#bergen_county

Odin jumps down from a couch to the floor, an easy jump... no missing the floor. Yet the feline winces as the jolt to his joints, not where anyone can see. Feline pride is what it is and he has that in plenty.

And he runs into CJ. The four year old is big for his age, all that troll blood. The boy looks at the cat, the cat looks at the boy. CJ is good as young ones go. He's been taught to be gentle with animals.

"Hi Odin. Wanna play?" CJ has hand crafted lincoln logs and blocks to play with , and assembles them like blocks or even legos, though well, he iS only four. He stacks them for Odin to see , a tower is forming.

Odin does not wish to play. He doesn't feel great. The world is wholesomely unfair and he doesn't care for the autumn chill, why don't folks get a fire going in this house already? And who put the food up so high? Surely it was closer to the ground before. And...

stack stack stack

CJ keeps stacking up his tower

Odin's tail twitches

The tower is getting pretty high, but so far it is small, beneath Odin. No, no interest.

"Come on, you know you wannna" The boy chimes, mimicing his sister when she offers him a delicious bit of fruit when he claims he wants ONLY ice cream. It works on the kid.

Cats aren't as easily tricked as two leggers.

"Up goes the tower ooooo" CJ says. There's a story in the boy's mind, and he'd like Odin to be a part of it.

Odin really has no time for... wait, did that last block just make this 'tower' taller than Odin?

It did, it totally did. A half inch higher than Odin, even if you count ears!

Intolerable!

The old cat walks up to the tower...his eyeball more fixed on it. Speculative.

"Oh no, the dragon" CJ says "Mom the dragon is 'tack the tower"

From the kitchen "That's nice, CJ. Let me know how it goes" Tove calls out

"Oh no, mst'r dragon, it's an innocent village" CJ says. Well, while he's better spoken that most four year olds it probably comes out more like "Ohnomsterdrag, innozentvil' but Odin understands.

Odin understands much.

Odin circles once more about the project, not unlike a dragon coming in for a devastating assault on a hapless locale. Full of innocents eh?

Foolish two legger.. cats know NO One is innocent. That's dog think!

SWAT goes the paw, and the tower , arrogant construct that dared to be as tall as a cat, is broken. Blocks and logs scramble about the floor...and Odin feels driven to at least hunt one down to a corner swating it like an old hockey pro with a puck. It goes under a couch, only to return when Tove is TRYING to vacuum or Jaymes some how steps on it despite the odds!

"Dragon attack" The boy gasps, and is ready to bring hsi action figure to be a 'knight' to Odin... but just as his Thor Action figure is about to take on Odin, the cat is tuckered out.

CJ offers thor to battlee twice, then puts it down, and instead pets the cat gently, like his big sis taught him. "Good dragon"

Silly boy, Odin thinks as he curls up on the four year old's lap, which is too small but he'll take it. Cats aren't 'good' dragons. They are the BEST dragons.

A rusty purr escapes Odin. Dagmar taught CJ well indeed.

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