 follow me; everything is all right.
Only those close enough to the cat would have been able to observe its eyes scan the length of the hall and glance to the side whenever a professor arrived to the dais. For the most part, it appeared to be rather amused with everything that was happening in the hall – especially when the astronomer dropped a box in front of it and made a mad dash for one of the tables. Besides its wandering eyes and the occasional ear twitch, the cat (even when the groundskeeper rubbed the top of its head with his finger) remained quite still.
It was waiting for something. But what? |