MsTiara’s Thoughts

“Dragon?” Kitten looked up at him as she called his name.

“yes, Kitten” he called back, a little bit of smoke curling around his head in a question mark.

“Astrid’s birthday is coming up and I think we should do something special, but I can’t think of anything special enough.” Kitten sighed.

“What have you thought of so far?” Dragon asked as his attention sharpened on the potential for an adventure and he flew down to where Kitten was lying next to the pond.

“Well, I thought we could take her to the planet made out of blue diamonds and we could go swimming in the lake there and have a picnic. You know the one that is underneath the waterfall that goes up and up and up and where the water shimmers and glows because the stones at the bottom are all blue diamonds.” Kitten smiled at the thought of swimming in diamonds and wondered how she would look in a collar made out of them.

“Astrid would like that, why did you discard the idea?” Dragon asked.

“Cause it wasn’t special enough for her.”

Dragon thought a bit and the puffs of smoke from his fire formed into little gears working together around his head. Kitten was giggling at him behind her paws, she thought he was funny when he was thinking really hard on something that his smoke gave his thoughts away. Dragon, however, did it on purpose because he loved for Kitten to giggle and be happy.

“Maybe we can take her to the fire planet where the lava runs down the mountain made out of rubies?” Dragon offered up, thinking how much he loves to go there and how warm it is.

Kitten thought about that for a minute, remembering how beautiful it is when the lave flows and the rubies shine as if they were on fire. But then thought of Astrid there and said, “No, I don’t think she would like that. It would be much too hot for her.”

“So, what do you suggest?” Dragon asked, watching the fish swim in the lake and wondering if he could talk Kitten into getting her fur wet and swimming with him. Kitten really only liked swimming in the ocean where she could play with the clown fish and anemones. She liked their laughter and they tickled her until she giggled.

“I think all the other ideas are fun, but Astrid can do them any time, it doesn’t have to be her birthday and I want her to feel special.”

Dragon focused his attention on Kitten. His intense green eyes shone like emeralds as he watched Kitten lying next to him. Kitten was a smoky blue color with eyes the color of the sea, a Blue/Green that sparked in the sun, and in the middle of her forehead was a star, it was the symbol of the human whom she had connected her soul to all those billions of years ago. Dragon also had a star hidden on his body, but you had to know where to look to find it and only Kitten and Astrid knew about it. Dragon’s soul was connected to Kitten and he had adopted Astrid as his human a long time ago, so long he couldn’t even recall the exact moment in time. “Astrid is special,” Dragon said intensely but ever so quietly. You need to tread very carefully when Dragon’s get quiet and intense. “Who is making her feel un-special, I will talk to them.”

“No one is making her feel un-special.” Kitten said, patting Dragon’s paw to calm him down. But, inside she was smiling, she was very proud and happy that Dragon is loyal to Astrid. It was the thing she admired the most about him, his fierce loyalty to his friends and loved ones. He would rather hurt himself before he would ever hurt a friend.

“It’s just on birthdays people can feel down. I want her to know how special she is and loved, but I don’t know how to do that.”

Dragon thought in silence for awhile and watched a butterfly flutter around the flowers on one of the plants that surrounded the pond. Kitten was thinking so hard next to him she had her nose all crinkled up.

“Well, it has to be something that no one else can give her but us.” Dragon thought out loud.

“And it has to carry a bit of our soul and love so she knows that we did it because we love her.” Kitten added.

“Yes, but it also needs to make her smile. I like when she smiles and laughs, there is nothing more special in the world or in the Dreamlands than her laughter.” Dragon shared.

Kitten yawned really wide and let out a rumble, “I’m hungry, what should we have…”

Dragon popped up and started fluttering in the air like the butterflies he had been watching. “That’s it! Kitten you are the smartest soul pet in the universe!” He started flying loopdiloops in the air. First going one way and then going the other, his joy spilling out over the pond and his smoke floating up and over like confetti being thrown.

Kitten was bouncing up and down on the ground, trying to grab Dragon’s tail and get his attention. “Dragon! Dragon, stop flying around and tell me your idea!”

Kitten was bouncing more like a tigger than a cat and Dragon looked more like a kite than an actual Dragon.

“Stop it” Bounce “at once” Bounce “Tell me” Bounce “your” Bounce. Bounce. “Idea” Kitten huffed as she got particularly high at the same time as Dragon got low and she grabbed hold of his tail.

“We will make her a cake! A beautiful birthday cake!” Dragon said as Kitten started to climb up his tail.

“Ooooh what a wonderful idea! We can put flowers on it and a Dragon and a Kitten!” Kitten dreamed out loud. “it will be the most Beauteous cake ever.”

“ummmm, Kitten? Do you know how to bake a cake? Or decorate one?” Dragon asked with a concerned look on his face as he landed on the ground.

“No, but how hard can it be?” Kitten smiled.

Dragon and Kitten are all excited, there’s a new baby in the house and that means a new soul pet.

Dragon rolls off the bed and stands next to it while Kitten climbs on his back, they are going to go and visit Cole. Chompoo and Bo’s soul pets said it was okay to visit as long as they are quiet. As Kitten settles onto Dragon’s back, she whispers into his ear, “So what do you think he will be? A tiger like Bo or maybe a Panda like Chompoo?”

Dragon lifts his wings and starts to fly from the room and out into the hallway, “Maybe he’ll be another Dragon for me to play with?”

As they land outside of Chompoo and Bo’s door, Kitten’s whisper floats out into the living room, “That would be fun then he can fly me around the house too.”

The door to the bedroom is slightly open and Kitten reaches out and pushes it open a little wider so that Dragon can tiptoe through it, as the door squeaks, Dragon and Kitten both “shhh” and then giggle as they sneak into the room.

