My friend Ivar, who makes excellent pottery, took this picture of Hades, & I think it sums up both Hades’ natural magnificence, & also his truly spectacular talent at getting himself ENTIRELY TANGLED.
In any case, I usually don’t take a lot of Hades pictures because he’s a longhaired black cat & pretty often winds up being a fluffy blot, but I got a LOT of good Hades pictures this Battlemoor.
In a WIDE variety of exciting circumstances. For example, this was his first trip in a golf cart.
![Hades & Loiosh, seen from behind from about the shoulders up, looking down a wide path through the woods with an SCA encampment to the right.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190713_102812_vHDR_On.jpg)
He was kinda worried, but as usual when I have both him & Loiosh out somewhere, he looks to Loiosh to find out if a thing is safe. Loiosh has had plenty of golf cart rides, so Hades was thus assured that it was Just Fine.
![Both boys looking out the front of a golf cart again; this time they're looking out to the sides.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190713_102749_vHDR_On.jpg)
He & Loiosh spent a bunch of time snuggled on my spare chair, even when it was pretty hot out. I don’t know?? But they were happy.
![The boys are sprawled on their sides, facing each other. They're holding paws & Loiosh has one hindleg propped up on Hades' side.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190710_142131_vHDR_On.jpg)
They were holding paws. <3
![IT IS SO CUTE](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190710_142115_vHDR_On.jpg)
They got to see a friend again! Morpheus was a tiny scrap of ferocious black fur last year. Now he’s HUGE.
Loiosh is pretending to ignore him, but check out the ears. He knows perfectly well Morpheus us there, & he is Not Okay With It. (photo by Morpheus’s mom.)
![Morpheus, a large shorthaired black cat, lays in his large cat stroller, looking out at Loiosh, who's sprawled on a chair, pretending to ignore Morpheus. His ears are indication annoyance, though.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/morpheus-2.jpg)
I had sewn this lovely backdrop for the booth, & I’m glad I sewed the ties on REALLY well, because Hades climbed the back of it several times, & once made himself a hammock using the backdrop & my chair. I had to sit catty-corner for like two hours, because he was where my head is supposed to go.
![Hades is basically enclosed in fabric -- white canvas above him & to the right, & he's laying on basically a hammock of patterned red fabric.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190712_143149_vHDR_On.jpg)
All in all Hades had a really good War. He’s pretty much used to the whole ‘living in a tent’ concept, & he LOVES having so many people visit him.
![Hades, laying half on his side & half on his back, on a folded-up piece of red fabric. There's a lot of belly involved.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190713_183836_vHDR_On.jpg)
Also he is VERY patient, & that’s a VERY good thing.
![Hades is in the same spot, but this time he's curled up, & also covered in tiny pinkish plant pieces.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P_20190713_185629_vHDR_On.jpg)
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