I woke up at six in the morning because my cats were trying to break down the door I close between us when I banish them at night, using claws and shouting loudly.
I tried to ignore them the way I have long learned to ignore the sound of nocturnal feline antics, but when I woke up more, I suddenly realised they were on the same side of the door I was. The side where they were totally not supposed to be.
I zombied out of bed, opened the door, and they made a very relieved bee-line for the litter boxes.
Apparently, they had decided to finally find out what the human does every night when they get banished, and had hidden under the comfy chair, letting me believe they weren't in the room. They had continued to hide there with great self-discipline even while I was reading three more chapters of 'So No One Told You' on AO3 before sleeping.
And then, they had totally refrained from waking me up while spending their adventurous night in the human's room.
But unfortunately, as this idea was an utterly typical cat idea, they had failed to factor in the accessibility of litter boxes, and had to wake me at six because apparently, their little bladders were bursting...
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