Working Cat Spells!

Three come together, three loyal friends, three voices chanting,  powerful swells. 

The universe hears and nods in agreement and so magic begins, working cat spells!

How On Earth Do I Tell George He Needs To Return To The Lane Of Bells?

It's a very frosty day here in Catworld this morning and as I sit here watching the darker Naughty Twin lick dew off the grass I've been reflecting on yesterday's visit to The Wiseman.

I waited until early afternoon, it was a bit rainy first thing and even though this sort of thing doesn't affect me any more I had such serious questions to ask that were gloomy enough as they were I thought I'd wait until at least the clouds had parted and there was a bit of brightness shining down to pepper anything that I was about to hear.

Almost as soon as I got there The Wiseman started to speak to me. It's so much easier these days, an instant connection and I wondered if George with his enhanced third eye would experience the same.

Hello Lil'

Hello, I said, I really need your help.

I'm always here to help, he replied

Oh Wiseman there's so much going on and I'm very, very confused as to what to do for the best.

That can often be the case, came his reply.

Since I've come back George has been the only one that I've managed to communicate properly with and now something has happened, a cat spell has been put on him and he can't talk properly. He says one thing and something else comes out of his mouth.

Then I see The new Cat Crew are sneaking around everywhere and I think they may have something to do with all this. the Easter Island Head's started talking again and before George lost his ability to talk he told me that Catkind was in danger.

There truly is a lot going on at the moment Lil', he paused

Most events in life Lil' are connected but not all are, even if they seem so. What conclusions have you come to? Have you been listening to yourself?

I've been trying to but it's so hard, as soon as a fear or a want comes in my catty powers seem to get all mixed up like spaghetti.

There's more more thing.

I'm always here to hear you Lil.

George drew something in the ground. This cat spell has got something to do with The Lane of Bells!

I was so scared even mentioning The Lane of Bells.

The Wiseman stood there,not saying anything. I thought he might want me to continue speaking but there was nothing else to say at that point.

Finally he spoke.

Do you fear The Lane of Bells Lil'?

After all that a question! I thought for a moment.

I did but since coming back so many things are different.

Like the loss of fear you have about crossing the road?

Yes, exactly like that.

Then I think you have everything that you need Lil' to deal with all of the things that are happening.

I wanted a straight forward answer, a solution but deep in my heart I knew he wouldn't do that. He help us to help ourselves, it's all a part of our journey.

Are you saying we should face The Lane of Bells? I asked him

Do you feel you should?

Well Daddy always says you shouldn't run away from your fears, face them and you will come out the other side stringer and wiser.

I don't know, but this happening to George is tied in with that and to solve a problem you should go back to the source.

I think you are a very wise cat Lil', and just for a second it looked to me like a smile had spread across The Wiseman's face.

Now as I sit here watching one of the Sparrow Sisters trying to tug a worm from the soft ground I'm wondering how on earth do I tell George he needs to return to The Lane of Bells? At least this time he won't be on his own. Oh no, this time I'm going with him.

There Was Only One Thing For It

Catkind, Cat Spells, Troy Lamore, The First, Fate, coming back from the other side and now LUM and the Lane of Bells, my head was spinning. Things were beginning to crash in all around me and I felt dizzy.

George went very silent after that revelation. I said I think we should still keep this all very quiet we didn't want to scare everyone in Catworld by letting them know until we had something a little more concrete to tell them.

How we would tell them I didn't know, no one apart from George can hear me and George can only speak gobbledygook.

There was only one thing for it. A trip to The Wiseman!

It's So Hard When You Can't Communicate

At last George has turned up and is looking very sorry for himself.

I don't blame him, it's so hard when you can't communicate properly with those around you no matter how much you try they either just don't hear you or understand what you are trying to tell them. I should know I've had the same problem for a while now.

Everything that's happened this year has brought us two closer than ever before and I've gained a new respect for George. I really feel I can trust him, not quite the case when we were seeing each other but hey things are very different now and there's no frisky Sarah to contend with.

I went up and sat by him, he felt my presence and opened his mouth but nothing came out, I think he just gave up even trying knowing nothing of much sense would come out.

I didn't know where to begin but as Daddy says the beginning is the best place so I told him that I didn't manage to find anything on cat spells in Daddies office. He gave a sigh out like he was expecting that answer and he had given up hope.

I reassured him that I wasn't giving up and that he should get so down with it all and tried a small smile but I know he couldn't see me, he wasn't even really looking in my direction.

Well at least I know now that sometimes George can see me and at other times he can't, another thing to add to my list of things I've learnt about my new state of being.

These lists keep on growing and seem to be everywhere around me at the moment.

I then explained to him what I had seen this morning with Doublay and Tiger going over to Mogsie's and asked him did he think this was linked in with what happened to him.

He nodded and turned and looked me right in the eye, he could see me again.

He then raised him paw and drew something in the grass but I couldn't make out what it was.

It was kind of round and I thought really hard as to what it could be. It all looped around.

Is it a circle? I asked

He shook his head and drew again another little bit on the top.

What was he trying to say? I was perplexed and thought really hard.

Is it a ship?

He shook his head again and began to rock his head from side to side.

No still wasn't getting it. 

He drew a little line with a circle on the end at the bottom.

Oh I don't know.

Is it a bell? I guessed more a random guess than anything else.

He nodded.

A bell? I said quizzically.

What do you mean a bell, what's a bell mean?

*Gasp* 

A BELL!

It suddenly hit me and I went cold and looked him straight in his eyes.

Has this got something to do with The Lane of Bells?

He nodded and put his head down.

OMG THE LANE OF BELLS! 

Grave Times For Catworld

Never have I been more frustrated at not being able to speak to anyone.

