
The story of a man and his cat - the founder of the CDA who "went bad" they say (within the CDA), but secretly he is working to destroy the CDA through his own plans.
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In an unnamed city, our protagonist, Felix, is introduced as he navigates his mundane life with his cat, Whiskers. As a former senior member of the CDA, he quietly observes the oppressive nature of the agency while longing for a way to reclaim his freedom.
The kettle had clicked off a long time ago, and Felix had let it. He sat at the kitchen table in the grey hour before sunrise, in a building that had been beige once and was beige still, on a street whose name he had practiced saying withoโฆ
Felix encounters a former colleague from the CDA, who drops a cryptic warning about an upcoming audit by Auditor Pell. This encounter sparks Felix's memories of his past and the real reasons for his departure from the agency.
The cafรฉ was the kind that survives by accident. Wedged between a dry cleaner and a shuttered tailor, three tables, mismatched chairs, a window so fogged with rain that the street outside looked like a memory of a street. Felix had chosen iโฆ
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