. . .

“Well,” says Maria. She pushes open the door. She walks out. Her umbrella is hanging upside down from her hand so she can click it on the cobblestones with each step. “You may have found my secret, children, but you’ll never live to become immortal.”

She levels the gun at them. Jane throws Mouser at her.

“Glargh!” says the space princess assassin. She catches the cat. “Jane!”

It is bad to throw a cat at an assassin.

Oh, Jane!

It is bad.

Let us all meditate on that as Maria desperately tries to soothe the traumatized feline without dropping her terrifying space umbrella.

Let us all try to learn a lesson from that, lest we fall someday into error.

It’s good to meditate on these things.

It’ll give the kids a chance to run!

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