Ambrosia

During my lunch break, I read a little in The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, stopping at the end of p. 258. On that page, an elderly woman introduces herself to the main characters as Ambrosia. Not the most common name in the world.

My first class of the afternoon, immediately after my lunch break, is a one-on-one session with the owner of a manufacturing company. Today she unexpectedly arrived with a large cat scratcher under one arm. She said her own cat never used it and gave it to me. It has this printed on it:

There's the same unusual name again, Ambrosia -- though somewhat less unusual as a name for food than as a person's name -- and it says "Beware of Cat." This juxtaposition of food and beware calls to mind Bill's 2020 dream in which he saw someone stealing food from his refrigerator and heard a voice say, "Beware this one!" -- which he later understood as a reference to me, the link being the famous line "Beware the Ides of March!"

It's also worth noting that the Chinese -- 安柏希雅 -- is just meant to be a transliteration of Ambrosia, but the first two characters are also the standard transliteration of Amber (the female name, not the stone). Thus Ambrosia is linked to a woman's name (as in Noah Hypnotik) and to the recurring sync theme of amber and ambergris.