Some disasters start with good intentions. Others start with cats who think graduation ceremonies need more excitement.
Mischief is a perfectly reasonable cat familiar with simple priorities: sardines, proper napping spots, and maintaining his witch Felicity's magical education through selective chaos. When her boring graduation ritual needs improvement, he helpfully destabilizes a portal. The result? He gets transformed into a human body—missing his tail, equipped with useless paws, and stranded in a dimension where monks keep trying to pet him.
Indignity upon indignity.
But the interdimensional mishap is no accident. For decades, a cosmic entity called the Collector has been systematically harvesting independent familiars to power reality's portal networks. Forty-seven thousand beings stolen, processed, and reduced to magical batteries. The bureaucratic paperwork lists them as "acceptable variance."
Someone clearly needs to learn proper respect.
When Mischief discovers his chaos magic can heal corrupted familiars instead of just annoying humans, he faces a choice: run home to safety, or accept responsibility for beings who've been waiting decades for someone to care enough to fight back.
Pack tactics against impossible odds. Sometimes the only solution is to teach rigid systems proper behavior through applied chaos.
Accompanied by Rowan, an academic who measures disaster in statistical probabilities, and a growing family of displaced outcasts, Mischief must infiltrate a cosmic processing facility, survive philosophy debates with interdimensional horror, and prove that cooperation works better than control.
Even if it means missing dinner.
Some disasters start with good intentions. Others start with cats who think graduation ceremonies need more excitement.
Mischief is a perfectly reasonable cat familiar with simple priorities: sardines, proper napping spots, and maintaining his witch Felicity's magical education through selective chaos. When her boring graduation ritual needs improvement, he helpfully destabilizes a portal. The result? He gets transformed into a human body—missing his tail, equipped with useless paws, and stranded in a dimension where monks keep trying to pet him.
Indignity upon indignity.
But the interdimensional mishap is no accident. For decades, a cosmic entity called the Collector has been systematically harvesting independent familiars to power reality's portal networks. Forty-seven thousand beings stolen, processed, and reduced to magical batteries. The bureaucratic paperwork lists them as "acceptable variance."
Someone clearly needs to learn proper respect.
When Mischief discovers his chaos magic can heal corrupted familiars instead of just annoying humans, he faces a choice: run home to safety, or accept responsibility for beings who've been waiting decades for someone to care enough to fight back.
Pack tactics against impossible odds. Sometimes the only solution is to teach rigid systems proper behavior through applied chaos.
Accompanied by Rowan, an academic who measures disaster in statistical probabilities, and a growing family of displaced outcasts, Mischief must infiltrate a cosmic processing facility, survive philosophy debates with interdimensional horror, and prove that cooperation works better than control.
Even if it means missing dinner.
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