A Week Or So Went By 🐈🐈

 

            Toots was enjoying fall. It was so nice and cool at night and just barely warm during the day. It was just the kind of weather to set a girl to thinking busy and deep thoughts. Toots is nothing if not a deep thinker!

            So, she got to thinking about her buddy, Suzy, who lives in isolation underneath the old DOD desk in Milltown. She hadn’t heard from the girl in several days and feared she could be malingering down there.

            Toots decided to ring her up by TeleMrrrp™, just to see what gives, and all like that. She was still intrigued by the idea of traveling in time too. Goodness, who wouldn’t be? There was also the question of a newly discovered planet, named ED138, of all things.

 

            “Suzy, can you hear me?” Toots sent, and waited.

            The thought waves were silent.

            “Are you asleep?” said Toots. “Time to wakey-wakey!”

            “Maybe. Not much to do down here. It all kind of blends together, you know?” said Suzy.

            “What you need is a fresh POV, Suzy. You need something to think about besides those two big kids!” Toots assured her.

            “Easy to say, hard to do!” returned Suzy, somewhat petulantly.

            “Easy for me to say, but think about it. You know how they jump into every opening, the fridge when it’s open, cupboards, boxes, anything? Well, essentially, you are hiding in just the right kind of place for them to want to get into. Maybe it’s not entirely because you are in there?”

            “I’ll think about it,” said Suzy.

            “Meanwhile, have you given any further consideration to visiting the Old West?

            “Gosh, Toots, Sure, but can you narrow it down a little? Where? When?” said Suzy.

            “There’s also a new planet way out there? What do you think?” said Toots. “It would be completely terra incognito! We’d go where no Earthling, let alone cat, had ever gone before!”

            “Sounds like Star Trek,” laughed Suzy.

            “What?”

            “Never mind. Old story. Hey, so where are you thinking of in the Old West?” said Suzy.

            “I’ve heard of a place called New Meowico! Hot and dry, and full of Indians!” said Toots, all excited.

            “Let’s just do the planet. Does it have a pretty name? How will we find it?” asked Suzy.

            “Not so much, Honey. We’ll just have to concentrate on ED138, and see what happens. But sure, we can do the planet! I hope it works!”

            So, they both shut their eyes and concentrated together, murmuring, “ED138, ED138, ED138,” several times. They didn’t peek for a while, until they felt their minds lifted up into planetary space.

            “This is further out than we’ve ever gone before, Toots,” said Suzy. “Earth looks like a little blue, cloudy marble from here!”

            “That must be ED138,” said Toots, pointing out a little rock, roughly round in shape.

            “Well, what are we waiting for, let’s take a look!” said Suzy.

            It wasn’t a pretty planet. It wasn’t round like Earth or even the moon. It looked like it had been through some kind of epic space CATastrophe! There were deep holes all over it.

            “Looks like it bumped into something bigger!” said Toots.

            “Let’s go to the surface!” said Suzy.

            It seemed to them like orbiting would allow them a better look at the whole planet. They’d done this before on Phobos. It gives a good overview.

            Two things stuck out. One was signs of recent volcanic activity.

            The second was a sort of hovering cubic object, but turned on one of its corners. It shone with a dull blue light. From what they could tell it was about the size of a large human building, so not that terribly large. It just floated there.

            “I don’t see any doors or windows,” said Toots.

            “I wonder who lives there?” said Suzy.

            “I wonder if they still live there, or if it is something else?” said Toots. “It could be a ship, or something else that we never heard of!”

            “Let’s look,” said Suzy.

            But when they got closer, the thing lit up brighter and became transparent.

            “How does it know we’re here?” said Suzy.

            “A good question,” said Toots. “Look, it’s empty! I wonder if it’s waiting for someone who has been gone for a very long time? Or, maybe, they’re about to come back right now, Suzy!”

            “Maybe it thinks we’re who it’s waiting for!” said Suzy.

            “I wonder what the cube people called this little planet? It needs a better name than ED138,” said Toots. “I say we call it Bluette! In honor of the waiting thing!”

            “How will we tell the world?” said Suzy.

            “Maybe we already have,” said Toots, with a virtual giggle.

            “Bluette! That’s a pretty name for a tiny beat-up planet,” said Suzy. “I’m ready to go home. Are you?”

            “I think naming this place is what we came here for, our work here is done. Let’s go home!” said Toots.

            It only took one instance of saying ‘There’s no place like home,” and there they were, just like they had never left.

            Suzy opened her eyes under the desk, still considering coming out more.

            Toots found that she was up in her window, that the evening was coming on outside. The sun was setting and everything was peaceful.

 

MEOW!

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