Den of Spies, Part 3 of 3

Everything went black.
I awoke to Dr. Kissinger's manaical fingernails. Fangs curling from his upper lip. There was blood on the walls.
"Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi," I hissed, "dona nobis pacem."

I said, "Huic ergo parce, Deus!" Just then, a white form appeared in the distance, barely a speck in the multitudinous sea of chrome before me. But it grew larger. I repeated, "Huic ergo parce, Deus!"
"Dies irae," I said, "dies illa, solvet saeclum in favilla!"
The white form grew larger until it resembled a dust storm. Fine motes of sand stung my face, prickled my gorgeous whiskers. The dust storm swooped over my head.
A yellow light beckoned.

Dogs are the opposite of Christ's miracle, wine transformed into moldy straw and nettles.
I shrunk from the yellow light. Waited for the white light to return. I thought I saw a lilac bush, but nothing happened when I ate it.
Then I awoke. After a moment, I realized I still was in my cat carrier in the Den of Spies. A growl began in the bottom of my belly, passed up through my ribs. I expelled it through my furious red mouth.

Then over the precipice! I felt myself, in the cage, falling. A blissful end, the sweet void! Tony caught the cage before we hit the ground. But I'll do it again. If you take me back to the Den of Spies. I will hiss at you, my betrayers, for the entire ride home.
I scared a stupid, hopeless Labrador in the waiting room. I can still see his jaw trembling.

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What next, Shimmy?
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