ALL ABOUT THE "M"

 

She sat stoically while her humans blathered on and on about the M on her forehead. Christians said it was Mary who put it there, for the Muslims it was the prophet Mohammad. In all her cycles, no one had come close with an explanation. It was simply a genetic quirk but boy, did it make the apes happy to create tales about. In feline folklore, desert cats with such markings were among the first terrestrial creatures that the Aliens encountered. They found cats possessed a intriguing combination of fearless aggression coupled with high intelligence, something that the Aliens prized in themselves. They were impressed. And the final icing on the cake was that the M reminded them of the stars back home.

The constellation Cassiopeia, whose star pattern resembles an M in Fall and Winter, a W in Spring and Summer.