‘What am I going to do, Neko-chan?’ she asked the cat again.
When Neko-chan was done stretching, he looked at her lazily and said, ‘You already know, don’t you, Chiyo? You and I are going to run away tonight and climb Firefly Mountain.’
From my story Firefly Mountain, featured in the e-anthology Homespun Threads (A Patchwork of Fairytales), which is raising funds for the Homespun Theatre, a children’s company, to tour their production of Norwegian fairy story East of the Sun, West of the Moon in 2013. Available from Amazon and Smashwords.