Prologue
Turtle gazed over the sea from the edge of the large yacht she was travelling on, along with a couple of twolegs. The twolegs hadn't thought to bring any other cats, so most of the days on the boat involved her lying in the sun and sleeping. Occasionally she tried to catch some of the mice that scampered across the boat, but that made her feel seasick with all the waves that gently pushed the boat up and down. She snapped out of her daze, and the beautiful tortoiseshell cat stretched, then padded over to her bowl of food. The pellets were dry and tasteless, but seeing as she couldn't catch any of the small critters on board, she reluctantly ate it, and then jumped up onto the side of the boat.
Just as Turtle was dozing off again, she noticed a large plank of wood drifting away. Curious, she leaned over the edge a bit, just as the boat hit a large wave. Before she could react, Turtle was flung over the edge into the freezing water below, Quickly she swam over to the piece of drift wood and meowed as loud as she could for her twolegs, but the yacht was already rapidly disappearing, and soon it became clear that they were gone forever.
