Lots more riffing on the bats-in-the-music hall story, though it’s the Fall concert instead of the Winter concert. But what’s all this shrieking business? Bats sleep in the daytime. So I still think Jules Rivera is throwing out a red herring. You’ve probably already figured this out, right? No!?

It’s one of two things: It’s a group of not-very-talented people practicing inside the music hall. Or we’ve just discovered what became of the cat family left in Violet’s care (“Kittens and Kablooey”, 2024).

Anyway, Cherry is being unnecessarily catty (panel 3) when referring to Violet’s harp recital. Recall that it was Cherry who interrupted Violet in the middle of her recital at the Winter concert in order to introduce her dad playing banjo with a feral cat “singing” along. Wait … Singing cat; shrieking horror sounds. I’m getting a bad feeling here.

Finally, because I know you’ll mention it if I don’t, I realize what Rivera has drawn in the window in panel 1. But I like my theory and I think it would be terribly disappointing if Rivera is playing this straight and just borrowing the “bats” plot from her earlier story. If that were the case, I’d have expected Cherry to say something about that, as well, to lean into the joke.