The Manx Den

The walking cat had claws but was not climbing the tree, and he had teeth, but had no prey between them. He spent many minutes staring into the tree, and then threw his rock into the branches of the dragonfruit tree. Lim was again perplexed, and when the male walking cat picked up a new rock, she looked at him, and gave him the gift of speech. “Why do you cast stones at the tree, cat?”
The cat looked back, and said, “I like to eat the fruit of this tree, o Walking One.”
Lim again was perplexed, for she had made the walking cat to eat the many small birds and rodents of the forest. “Why do you not eat what I have made you to eat, cat?”