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\chapter{12}
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Even if it wasn't by much,
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the part of the city that Katt and her tribe lived in was different than the part where he had met the cat girl and ran for his life.
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There was one important difference:
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The night sky that spread out above the crumbling roofs of the ill-treated city wasn't a light-swallowing darkness,
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but a completely normal sky with a small sickle moon and countless twinkling stars.
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And they had only left the house for a couple of minutes when it got bright.
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The sky in the east started to turn grey and started to brighten almost unnaturally quickly,
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but Andrew kept his thoughts in check even though they wanted to go on absurd wanderings.
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They were high in the mountains,
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which was known for how quickly it got bright,
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but also dark in the evening.
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Even if he didn't have a shred of proof for it,
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by now he was completely sure that he was on a different planet in the future or in another dimension.
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And he was also (pretty) sure that he wasn't having a nightmare or was hallucinating the whole thing.
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He was in the time he belonged in,
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and he was actually experiencing all of it.
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He just did not have a single idea as to why.
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Katt had accompanied him out of the house obediently,
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but had stood still,
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keeping just as silent as before and Andrew had left it at that for a while.
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What he was seeing was enough to keep his thoughts busy for a while.
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Bull, Liz and Rex weren't the only uncanny mixtures between human and animal that he saw that morning,
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and not even the most bizarre.
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Andrew chose not to focus too much on a lot of the figures to keep them from following him into his nightmares,
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but he did see that not \textit{all} of the members of the tribe were as mutated as Bull or Ratt.
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A lot of the figures that sat,
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ate breakfast,
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or were just taking in the sunrise at the extinguished fire looked completely normal.
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If they even had any mutations they were either hidden under their clothes or were so little that they weren't noticeable.
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After they had silently strolled across the Plaza for a while the silence got so uncomfortable that he couldn't stand it any more.
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He stood still,
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turned around to her and tried to catch her eyes,
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but he didn't manage it.
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Just to say anything
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(and to not talk about Bull and the rest;
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he wasn't motivated to do that)
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he asked: ``How is Bat doing?''
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Katt threw a quick glance in the direction that they had come from before she answered.
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Fires burnt in most but not all of the buildings that surrounded the Plaza.
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One of them was lit up enough that it was bright as day inside, with fires even going on the roof of the three-storied building.
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``She's getting better.'', she said.
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``She's having a baby.
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But it doesn't look good.''
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``I'm sorry'', answered Andrew.
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``Hopefully it isn't anything too bad?''
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