The Master and Margarita
From the album “Watercolors by Gennady Kalinovskiy”
“I challenge you to a duel!” the cat roared, flying over their heads on a swinging chandelier, and then a Browning pistol appeared in his paws again. The cat took aim and, flying like a pendulum over the heads of the newcomers, opened fire on them. The thunder shook the apartment. Now there could be no question of taking the cat alive, and the newcomers, aiming accurately and furiously, shot back at him from their Mausers, at his head, at his stomach, at his chest, and at his back.