QUOTE : Make sure Mom gets home.” I swallowed. “She won’t want details. Just—let her make up her own mind about what happened to me. If you hung around for a while…after…that would be good too.” His tongue rasped against the tip of my nose. “She will want for nothing, and no harm will come to her so long as I live.” I wiped the backs of my hands under my eyes. “You’re not half bad for a cat.” “If I had found you as a pup,” he said on a chuckle, “I might not have drowned you either.