Re: First floor: 2:15 a.m.
"We gotta teach you to eat neater," she said, watching the food fall through the grating, then looking back at him. "And you're awful dirty, even after falling in that pool twice." She said this last bit with a smug little smile.
Grandmother and Mother were gnashing their teeth inside, and she sighed at them. "He can't get over here, and that means he ain't gonna eat none of us," she said with utter surety. She was smarter than the wolf, you see.