Dear Old Friends at MEOW,

This is Her Brightness, Lady Rose of Aberlone writing to you from my new home! I was adopted on Valentine’s Day under the name Tabitha – but my person thought this long fancy name was better suited because of my dignity and aloofness. She just calls me “Brightness,” though. Humans are so lazy! 

I like things here very much. It took me almost no time to warm up to my person! But there’s another cat here, my new brother. His name is Weatherford and it took us about a week and a half to become friends. “Who are you?” he would hiss. “Who do you think YOU are?!” I would growl. Then I called him a malevolent demon and he called me a raging lunatic, but we were both just lonely, really, so we got over it pretty quickly. Now my favorite thing is to chase him all over the apartment and to ambush him! Well, I’m still a kitten, after all! I also have a huge collection of toys! I like to keep them under the sofa and coffee table, out of reach of my human. I can’t really reach either, then, but at least I know no one else is playing with them! My human forgets how many toys she already bought me, and often comes home with another jingly ball or tuft of feathers. Soon I’ll run out of hiding places. 

My human wants you to know that I have been very well behaved! We haven’t had any accidents at all, and I’m growing so much. She’s pretty understanding about kitten things. When she discovered that I will shred any cardboard I find, she just laughed and said, “At least you aren’t chewing on the wires and books.” I hope you are all well!

Sincerely,
Brightness, a.k.a. Lady Rose, nee Tabitha