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Orion stared at the screen.
Read it again.
"Follow the cat," he said out loud.
Luna's ears went flat. "Excuse me."
"Not you." He turned around slowly, scanning the training ground, the path leading back to the estate, the hedges along the far wall.
There.
Sitting on top of the stone wall at the far end of the training ground, watching him with an expression of profound feline indifference, was an orange cat.
Not special looking. Not glowing. No runes. No mythic energy signature coming off it that he could detect. Just an orange cat sitting on a wall looking at him like he was mildly beneath its notice.
"That cat," Luna said flatly.
"Apparently."
"Master is going to follow a random cat because the system told him to."
"The system has been right before."
"The system also told you to sleep on a rock."
"It told me to get a mat, which is different." Orion was already walking toward the wall. "Stay here."
