You hit hard." He let Tolya and Lou guide him to the bench, dimly registering the applause from the Washington fans. Once he was off the ice, Lou and ...n assistant led him back to the quiet room, as required by NHL rules for any player suspected of having a concussion. The team doctor came in as well. Brody squinted against the lights and realized he had a monster headache. "Hey, Lou, got some aspirin?" He winced at the sound of his own voice. Lou gave him a grim look. "I think you're going to. After the interviews, I finally got to sitdown in my dressing room for a moment and prepare myself for theconcert. Before I knew it, I was being escorted back out to the stage.This concert would be different for several reasons. First, it wasearly in the morning (for me, anyway), so there was no cover ofdarkness to hide the transitions between the songs and when I waschanging. Second, the stage was smaller than what I normally performedon. The dancers and I had practiced for this concert during. Now be quiet Im going to try and surprise Tracie. I slowly climbed up the stairs, making sure to skip the one the creaks and went down the hallway up to the door to her room and attempted to open it. Thats weird, its never locked I thought. Right then I heard the door to the bathroom open right behind me and I spun around, startled. When did you get here Connor? Tracie said to me, trying to hide her excitement. Still trying to catch my breath from the scare she gave me, I said, I just got. I went back about an hour later, and neither mother nor kittens were there, but most of the container was empty, and the remainder had obvious marks of cat teeth and tongues. Mission accomplished! I thought that would be the end of it.Day 1To make this story considerably shorter, the next day, I saw Momma again, and found she was nesting in a trash pile just inside my back fence. That changed things considerably. My property, *MY* problem.I started putting some food out for her, which she.