Welcome to my McSniff Thursday and a new instalment of ‘the fishy lighthouse’. Thinking up a plot for these silly cats and a life in Paris has been evolving and giving me lots of smiles writing it. Let us continue at Lady Chambelle’s house and William getting the first part of what happened with the cursed diary.
The Fishy Lighthouse! Part 8
William and Kitty leave the room and walk down the stairs where they meat up with Cooky holding some cupcakes in her paws. The three of them walk over to the room where Lady Chambelle and Richard are waiting.
“Welcome William, and again thank you for saving me and my beautiful wife. You sure left a big impression on her.” Richard stand beside the table and gestures to be seated on the empty chair.
-“Please call me Will, and I am not sure what kind of impression I could have made. “William takes his seat and watches Lady Chambelle poor him a cup of tea.
“No need to be shy Will, you showed us we can over come our fears. Like the fear of water, that bath once used to it is incredible”
-“Please Lady Chambelle, I did not do anything, other than being me.”
“Still I thank you William and please I consider us friends so you can call me Cynthia”
-“Enough with the soap acting. Here, have a cupcake Milady” Cooky shoves the cupcakes on the table “You sure made it fun, William laddy. Milady has loosened up a little after the rescue. Even thinking about learning to swim, imagine that. Now tell me what you think of these cupcakes I made.”
“That be enough of that Cooky. No need to spill all our girly secrets now.” Lady Chambelle puts a paw over the face of Cooky and looks at Kitty who is smiling. “You two have some tea with us as well, you earned to know about the story of how we were created.”
The tea is poured into the cups and the cupcakes shared on small matching saucers by Lady Chambelle with the help of Cooky. While the two ladies grab their seat it is Richard standing up. And pacing around with a certain feel of nervousness.
“I promised you this story William…, Sorry Will about how it all started and how one can move between the real world you know and this Paris with cats. I bought the Diary and thought the text on the outside would fit the purpose of it. Writing stories in it about becoming an hero. Never expecting it to be cursed. I build this city, this Paris with the obvious love for cats. As a writer I let my imagination run free and gave it a king. This was all done beside more stories and before I knew it I was reading one story and like you got sucked into it. Not sure how to explain it to you. But basically a clone is created for the time you are needed to fix a problem.”
-“Richard do not get me wrong but how do I get back” I take a bite out of the cupcake and taste some salmon with some herbs.
Richard is playing with his whiskers and looks straight at William, “I know Will and please let me continue.”
“The story started to lead a life of its own once written. So the problems caused are those of external people like Monarch or the witch who cursed the diary and last but not least the inhabitants. I met her, the witch, and learned how to go in and out of the diary. At first it is during sleep or being knocked out that you enter this world. Finding your purpose is when you loose your heart in the story. You change into that what you were in the story. In your case, becoming a cat. You have saved me as a cat still undergoing the change in the other world. I to have lost my heart here, to Cynthia my now beloved wife. I can still go back if I wanted to but after last time with Monarch, I decided I will forever stay here.”
Richard has been calming down as his story is unfolding, having even Cynthia looking surprised at some of his confessions.
©Ranting Crow2014
Hope you enjoyed this part of the story and be back next week for some more cats. Haven’t read “The Cursed Diary”? Find it in the Crow’s Nest next to all other stories I have been writing.
Best Wishes
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