Chapter 165

::You’re going to Sarran where you will never be caged, never be hungry, and always be welcome with a warm place to sleep anywhere you go,::Juraens answered. ::If you like, you can choose a Triad to stay with. The Sarrans adore felines and there are no dogs on Sarran. All the cats we are taking have mind speech and therefore are sentient. They will be treated as such.::

::Sentient means self-aware?::

::Yes.::

Mark heard a rumble of voices in his brain. A tough old Tom spoke, ::We see in your mind that you are telling the truth. We’ll go.::

::What is your name?:: Juraens scratched behind his ears

::I don’t have one. In there they called me Tom.::

::Would you like to be Tom?:: Mark laughed.

::No, I heard a name once that I liked, Aloysius::