"Not if you switched it up. There are plenty of songs about magic." He holds Cedric close. "Or you can use it to get the news when you make the coffee every morning."

The other cat hops up onto the couch with them. Seeing that Cedric's occupied, she rests on Howard's lap.

"You do the same thing everyone has to do when they lose something important: you deal with it. We've lost worse."