To Be A Cat

Rissa Realizes

RISSA WOKE BEFORE her parents. She stepped out of her little cabin in her normal morning haze and looked for the cat.

‘Here, kitty-cat, where are you?’

And then she saw the crumbs on the floor. At first that is all they were. Just crumbs. But then she saw the crumbs had fallen into the shape of words, and she read the words and gasped as something the cattery owner – whoever he really was – had said yesterday afternoon came back into her head.

He might have come to you but you didn’t recognize him. Trust me, keep your mind open to the impossible and you will find the truth.

Rissa’s heart drum-rolled. And she quickly got ready and put on her coat to go and look for her friend.