The Beast was coming, and today he would kill it. He heard the creature’s fearsome roar and felt the rumble of its approach. But he was not afraid.
In his youth he’d ran from it and its monstrous appetites. but he had learned to stalk it from the shadows. He finally found a weakness.
He crouched to strike from behind as the monster passed. At the last moment, he leapt from behind and grabbed for the Beast’s long tail.
I looked up from vacuuming when the machine suddenly stopped. The cat had pulled the cord out of the wall again.

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