Salem did not have a good joke lined up for this kind of news. End of the world, and not even impending but job already done, news. That wasn't part of the welcome package. Did that mean he hadn't been snatched out of his home, but saved from this apocalypse?

Did that mean everyone else was gone?

It was still sinking in while Felwinter left the cat there in the snow, and Salem thought that maybe he would stay there a little while longer, crouched over his frozen toes with his tail wrapped around them.