Lync crawls up the couch from the far end and then stops, laying his head down to watch me at his safe distance and settles back again. It’s taken him a few hours to get this close, and he has less of a wild nature than Feral did. He seems cautious, more than rabid. I turn back to watch Matthew McConaughey chasing down some blonde on a motorbike, satisfied he will stay put for a while longer and relax, not intimidated by him all that much.

I took a second bath after Alexi left and ...