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I loved to tuck myself into the armchair behind the sash window, letting the warm sunshine play on my fur, ears pricked to the birdsong outside. I was an enthusiastic bird-watcher in those days, springing to attention to observe their fluttering wings as they came to the feeder. People assume that witches’ cats are black, but that’s a colourist stereotype. I was a tabby with jade-green eyes, ‘hiding in plain sight’, as she put it. The same applied to Herself. People saw what they expected – a mild-mannered academic, tall and lean, her dark h...
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