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stolen. I saw the guy that took her, but if he lets her out someone might see her and bring her back,” I explained.
    That felt good to get that first poster up until he mentioned the coyote in the area and that made me feel worse. I didn’t want to hear about the possibility of Sia being taken by a coyote.
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    When I stepped out of the wine shop, my mind ruminated on many things: where to hang more posters of Sia, wild animals in the neighborhood, my impending date for tonight and all the prep that entailed.  Once again my preoccupation made me miss recognizing the street stalker in his signature black hoodie standing against a wall, a paper bag at his feet. Maybe I’d have noticed him if Sia's absence hadn’t weighed on me, and if my cell hadn’t started to ring at that moment. I answered hoping someone had found my kitten.
    It was my eternally cheerful best friend, Glendie.
    “Hey, Glendie!”  I said, sounding more up than I felt. She wanted to know all the details of last night’s date.  “No, he wasn’t a hot dude! More like a young dud, no not stud, dud. The young ones are still learning.” I paused a moment and absent mindedly dropped some change into the street guy’s paper bag. “Here you go.”  Not thinking for a minute that he was anything other than a beggar.   The guy grabbed his paper bag with my change in the bottom, and I didn’t know it at the time because I was too busy chatting, but he started to follow me.
    “I hope tonight's date is better,” I said to my friend, whom I loved, and then I laughed because Glendie said something inappropriate. I tried to tell her about Sia, but all she seemed interested in discussing were my plans for the evening. “Hey, who you calling promiscuous?” Then I said, “I can’t meet you tonight. We’ll do beers another night.  I promise. I will leave one night open for us. I need to tell you about Sia, but I gotta go, Glendie. Talk soon.” 
    Talking with Glendie always made me feel better.
    The sun shone and the gorgeous day in the village went on and on. Flowers quivered, purple, white, pink, red fluttering flowery heads decorating both sides of the street. They looked freshly watered and glittered in the sunlight. People shopped and ate at sidewalk cafes.
    If Sia weren’t missing life would be grand.
    I turned down a quiet, empty lane heading towards the triple X adult shop, located off the main street inside an older, more dilapidated building. An old box-shaped store built in the early settler era of Meadowvale.  This lane had one or two other shoppers strolling along, but not nearly as many as the main drag. And even as I left most shoppers behind, I knew I was not alone. I got that spine jangly feeling of someone watching me. I slowed a bit and looked behind me, but saw no one.  I glanced to the shop window across from me and checked out the reflection, but saw nothing unusual.
     I walked toward the triple X shop and paused to stare into the window. My reflection stared back, but this time something else in that reflection stared back – the cat thief.
     
     

Chapter 6
Pentacles Behind Her
    The triple X shop was a family owned business as ironic as that sounds and was located appropriately enough on a street called Lover's Lane. I didn’t really know the owners. They hire people to work in the store. At the moment, I stood dumbfounded outside the shop for several minutes. When I saw the reflection of the guy that stole Sia, I quickly turned to confront him, but he wasn’t there. I turned back to the window glass and there he was!
    What the eff was going on?
    Our reflections in the triple X window slowly began to morph. We became entangled, two people having sex. At first I thought the triple X projected some kind of creepy video of a couple onto the glass, and I only imagined they looked similar to us. I was by horrified, but it was so erotic that as much as I wanted to turn away, I continued to watch. I had to take a deep breath