Nico was named after Nico di Angelo. Nico di Angelo had been one of the many heroes from the favorite books of Aninna, Alice and Anilec. The name of the hero meant angel, which of course suited Nico (the cat), since he has a small halo around his head, so to speak. I climbed up the dusty bookshelf and through a secret flap out onto the roof. I ran to the other side of the barn and there I jumped on a branch nearby. I climbed down the tree and jumped at Nico playfully. Before he could catch me, however, I jumped away again and ran under brownie's legs. While Brownie looked after me, Nico touched her with his paw and then quickly ran away in the other direction. We played catch for a while, watched the girls and ran around the race. Nico and I then climbed into the hayloft and played hide-and-seek. When the sun went down, I said goodbye to him and walked back along the edge of the forest. I had completely forgotten why I had been there. I was thinking back to today when I suddenly heard voices in front of me. I quickly hid in the next bush and listened. There were two male voices that came in my direction. One was slightly higher, the other deeper and smokier. The higher voice just said, "... find them soon! It can't be that not even Brutus and Rex could find them! All good flauschi. Yes, you are a fine one. Yes?" The deeper voice spoke up: "We searched the whole country and found nothing Sir. We don't know where else they could be..." At that moment, the two speakers came into my field of vision and my neck hair stood up. One was slightly smaller, rounder and had brown hair. something hairy seemed to sit on his right shoulder. The other was slightly taller, blond and slimmer. It took me a moment to realize who these two were. They were Prince Araña and his best friend Loco. Now I also recognized the hairy something that squatted on Prince Araña's shoulder. It was his favorite pet, a large tarantula named Fluffy. I shuddered involuntarily. Fluffy seemed to have noticed me and hissed at me. Prince Araña raised his left hand and stroked Fluffy calmly. At the same time, he nodded to his friend, who stopped briefly and then jumped directly into the bush in which I had hidden. He grabbed me by the tail and pulled me out. I hissed and scratched and bit him, but he didn't seem to notice any of it. He held me up and showed me to the prince, who nodded happily and emitted a high whistle that hurt in my ears. One of his bodyguards came running with a large sack. When he stopped next to us, he opened the sack and Loco threw me inside. Before I could jump out again, the bodyguard closed the bag again and probably threw it over his back as it felt. I lost consciousness...