."