A Pet 9

The daughter went in to the Houghton Library. Encased in glass was the first Witch Book from roughly the 11th century A.C.E. The woman portrayed on the first page looked just like her mother... her lush, curly black hair streaming down her back like a black waterfall, nighted with all its inky shades.

May i look at this book?

It's a book on loan.

I'd like to see the pages of the book.

That's in a different part of the library. there's only the first page there. The rest of the book is empty. You may as well find a bottle of liquor there.

The daughter wore special gloves to flip through the book and she was extremely careful. There it was, the CATOG:

An extremely unusual animal who is part cat, part dog, and part human. As a human, she or he is extremely loyal, subservient, intelligent, religious, and kind. As a catog, she or he is extremely selfish, arrogant, possessing of a sense of deep superiority over others. She or he only loves for short periods and only loves beautiful young men or women through whom she or he replenishes his life force. Extremely dangerous. Must be sacrificed to the White Goddess on the Harvest Moon.

MUST BE SACRIFICED...

the daughter knew that there was something too good about her situation. MUST BE SACRIFICED. She must tie the human catog up like Issac and sacrifice him to the White Goddess. The daughter prayed to El to lead her. She was not quite sure what to do. She had been quite religious when young, but now she was a secular humanist. BUT THEN WHY MUST SHE SACRIFICE? Hadn't secular humanists gotten rid of the need for sacrifice? Instead of stoning people, secular humanists had created the stare... the long stare that stones or freezes a person, at least some people. WHY SACRIFICE when we could relentlessly criticize? But the CATOG needed to be SACRIFICED. She knew it to be true.