Stay Daddy got up early and came downstairs with River and I came down with them. I wanted to see George to see how he is and also to let him know I didn't manage to find any answers in Daddy's office books yesterday. Even though he has loads of books on things like that there wasn't a single mention of cat spells but I guess that's hardly surprising it's very ancient worlde that goes back to the time of The First and not a lot is recorded from that time, our folklore is generally handed down by word of mouth only!

Anyway there I was sitting up in the window looking out for George and enjoying the early morning sun when all of a sudden I saw what I thought was Sarah running across the road, being chased by Doublay. 

I thought maybe Doublay was in a bit of a frisky mood, it is Spring after all but something about their movements made me pay closer attention, then I realised it wasn't Sarah it was Tiger!

As they approached R's car they both quickly looked around before dashing under and around the back.

WHAT!

This was audacious in the least and I desperately scanned Catworld to see if anyone was around. I thought of running over there myself to at least see what was going on but to be honest I really didn't know what to do it was all happening so fast.

Then Doublay came running back across the road, I half expected Mogsie to be chasing him the speed he was going but he was on his own. About 30 seconds later Tiger came running out, checking no one had spotted them a smile spread across his face and he dashed off down the road.

Oh George where are you, you're the only one I can tell but what you can do I've no idea what with all the gobbledygook coming out of your mouth at the moment? These are grave times for Catworld!

I Didn't Mistake What I Was Seeing In His Face. Fear! Cat Spells!

George has finally turned up and he is not in the best of places.

I was still sitting waiting for him, that's one thing about coming back from the other side, time means nothing and as much as I would have preferred him to appear earlier than he did I didn't feel the time drag like it used to.

Anyway there I was and something told me to jump up on the table amongst the bric-a-brac, catty powers heightened so I followed them and oh how glad I was because there George was sitting right in the middle of the garden, how he'd not been discovered by River I don't know but he hadn't so I quickly ran out there to him.

Before I could even start to ask him all my questions about him meeting Troy and River and him and me all being interlinked and *whispers* Catkind being mentioned he started to blurt words out but they were all of a jumble and I couldn't understand him.

I told him to slow down and catch his breath, he did seem worked up and almost angry and just wasn't making sense.

He started again and out of his mouth gobbledygook again. I'd never come across this before, he looked at me his weepy eye blinking, I didn't mistake what I was seeing in his face. Fear!

Oh this was terrible, no matter how hard he tried he just wasn't making any sense. If he couldn't talk clearly at least he could nod or something and at least he was able to understand me.

Right, I needed to think.

What's happened? 

Blurb, blurb, blurb.

Right that was a stupid question I needed to think of questions that he could answer with a nod or shake or in some way indicating.

Are you OK?

He shook his head.

Are you physically OK, are you hurt anywhere?

He shook his head. Right well that was something positive.

Who did this to you? No wait did someone do this to you?

He nodded.

Is it someone we know?

He both shook and nodded his head.

Did more than one person do this to you?

He nodded his head again.

Was it a another cat?

His eyes grew wide with fear. 

A CAT DID THIS? I could hardly believe it.

He nodded slowly. But how can a cat do this I thought to myself, I'd never seen anything like this before in my life.

Was there more than one cat?

He nodded. I was thinking on my feet here.

Why?

Doh he couldn't answer that but before I could say anything else he put a paw to his mouth as if to say shhhh.

Was this done to you to silence you?

He nodded and looked in my direction. Think Lil' THINK!

Was this all something to do with you and Mogsie having a conversation this morning?

He nodded, I think my eyes doubled in size. I knew something wasn't right about all the events today. 

You said it was both someone we knew and someone we didn't know, is that right?

He nodded.

Is it anyone from our Catworld?

He shook his head. Phew that was a relief, I trusted everyone around here no matter our ups and downs and to even think this madness could be to do with any one of us would just be too much to bear.

George, I don't know what we should do it's like a spell's been put on you, I said almost like I was just thinking out loud and then BANG. It hit me!

Has someone put a spell on you?

He nodded, took a breath out and smiled, relief I was guessing.

A spell! This is all new territory for me, me coming back from the other side, George, River, Troy, *whispers* Catkind and now spells. Nah I must be dreaming all this.

Does anyone else know what's happened to you?

He shook his head and pointed down.

You came straight here?

A nod.

Nine came out of his mouth but I'm guessing it was help he was trying to say.

Daddy has some books on this sort of thing upstairs I'll go up and have a read and see if I can find out anything but they are human books and I don't think they will cover this sort of stuff. I mean this is cat spells and cat spells are forebade, it has been for ever, ever since what happened to the First. 

BANG again, The First! Troy told me he was The First, George had just revealed to me that he'd also been visited by Troy, things were beginning to join up a little.

I hated what was about to come out of my mouth

Was this Troy? 

He shook his head. Phew I think I would have had my heart split in two if he had been a part of this.

LUM rang out throughout the garden

We both turned our heads to look in the direction of where the noise came from. The Easter Island Head was talking again. It hadn't for ages and I'd never really got to the bottom of all that but sometimes things happen and you mean to go back to find out the mystery and you get sidetracked.

I looked at George and George looked at me but this was different than before, it wasn't just like he could sense me, it was like he could see me.

George, I hesitated, can you see me?

He nodded. My head was in a spin now, this year has been like one long trippy dream and now all this, I felt like my head could explode.

Right pull yourself together Lil'

George, keep a low profile, you're good at that when you want to. 

He knew what I meant and smiled a little.

I will see what I can find out from the books in Daddies office but there's a lot so let's agree to meet up here tomorrow, come over as soon as you can make it and don't speak to anyone.

He looked at me like I was taking the mick but he knew what I meant.

It will be OK, I promise. 

I then lent in and kissed him on his cheek but I couldn't feel him and he couldn't feel me, for just a second I felt normal again.