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Old October 3rd 18, 11:40 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
cshenk
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Default A young kitty takes off in a heliocatter

Dan Mahoney wrote:

On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 6:51:41 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
He's not got his license to fly passengers, but he can fly supplies.

He's got stuff to drop on Sulawesi. He checks his gas carefully and
has a round trip with a little to spare.

From the other side of the island, where the resorts are, folks
start arriving and dropping things off. They are for 2foots and
4foots. They calculated the most 'bang for the lb' so its light
weight stuff. Tubes of antiseptic ointment, gauze bandages, bleach
to purify water and droppers to measure it with printed directions
on how much to use. Dry cat and dog food and dehydrated meat,
vegetables and fruits in watertight bags.

He recalculates his gas and distance and tucks in sutures
(shuddering at what they used to be made of) and surgical sterile
gloves.

He looks at the pile and adds some blow up mattresses which weigh
almost nothing. He coveres them with tarps from the resort kittahs.

With a deep breath, he waves and takes off. He has the only
catacopter on the island and no 2 foots have one. He's young,
brave, and scared.


[Francesca tracks down the Princess and they huddle. The Princess
calls in several of her advisors, and several catellite phone calls
are made. Several laptops are consulted. After half an hour or so the
huddle disbands and Francesca runs to Sammy.]

Sammy, Sammy! Dat catacopter dat just taked off - it duzn't haf a
teleporter built in, so it has to fly like normal. And da weather
report says dat the wind just shifted - when dat offur kitty taked
off him had a tail wind. Now him has a head wind! We's might need to
send a rescue catacopter after him.


The young kittah notes the wind shift. He grabs his notebook from
class and reminds himself of the thin shifts that can happen in his
area and tests going higher. He catches a tailwind. It's a little off
his course but not bad. He has enough fuel to make it but he may have
to refuel to get back home.

He takes a deep breath and captures his tail and licks it like his
meowmie used to. It calms him. He remembers she used to say 'you can
do anything little White Foot, you just need experience and others will
help, even from unexpected sources'.

White Foot flies on.