Chapter 2: The Girl With No Voice Belljno laughed so hard that he had to clutch his ribs. "Humans! Oh, they can be a comical bunch!" he mocked. I could feel my rage build up like acid from my stomach, just waiting to vomit up in one big violent blow. Yet, it never came to that. Tabby shook his head and told me just to ignore him. I must have stood there dumbfounded for a long time. "What do you mean by one hundred and six...

Prologue I breathed out heavily as I turned the key and entered my rundown apartment. Every evening seemed to start this way. Only tonight there was something different. "In you come," I coaxed, and the small black cat went through my legs into my home. The cat had no collar nor had I seen it before. I picked it up just after I had left work, he seemed hungry and was very skinny. I felt sorry for the thing, so out of the...