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Miles has never tried to take a cat for a walk before, but now he's realizing there's a reason people don't do it that often.

He's felt bad that Snowflake is mostly an inside cat. They live in an apartment, and he and Jess are barely home these days-- he's got school and Spider-Man stuff, she's got Spider-Woman stuff and Freeze-lady girlfriend stuff-- so the cat's on her own a lot of the time too.

So Miles had gotten the idea to buy a harness and try to take his cat, Snowflake for a walk.

Getting her into it had been one battle, and he's got scratches all over his arms from it. Getting her to actually walk is something else.

Standing outside of The Bramford Building, he's holding Snowflake's leash, but the cat has defiantly flattened herself against the sidewalk, refusing to move at all.

"Oh, come on, you're always meowing at the door like you wanna go out," Miles says, "Now we're out."

In response, Snowflake just looks up at Miles pathetically.

I wonder if I can get my money back for the harness if it's already got cat hair on it.

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I wasn't so sure about what I was seeing. I recognized the boy, at least. He was always so sweet to me when he saw me. He looked . . . really adorable struggling with that poor cat. I blushed at the thought and took in the situation. He really needed help.

"Um, hey," I said, stepping closer. "Not a lot of people really . . . walk cats. And you definitely should be easing her into it." I approached a little shyly. "Sorry, I don't— I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all. Miles, right?"

Noah has been doing a little better lately, but he still feels lost, kind of listless, and he's been taking a lot of long walks just to force himself to get out of Hywel every now and then. He's on one now, and just passing Barry's building, when he sees an adorable cat.

A boy is trying to walk her, but she doesn't look the least bit interested. Noah hasn't met the cat's guardian, so he approaches shyly. Smiling to himself, he crouches down and holds his hand out toward the cat, making a soft cat calling sound with his tongue.

"She's pretty," he says to the boy, smiling up at him.

Brendan's first thought, seeing a cat in a harness splayed out on the sidewalk, refusing to move, is that it's too bad he doesn't have Rosie with him. Emily has just about moved past it, no longer as insistent about the idea as she was, but Rosie is still dead-set on getting a pet that isn't a goldfish. He hasn't yet decided if it would be a good idea or not. Rosie, though, would be delighted by the sight of this, and he can easily imagine her deciding just to lie down on the sidewalk beside it.

Then again, with that being the case, it may be for the best that she's not here.

Glancing up from the cat on the sidewalk, he realizes that he recognizes the kid walking it, or attempting to walk it, and he smiles in greeting as he gets closer. "Cat not being cooperative, huh?"