Which piece of dialogue from "The Catnapper" best reveals the author's message that problems are more easily solved when people work together?

Early Wednesday morning, Cara called Wesley in a panic about her own beloved kitten. "Simon didn't come home last night!"
"Oh, they're nothing to worry about," Mrs. Pebble said, waving her hand. "Both of their barks are far worse than their bites, I'm sure."
"That way everyone could pitch in and help rather than spend the whole summer looking for lost cats," Wesley stated, crossing his arms.
"There doesn't seem to be a location pattern, Wesley," Cara said as she pointed out the locations of the cats' homes on the map.

How does a wilted rose represent/symbolizes dark romanticism

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive