the sound was coming from the other side of the hedge , where there was a field that should have been full of nothing but sheep waiting to go to market . i had once had occasion to wrap a cat in a towel in order to shove medicine down his throat and all i achieved was one mad cat , one shredded towel and the medicine all over me instead of inside the cat . `` you went to the one person who made you feel safe . my thoughts , on some level , are reaching it . 