Kittens everywhere!

Sometimes the occasional feline would stray from Ali Island and get lost in the maze. Hattori usually didn't think much of them since they were usually smart enough to find their way back, no assistance or encouragement required. But with the arrival of spring came many many litters of kittens and for one reason or another they had started to wander. A handful wouldn't have been noticeable, but at this point it was a full on invasion, the mewling and cries of lost kittens calling out for their mothers. Stumbling down corridors with clumsy steps or charging after their siblings as they played, they were starting to get underpaw. In the way. Getting into caches and making a menace of themselves, to the extent Hattori's sense of tolerance was waning. All things considered, he'd been pretty patient, he hadn't considered culling them or anything quite so drastic as they did serve as decent pest control but this was getting out of hand. And with Auster's spring only starting to get under way he knew even more litters would be born soon.

"Go away, I am not your mother." Hattori groused as he'd been trying to relax by the fire in the centre of the maze, used a paw to shoo the kitten away, lifting its rump up as he encouraged it to move on.