Cat Fight

[poliphilo]

 I hear cats being horrible to one another so I go out into the night and find Marlowe engaged in a stand-off with a black cat of unknown origin. I try to distract them but they're so fixated on one another that I might as well not exist. The smart thing would have been to apply water but instead I pick Marlowe up and hurry off inside- and he's too surprised to struggle. I put him down on the kitchen floor and bar the exit- and he attacks my slippered foot, tooth and claw, with all the mindless fury the black cat has been spared....