You wake up, but ... it's not yet dawn, the room is dark. You slowly open your eyes and look up trying to understand why you are awake. The room is dark, but as your eyes focus you realize you are not alone.
Small dark forms ring your field of vision, each with two pointed ears. A car passes outside and the light reflects off of their eyes, so many cats, all looking down at you as you come to consciousness.
"rarrraowo"
Says your own cat.
You know what this means.
I once gained the ability to understand my dog (don’t ask me how)
he was like “oh! you can understand me? this is amazing! look, wanna see something so cool? follow me!” I follow him to the laundry basket in the bedroom. “see these little slots on the side here? this is a perfect hiding place for my BITS OF RAW MEAT. Isn’t this SO COOL?”
incidentally, my dog likes to “cook” his meat before eating it.
that is, he does not like human style cooking, he wants to find cool dry places to dehydrate and slightly rot the meat to give it a bit of a stronger flavor before eating it
he has very sophisticated tastes that we are just too plebian to understand
anyway the trick with dogs is they communicate with their gaze- which humans tend to miss because it happens at a much faster pace than we would expect a human gaze to be communicating. a quick dart of the eyes here and then there in under a second form subject and object. it looks kinda like lazy subconscious scanning of the room if a human were doing it
