Fluffles awoke.

   She felt a huge, rhythmic rumble in the soft mountain she lay against. She felt small jolts in the ground. Fluffles moved a paw and felt a different downy surface. She could feel her back pressed to a round, warm bundle behind her.

   Fluffles opened her eyes.

   She felt strangely unattached to the world she was taking in; multicolored fronds of feathers waved gently; a gray kit lay sleeping behind her; light filtered in through the clear surface above them; cats with different colored pelts moved all around her, some nearer, some far; a huge, brownish she-cat looked at her and opened her mouth in surprise. The mouth started moving; the tongue flicking.

   And Fluffles felt the vibrations, and saw the moving mouth; but as the larger she-cat talked, her kit didn't hear a word.