Cutting Lane

Cutting Lane is a location in The Wild Road. It is a small street with many shops, including a pet shop.

Love the World and Follow Your Nose
At the very beginning of the book, the Majicou is hiding on one of the shelves inside a pet shop in Cutting Lane. He watched a kitten that would later be revealed as Tag, deciding if he should become the next Majicou. He watches the kitten until he is adopted by humans, but once they leave the other animals at the pet shop go mad. The Majicou escapes the pet shop and wanders back out onto Cutting Lane.

Signs Among the Stars
Sealink and Pertelot are traveling after fleeing from The Alchemist. Pertelot ends up in Cutting Lane, where she gazes in the same pet shop that Tag once lived in. Behind the glass, she sees the Majicou. Pertelot suddenly becomes frightened by her surroundings, and hallucinates the ghosts of cats that once lived on Cutting Lane. They circle her, trying to communicate with her but Pertelot cannot understand them. Pertelot falls in terror, struggling to get up. The Majicou says "Come to me. Come to me now, and no harm will befall you." but Pertelot flees. The Majicou calls for her again but she runs a distance away from Cutting Lane.

They hear a shop door open, coming from some store on Cutting Lane. The Majicou exits as if he dreamed everything, and disappears.

Later, Tag mentions that he's been trying to find the pet shop on Cutting Lane that he was adopted from. He believes he can find the Majicou there, but he admits that the wild roads have been twisted and his search attempts only push him further away.