Mission To The Ekkkhso Planet

 

 
            “’Wake up, Little Suzy! Wake up!’” said Toots one night recently. She was singing it too!
            “Toots? Is that you singing?” said Suzy, startled awake.
            “Yup! I’ve got an idea,” said Toots. Suzy felt her whiskers bristle up a bit, but she was listening anyhow.
            “Brrrt! What kind of idea do you have now?” said Suzy.
            “Well, hear me out, OK? I kept thinking of a number. Weird huh? You know what number it was?” Toots said.
            “Huh uh, no idea,” Suzy sent back.
            “9. Over and over. It seemed like a mystery. Until it came to me, Suzy! I got the message! You’ll be so pleased, Honey!” Purred Toots.
            “Message?” said Suzy.
            “It came from an Ekkkhso planet, No. 9, the origin of all cats, Suzy! Think of it!” yowled Toots.
            “I thought they were still arguing about whether there are 9 planets or not,” mrrred Suzy.
            “This was a Pspsps direct! No question about it. We must go!” said Toots.
            “Will they know we are there? Can we find it? I mean, if it’s all mysterious…” said Suzy.
            “We’ll follow their signal right back to Planet No. 9. No problem. Are you ready?”
            “OK. I guess we survived the Mewn and Mrrrz too. Sure. Why not?” But she was feeling pretty Cautious™ all over clear to the end of  her tail.
            Nevertheless, they both put their noses down on their front paws and became extremely ‘thinky’ in a very deep way.
            Soon both girls were just points of vision hovering in the upper atmosphere of Earth.
            “I can see Italy!” said Suzy.
            “Stop looking down, we have to keep going. Think No. 9!” said Toots.
            Toots and Suzy both could feel the signal calling them from Planet No. 9 like kind a tickle behind their eyes, which was odd because their eyes were still on Earth. Nevertheless, both kind of hooked their virtual claws into the signal, like that! It was something like jumping a freight train.
            Before either could form a thought, the two little Expurrers were in stationary orbit over a small, lonely looking planet, very far from the distant sun.
            “I wonder how they stay warm here? The sun is too little,” said Suzy. And it did look too little and so far away. The girls wondered if this was a cold planet.
            They dropped down closer to the surface, being careful to ‘stay together’. You never know, right?
            It didn’t look like anybody was home on the surface. And yet the signal still drew them downward. The surface didn’t look promising. It was rough, rocky and looked cold. They kept following the beam of thought coming from somewhere on this rock.
            At last they found it. It looked like a small window set into the surface of the planet. There seemed to be a light flickering inside.
            “Bingo!” said Toots. “This must be the place!”
            “Should we go in?” said Suzy.
            “They invited us! It would be rude not to!” said Toots.
            So, they did go in.
            On the other side of the heavy glass was a jungle of exotic, unknown plant varieties. Fortunately, their bodies were on Earth. This would have been hard to get through. Behind all of this was a kind of round sofa-like piece of furniture. On it reclined a huge tabby cat, like maybe 50 lbs.! She wore glasses and held a roll of material like vellum on which there was some exotic markings, perhaps writing. It looked like neither Japanese nor Egyptian, or Roman.
            She laid her scroll aside, and spoke.
            “Ah, you’ve come. I wondered if anyone would notice my call,” she said. “I don’t see you, either of you, but I see a disturbance in the ether. (A cat thing.)
            “I am Lavinda. Will you do me a great favor? Now that you are here?” said Lavinda. “Will you take my children to Earth? I am nearly passed, and they will be alone. Our planet is nearly empty now.”
            “How can we do that, since we are not here actually,” Toots implored her.
            “I will ready them for travel. I will put them in travel eggs, and they will follow you back down the same way you came here,” said Lavinda, rising from her sofa, rather painfully.
            Then she called as mother cats all do, a sort of trilling song, and four big tabby kittens came running obediently to her.
            “They will know how to hunt for themselves if you just find a good place for them,” said Lavinda.
            “If it is possible, we will surely do it,” said Suzy.
            “Very well,” said Lavinda, and she kissed each of her children and one by one enclosed them in a kind of glass egg. “I will speak to them on Earth. Go now!”
            Lavinda opened the outer window allowing her children in their eggs to exit. They hovered in a group, waiting.
            Suzy and Toots accompanied them all the way back to Earth.
            “I think I had better take them to the creek. I was happy there when I was small,” said Toots. So, Suzy went back to her recliner, and Toots brought the kittens to the creek and as they settled down on the side of the stream, their egg shells fell away.
            “Thank you!” said each kitten as he or she scampered off into the moonlit night, to enjoy the wonders of life on Earth, far from their dying home planet.
            The two little Expurrers found this to be a rather sobering experience, but were joyful for the sake of the kittens and planned to keep track of them, and help them if they needed advice, or anything.
            Both heard from Lavinda. She wanted to know how the landing went, and thanked them profusely.

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