The Silent Little Night Watchman

"Guardia sereno! A las doce han dado.”

That’s a line from Nick Joaquin’s May Day Eve.

A year after moving here, I woke up in the middle of the night to find a cat walking toward me like it owned the place.

My first thought was that it was a shape-shifter that would probably eat me. But when it saw me wake up, it quickly headed for the locked door and slipped out through the open window (which I assumed was where it had come in).

Several days later, I woke up in the middle of the night to find a fat cat (literally) crying in the kitchen. It was terrified of me and ended up crashing into my oregano plants. I had to clean up the mess right then and there.

For several nights in a row, different cats have been trying to get in through my window.

But tonight, it seems like they (or at least one of them) finally got the message. At first, I thought I was imagining a cat sitting by my window. Upon closer inspection, there really was one. I even managed to take a photo.

I don’t know if it’s a message from the cosmos (cats have always been tied to spiritual symbolism), but it’s strange how they suddenly appeared a full year after I moved here.

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