Explore outside
You finish your meal just after the sun finishes setting and so you stay through twilight until the night sky is dark and full of stars. When the stars are fully out you take your bowl to the kitchen and wash it in the basin using cold water from the little hand pump, setting it to dry on the counter top. The remains of your supper you leave in its pot, hanging close enough to the fire to keep it hot so you can eat it in the morning without waiting for it to heat up. With the kitchen sorted you begin walking back to your table at the window but suddenly feel a heavy fatigue fall over you, causing you to divert to your bedroom where you collapse onto the bed and instantly fall asleep.
You wake up in the morning feeling incredibly rested. You sit up and stretch, feeling and hearing all your upper-body joints pop as if you’d slept for a whole day, though you feel cold and figure it must be cold-induced stiffness.
Your stomach growls and you decide you may as well eat some breakfast immediately then see if you can’t explore the town – or at least muster the courage to. Instead of using the bowl from last night you take the whole pot of stew from its hook and carry it and a spoon over to your table, where you tuck into it with surprising haste. While you eat you look outside over the town, seeing more people walking around and that they are of differing sizes.
“So,” you mumble around a mouthful of carrot and potato, “there are children here too. I wonder if they’re like me or if this place is a world all its own.”
After your meal you decide you may as well get out into the sunshine. You clean up and head into your room. In your closet you look through all your clothes for a few minutes before deciding on a light yellow sun dress. You quickly change into the dress and head for the door, pausing before opening. “What about shoes?” you say to nobody at all before looking down at your bare paws and shrugging. “No sense in it, especially if I haven’t seen any, right?” With that you open the door slowly and head out into the world.
Out in the spring sunshine you briefly close your eyes against the brighter light of the outside. While your eyes are closed you take note of the warmth radiating through your fur, a welcome change to the coolness of your house even though the coolness never bothered you due to your coat of plush fur.
You begin you walk, your eyes squinting while they adjust to the light and you almost walk into a child.
“Excuse me, Little One,” you say quickly and check to make sure they’re not hurt.
“No worries, Ma’am,” the little girl replies, her eyes wide and her whiskers twitching while she looks up at you. “Aren’t you our new neighbor?”
Written by green-eyedtiger on 15 July 2017
