Page 40 - Tomcats in Paradise

The white cat did not answer. He found his usual spot in a pile of
old bricks and broken pavement and sat down gingerly in a half-
crouch.
“I’ve got nothing to say,” he muttered. Then suddenly seized with a
violent paroxysm, Billy Bob retched and vomited copiously. Levi
leapt aside to miss the onslaught, and came down twitching and
screeching in pain.
“Sorry I asked!”
He remembered Eddie at that moment, and looked with curiosity
at the psychotic calico. “Hey, what about you? You were just as
famished as we were, and you didn’t leave the alley: why aren’t you
delirious with hunger, writhing in the final throes of starvation?”