Working on the puzzle with a cat in her lap will make this far more difficult than if she could crawl around, but it is rather hard to deny Bells the space when she is acting so affectionate. Hand brushing lightly over the cat’s back as she pushes the folds of the blanket into an acceptable arrangement, Nel watches as Feste opens the box before lowering to the floor with her. “Maybe. I suppose you could put a bell on Bells, but that’d take away all her fun, wouldn’t it?” The last said to the cat with humor and a good scratch at the base of her tail.

“Thanks for opening it,” Nel says as she looks at the first scoop of pieces. Step one is to find edge and corner pieces, so she gingerly pushes the pieces around to separate them and pinch out those key ones. As she does this, she idly pets Bells with her other hand to oblige what she thinks the cat wants.