The Build-a-Bear alarm

I happened to be in the bathroom when the unfamiliar sound reached my ears.

Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.

What the fuck is that? I thought I’d learned all the sounds mySentry can make! This sounds like a… a cat? Well, an electronic version of a cat, anyway.

I hurried to the library, were myAssistant was on duty on my desk. Nothing was amiss. A clean trace line danced across the screen. While my blood sugar was nothing to brag about, it wasn’t that bad.

Battery green, insulin yellow, telemetry good, need to calibrate the sensor soon, sensor has a day to go. Nothing amiss. So…?

Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.

Huh? Wait a sec. That sounded like it came from the living room. I opened one of the twin French doors to the library and stuck my head out. Nothing. Rio was sitting on the couch watching TV.

Hey, Ree, was there some sort of weird alarm on the TV show? I asked.

“No. Not that I recall. What do you mean by ‘weird’?”

Well… Well, actually it sounded a bit like a cat. Maybe a kitten. But electronic. Not a sound I’ve ever heard either of our cats make.

“Oh,” said Rio, “was this the noise?” And he held up Hippie Cheetah who said:

Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.

“I’d forgotten Branny can talk,” said Rio beaming, “you just need to squeeze her paw… like this…”

Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.
Mew-mew-mew.

Ah. Not a mySentry alarm. A Build-a-Bear alarm.

Oh, and speaking of alarms, the pump has been a quiet as the grave today.