Because it's there.

Every now and then, Mister Gato gets the urge to go mountaineering.

He can almost always get down by himself, though.

Here, the Lord and Master of All He Surveys perches above one of the overflow shelves of the enrevanche family library. He loves that battered, ancient leather briefcase I flung up there a few years ago and forgot about.

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