Chapter 3
Kiki's expansive sigh of relief once she was safely off the busy street could have been heard a block away. The last she saw, before turning and diving down the black alley, was the tailgate light of the moving truck as it leaped from the curb and back into a slowly gathering stream of dense northbound traffic. Manny was going to be in for the shock of his life.
Kiki huddled momentarily in the darkness until she finally got her bearings. Doubtless she was near a large kitchen for she could smell different degrees of heat cooking different things and being in a kitchen wasn't unfamiliar. It had to be a big place she thought to herself as she took a chance and poked her head out a bit. She could hear a cook shouting and the clang and clash of dishes and silver and many other stri
