Count Catula

Description

Count Catula is an old tomcat with a trembling chin and chattering teeth, who has only two long fangs left. He is so old that some believe him immortal. He suffers from a strange affliction, close to that of the Hooting Kittens: no one knows whether he is an eccentric putting on airs, a true Hooting Kitten, or something worse.

He only goes out at night, in an odd purple costume, to eat sweet red berries. He has frightened many insomniacs and lovers by leaping out of a bush, his face smeared with blood-colored jelly. Even King Walter fears him and avoids provoking him.

In his old creaking manor, far from everything, he takes in the Kingdom's Hooting Kittens who have nowhere else to go. They see him as their father, sleep at his home by day, sheltered from the sun, and party there at night.