Matilda fell asleep in bed. While Cali was at his most energetic self. The moment he left the room, he saw it. The red dot. He started chasing it, as if someone else had taken over his body. He didn’t understand what was happening. Wherever that red dot was, Cali was there. With all the agility of an agent, he would catch the red dot, put his paw on it, but it would somehow escape.

Occasionally, when he looked up, he saw Pat. She had a stick in her hand, like a little pencil, and she was moving it around. Pat seemed to be having a great time. Cali seemed to have figured out that Pat was connected to the red dot, but that didn’t stop him from chasing after it. When he finally collapsed, gasping for breath, the red dot disappeared. Pat came to him.

‘Oh dear, are you tired‘ she said with a loving voice as she picked him up and took her to his room. That night, as Cali slept at Pat’s bed, he promised to himself that she would solve the mystery of the red dot.

‘Oh, that red dot. It’s terrible.’ Sambla said.

‘I’ll give you a tip that will work wonders’.

‘The thing people are most afraid of is ghosts.’ ‘But there are no such things as ghosts‘ said Cali.

‘Yes‘ said Sambla, ‘but people still can’t help being afraid from them. And we fooled them that cats can see ghosts.’

‘How…?‘ he asked in astonishment.

‘It’s very simple, Cali. Just look at one spot in the wall patiently. There shouldn’t be any moving objects or anything in the wall. It should be plain. And you should  keep a very serious face. They’ll think you’ve seen a ghost and they’ll be scared to death.’

‘Do they really believe that?’

Sambla laughed out loud. “Oh yes!”

“Well, let’s go, we’ve got a lot of work to do‘ Sambla said.

“Where are we going?”

His face filled with sorrow. “We’ll visit someone I know”.

The house they were going to was beautiful. It was a modest house in a garden. The door was open when they arrived. They went inside. There were coloured balls all over the house. Games a cat couldn’t say no to. On the right there was a toy-mouse, a cat tunnel and running tracks all around the house near the ceiling.

From the photos above the fireplace, it was clear that there were 5 members of the family living here. And in every photo there was the same cat. The cat in the photos looked very much like Sambla. The only difference was that he had more yellow hair on the right side of his face.

‘That cat…‘ Cali said, quite surprised

‘It looks like me, doesn’t it?’ Sambla finished the sentence.

‘Yes, very much!”

“He is my brother Dambla‘

Cali was surprised ‘I didn’t know you had a brother.”

‘You weren’t born yet. That’s why you don’t know the story. My brother became an ex-comunikado‘

“HEEEY BROTHER !” Dambla ran towards , Smabla knocking him down and hugging him with all his might.

After playing with Sambla for a while, Sambla introduced him to Cali. He smoothed his feathers out of courtesy and shook Cali’s hand.

‘Guess what’s in the house tonight. I saved some for you‘ Dambla saidmischievously, looking at Sambla.

‘Liver really liver?

‘Yes’ answered Dambla.

After the 3 cats had enjoyed the liver, they sat opposite each other on the expensive soft sofas in the living room.

Dambla looked at Sambla.

“I think I know why you came. You want to ask about Artemis, don’t you?”

Sambla became serious. ‘Yes. What do you know? We have learned that the Exkomunikados have joined the rebels. Did Artemis organise that? Who is Artemis?‘ He looked at Dambla. He was wondering if he had joined them.

Dambla sighed.

‘The subject is very complicated‘ he said.

‘You know it is my job to sort out complicated matters‘ Sambla said.

‘Even if it gets me into trouble?’

“You know I would never want anything to happen to you, Dambla. But I have no one else to turn to but you.”

Dambla looked at Sambla and then at Cali. ‘Can I trust him?’

‘Yes‘ Sambla said.

‘Then prepare for a long night.’