The Book of the Cat started Christmas 2003 when I doodled the first part, The Second Life of Choke the Rabbit, in my notepad on a ferry trip to Hokkaido. I was halfway through the second part, The Tale of a Twisted Kitten, when the notepad mysteriously disappeared, so until I get round to redrawing them neither are on this page. Instead, here's the prologue for the third and longest part (so far), Candy. Most of the characters are animals, a few, like Candy, are human.