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I run a paranormal club at school, and the kids who attend certainly trust their instincts. They’re nobody’s fools.

Once a year, we play a game called Chocolate Fortune Telling. We ask a question which can be answered with a yes or a no, then draw a Lindor chocolate out of a box, without looking, to receive an answer; a dark chocolate means YES, milk MAYBE and white NO. 

As an extra twist, some of the chocolates have been removed from their original wrapping and re-wrapped in a different colour, so anyone who initially thinks they’re getting one particular colour ends up with a surprise. 

It’s great fun although, obviously, I have to set ground rules at the start and veto questions about accidents or death, or anything that might embarrass anyone in the group. 

Surprisingly – or perhaps not so surprisingly, since he comes up in conversation a lot during club meetings – a few of the questions involved Louis Catorze. Here they are, and this is how the gods answered: 

“Is Miss’s cat really an alien?” MAYBE. 

“Is Miss’s cat a vampire?” YES. 

“Is Miss’s cat possessed?” YES. 

“Should Miss get an exorcist for her cat?” YES. 

Absolutely nobody was surprised. As one kid put it, “I guess you knew all that anyway, didn’t you, Miss?”

Incidentally, this was a mostly-different set of kids from the ones involved in this incident. Oui, Mesdames et Messieurs: even the newbies to the group have figured out how weird Catorze is, in the short time me that they’ve been part of this club. 

Here are some photos proving the kids right. (I haven’t shown these to them yet.)

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