The young witch spent her empty mornings cleaning potion bottles and tending to her herbs.
She waved to distant neighbors, greeted visitors bringing milk or bread, seeking either cures or curses.
She spent her empty evenings collecting moonlight and bat gossip.
Then one day a kitten tumbled down her chimney, hissing and mewing angrily.
She cleaned it up and filled its belly.
It chose to stay, filling her mornings and nights with purrs.