To the cats whose lives have enlivened my own reading for so many
years. To Midnight Louie, and Carole Nelson Douglas. To Koko and
Yum Yum, and Lilian Jackson Braun. To Solomon, Sheba, Sealy,
ShebaLu, and Saska, and Doreen Tovey; and to the many cats, real and
fictional, of Andre Norton (Chang-Un in particular).
May they find Prauo a worthy successor.
—L.M.