Jane resisted the temptation to scatter the blocks spelling out CAT. It would be the easy thing to do, especially given her increasingly feline instincts, but she couldn't know if it would turn her back into a normal woman or leave her stuck as a cat. It was safer to just spell out a new word, something she wanted to become.
So here was an M, there an N, along with a W. It took a little looking, not much, to spot the O. Great. She could spell out WOM*N, her new word and what she wanted to be, lacking only an A. This, she quickly realized, was a problem. There was only one of each letter in the ABC set, only one A. She needed the one in CAT, the one she'd already used but she didn't dare destroy CAT by taking the A.
Jane was an occasional Scrabble player, though, so the answer was simple. She'd leave CAT alone and spell WOMAN vertically, using the A in both words. It no doubt would have looked odd to a human observer but the little cat was alone and Jane quickly enough pushed the wood blocks around with her paws and nose, spelling from the A, first MA, then OMA and finally WOMA in a vertical line, all with CAT at the base. Now came the N. She pushed it around and below the CAT line, so that it was near but not quite in line with the other letters. She paused and looked everything over with her little kitty eyes, thinking about it one last time, before finishing. She hoped this would work.
Jane the little grey cat nudged the N block to touch the bottom of the A. Now the blocks spelled both CAT and WOMAN. Please, please, please, she thought. I don't want to be a cat.
