AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 11: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th

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     “If the Cat can really talk, then 
in my opinion, that also makes her a   
person, and that gives her the same    
rights afforded all Americans, includ- 
ing the right to due process before    
being incarcerated.                    
     “Throw in all the Good Samaritan  
laws, and because she’s in danger, not 
only do we have the right, but we also 
have the legal obligation to rescue    
her. It also gives us the right to do  
this secretly and not tell the govern- 
ment, because they’re the ones trying  
to hurt her.”                          
     “I'm sure the guys at Gitmo will  
be glad to hear that,” Beth said with a
smile, but then nodded her head        
thoughtfully, “I have to agree with    
most of your logic, and I think you’ll 
make a great lawyer too, babe, but that
still doesn’t mean we should do the    
second one, just because morality’s    
with us on this one,” she added.       
     “Of course, none of that matters  
if you’re hallucinating this whole     
fucking thing, but I don’t even want to
go there. You believe it, and that’s   
good enough for me.”                   
     I had to agree, but also wondered 
why she believed me about a talking    
Cat, but not about the garbage last    
night?                                 
     “We should at least check the     
second one out, especially for a half a
million dollars,” I said to get my mind
off garbage, and then asked, “What     
about you? What’d you learn in school  
today?”                                
     “I’m telling you Crim, I’m liking 
your idea of going back to college,    
especially after what I did today,” she
said excitedly. “It doesn’t help us    
any, not really, but it was still very 
interesting.”                          
     She had to go to the Medical      
Library to find the first two          
references. One of them was from an    
obscure German textbook, “that I       
finally found deep down in what they   
call the Cellar. I couldn't take it    
from the room, but I could read it     
there. It was published in 1829.       
     “I had to use a translator site to
read it.                               
     “It was about this magical cat    
that could talk. It didn't have any-   
thing else, just mentioned the cat,    
 that it could talk, do magic, and then
went on to something else.”            
     “Interesting, but like you said,  
not really helpful.”                   
     “You’re right, it’s not,” she said
thoughtfully, “but it still has to make
you wonder if maybe the genetics of    
cats has been modified before, except  
by nature itself, instead of humans,   
but none of those mutations survived   
long enough to reproduce.”             



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