Rat-Catcher - Lightspeed Magazine
I knew she was there. Lenet believed she was stealthy, and would perhaps have been correct, had I not been the cat of the Dukeβs Theatre for four long years. All the sounds that grand old building could make were known to me . . . including the sound of a barefoot Cait Sidhe girl stalking the rafters like the ghost of Hamletβs father. The footsteps stopped above my head. βRand,β Lenet hissed, voice pitched low to keep it from carrying to the audience below.