this is how you do it.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. Eleanor Roosevelt

"You lap it up this way."

 Albicara looked up from the sweet bowl of milk. his sweet bowl of milk. without saying a word, he bent his head to his milk and continued lapping it up his way.

nobody tells me what to do, would have been a tattoo on his furry caramel temples if it were the fashion .

"aquavin says its the fashion these days to tip the bowl to your jowls and let it seep elegantly onto your tongue. " Albilait continued.

they were two cats. independent and fearless. as you may have guessed, Albilait was the people pleaser and Albicara, well, you'll find out.

"Aquavin is a fish." 

" yes. fishes should know all about drinking."

Albilait followed his own advice and the next second, he had three things he didn't have before. a bowl on his head, sweet milk in his whiskers and darkness where light was.

"mmm..." Albicara said matter of factly as he licked his own jowls clean, " not about drinking milk." 

moral: care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner ~ Lao Tzu.

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