We’ve reached the end of Ambassador Whiskers’ Curriculum of Desire, and our beloved diplomat in fur would insist I announce it with proper ceremony, a bowed head, and perhaps a saucer of something vintage.
Chapter 9: The Graduation of Ren is now live.
In this final lesson, Ren stands where Lawrence once froze: the old forum open on his screen, the rain at the window, the past asking for one more confession. But this time he answers differently. Quietly. Decisively.
Transformation, as Whiskers reminds us, rarely arrives with fireworks. More often it sounds like a kettle clicking off and someone humming in the next room.
There is domestic tenderness, a few final philosophical jabs from our resident Ambassador, and a resolution so understated he’d call it “tastefully dignified.” Whiskers gets the last word—of course he does—and then makes his exit the only way he knows how: dramatically, mysteriously, and without cleaning up after himself.
This chapter brings the whole arc home: humiliation, risk, surrender, connection… and finally, belonging. Ren earns not just a new name, but a life he can actually inhabit. And yes, for those following the saga closely—he even makes coffee that doesn’t taste like awful.
Thank you for reading this strange, tender, ridiculous story.
Comments are, as always, considered diplomatic messages.
Whiskers insists on them. I merely encourage.
— Eric