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A Brief Explanation

 

 

The Grymcat Conspiracy may appear to be a strange and fantastical tale but there is a surprising amount of truth behind it. I have tried to protect the main people involved. Samti, Dawi, Molly and Edward have other names in real life. My editors, and their lawyers, insisted that I should disguise them. And no one ever even dared to tell me Ratona’s real name. But then she is a different being from an utterly different world. She does not fight her battles with legal arguments. She is more of a fire and brimstone type.

 

I have also kept secret the locations of this story. I can tell you that Samti and Dawi live somewhere in East Africa, and Edward and Molly somewhere in Europe. You may think that you recognise some of the places I mention – but that may just be a good disguise working. I cannot, however, even hint at the name of Ratona’s world. It must be completely hidden forever. Sometimes the threat of fire and brimstone is more powerful than a lawyer’s letter.

 

With my informants’ permission I have not written this record as merely a set of facts and dates. There is more to these events than their sequence. This is myth come true, legend re-enacted. Therefore I have recounted the tale of the Grymcat Conspiracy as a story and tried to capture some of the excitement, joy, grief and fear that the protagonists knew when they lived through these happenings. For the same reason the different worlds readers encounter may seem odd at first. Piecing how they fitted together was all part of the mystery with which Samti and the others had to wrestle. But if Ratona’s world puzzles you, worry not; its place will soon become clear.

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