The Girl and the Moon Fox

Lily is a curious girl with wavy black hair and amber-brown eyes, dressed in a sky-blue nightgown dotted with tiny white stars. Every night, she whispers good night to the round silver moon and watches a small fox glowing on its surface, its silver-white fur shimmering and a crescent-moon pendant hanging from a blue cord around its neck. She waves, and the fox waves back, and she wonders if it is lonely up there all alone. Her imagination turns the distant stranger into a friend before they have ever spoken.

One night, a cool breeze pushes her window open and the moon fox appears on her windowsill, no bigger than a cat, its fur warm and soft and sparkling faintly. It speaks in a tiny musical voice and admits it has watched her wave every night. Touching its pendant, the fox carries Lily out into the starry sky, over sleepy rooftops and whispering trees, to a garden that only grows at night, where flowers shine like stars and trees hum gentle tunes. They explore winding paths and play hide-and-seek among the glowing blooms. This tale by Ebru Mina TOMURCUK can be read on Onlinemasal Com.Tr.