WARNING... a little scary in the beginning but this is a happy story in the end. If you want to skip the scary part scroll down to the green smiley ( )

In a time long ago (last year) in a land far, far away (about an hour from my house) lived a little white knight. The land that he lived in was dark and scary with monsters chained to trees guarding even darker places. Big monsters all around trying to get him and no safe place to hide. It was summer there and very, very hot but the monsters had taken all the cool shade...
And you see, this was a very special knight. This knight was born deaf which means he couldn't hear. He couldn't hear the monsters snarl at him from the trees or sneak up on him in the grass. It was a very scary place.

(K, it's safe now)

Then, one day his princess arrived riding a not so shiny cavalier... The little white knight was sleeping in an old bucket and could not hear the princess come for him. She lifted the sleepy knight from the bucket and brought him to her castle far, far away from the monsters he had known.

Inside the castle was cool (gotta love air conditioning), food was abundant and fresh silver bowls of water were scattered about. There were soft fluffy places for lounging. Places for sunning (very important to the little white knight as sunning is what cats do best!) and places for cooling off.
There were others in the castle too. One who looked just like the monsters from the land the little knight had come from. She was the first to come up to the little knight. His little heart raced as she (gently) stepped on him and started kissing him all over until he was clean. Gracie wasn't a monster like the ones in the distant land, she was a friend (and a rather large dog). The little knight took a deep breath and admired his now shiny clean whiteness. Then there were the two maidens. One, maiden Emma, dressed in beautiful long, flowing, calico fur of orange, grey and white. Another, maiden Omi, dressed in short orange fur with stripes like a tiger (foreshadowing). The poor little knight didn't know that the stripes were to warn him that she was the grumpy maiden!
The castle also had many suns, some with planets whirling about them at great speeds (ceiling fans). The little white knight watched the planets whirling about the sun. Then it seemed as though the whole castle was spinning as the little white knight had gotten so dizzy he fell over!

That night the little white knight discovered he had a very special magic power, one that only creatures like him have. That night the little white knight began to purr... and he purred and purred and purred until long after his little eyes had closed and his body had fallen into a deep sleep...

To be continued....