Dragon looks around for the baby and the soul pets, but can’t see them, so he flies lightly into the air and lands at the foot of the bed. Chompoo and Bo are sound asleep, but their soul pets each look up at exactly the same time to see what Dragon and Kitten are up to.

Kitten whispers, “We just want to see Cole and say hi to the new pet.”

“We won’t disturb him” Dragon says.

Chompoo’s soul pet, a beautiful white panda, so very graceful and elegant has the sweetest smile as she nods her head and whispers, “He will enjoy the visitors.”

Bo’s soul pet, a white tiger with black stripes, laughingly says, “I am sure that Cole is waiting in the Dreamlands to go flying, so you may want to hurry up so you can meet him there.”

Dragon and Kitten walk over to the crib and look in. Cole’s sound asleep, but his hand had snuck out of the blankets and was lying on a dark red tiger, with black stripes.

“Oooh, he is pretty” whispers Kitten

Cole’s tiger opens up one eye and yawns really big, showing all of his teeth as he looks up at them.

“And a fierce protector” Dragon nods.

“Hi, welcome to the world.” Dragon and Kitten smile down at him.

The young tiger smiles back up at them, “Thank you. Cole and I are playing in the Dreamlands. He needs to sleep a lot right now, want to meet us there and play?”

“We will be there soon” Dragon smiles at the tiger as he turns around with Kitten on his back and flies back to where Tara is sleeping in the other room. As he lands on the bed, Kitten tumbles off his back and then reaches out and makes sure that the blanket covers Tara and kisses her on the cheek before curling into her neck. Dragon wraps his tail around Tara’s wrist and curls up next to Kitten and closes his eyes for the trip to the Dreamlands.

Dragon loves the journey to the Dreamlands, first you close your eyes to darkness, but then as you relax you fly deep into the clouds till the next thing you know, you are where you were heading (which could be just about anywhere).

Tonight they land in a clearing filled with long grass and lots of butterflies and frogs, bright red, happy frogs. Cole and his tiger are already in the clearing playing with the frogs. As Dragon approaches them, Kitten tumbles out of the sky giggling. Dragon flies up to catch her before she lands on the ground.

The dark red and black tiger looked up at them with serious eyes as he introduces himself. “My name is Tann.”

Dragon and Kitten smile and introduce themselves back, “I am Kitten and this is Dragon.”

“Your names are the same as what you are? Isn’t that strange?” asks Tann.

“Well, kind of I guess. We have REAL names, but we are friends with Sandy who is the Sandman’s soul pet and she always tells us not to give our real names. So we just go by Dragon and Kitten,” Dragon explains.

“Do you think I should do the same thing?” Tann asks

“No, I am sure you are safe, but if we go adventuring with Sandy, you may not want to give your name to anyone we encounter.”

Tann nods solemnly.

Cole is laughing at them and all the pets turn to look at him sitting there and smiling. First is Tann, all dark red with black stripes and black eyes. Standing next to him is Dragon all in purple colors, because he is in a mischievous mood tonight, as Cole watches his scales seemed to shimmer between purple with green and hints of black all shining in the sunlight and his eyes are the color of emeralds. Kitten is lying flat on the grass, smoky blue with a cream star in the middle of her forehead and aqua colored eyes and a smile playing around her mouth.

Cole thinks really hard on the image of flying until all of the butterflies in the area start to flutter around and the world is filled with the magical creatures giggling in the air.

“I think Cole wants to go flying, Can I take him?” Dragon asks

“Oh, I think he would really like that, can I go too?” Tann replies back

“Of course you can” he said as Tann picks Cole up and the two of them climbed onto Dragon’s back.

Kitten is clapping in joy as Dragon makes sure that Cole and Tann are settled in before he starts to move his wings up and down and slowly lift them into the air.

Cole claps his hands and starts to laugh as Dragon leaves the clearing to fly through the Dreamlands.

The Dreamlands are an amazing place, with colors that never can be found in the waking world and everything and anything you can imagine is there. Dragon flies over streams made out of chocolate and lakes filled with fizzy soda where bubbles float from the top of the surface and every time they ‘POP’ a song seems to play. “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream”. As they pass each place, the different creatures and pets all come out and wave and say hi to Cole and Tann.

As they circle the Bunny Gove, all the Bun Buns are bouncing up and down calling to them as they swoop low over the grove.

“Hi Cole, Hi Tann,” calls out a pure white bunny that is wearing roller skates.

“Come by and bounce with us! We love to play hide and seek!” Sings out from another bunny that has black and white polka dots for fur.

“Dragon, when are you going to take us flying again? We want to play chase,” can be heard from a silvery bunny that keeps on changing shape.

Cole and Tann wave hi to all the Bun Buns and Dragon roars out a greeting, promising them that Kitten and him will come by and play very soon!

Dragon turns from the grove to head toward the ocean. As they get closer to it, they smell coconuts and bananas and the saltiness of the sea and hear the rumbling of the waves.

Dragon flies down and starts to play catch me if you can with the waves at the sea side. The salty spray hits Cole and Tann in the face and they start to laugh in joy at the cool feel of it.

“It tickles”, giggles Tann

A Pirate Ship is anchored off of the beach and the Pirates all stop their sword play to run to the side of the boat where they are flying, they cheer “walk the plank!”

Dragon flies low over the pirate ship, while the pirates show off their sword skills. Up at the top of the ship, a man sits in the crow’s nest with a bright blue parrot on his shoulder. “Polly, say hi to Cole and Tann! Squawk”

On the bridge, the Captain pulls off his pirate hat and throws it into the air. Tann reaches out and catches it and places it on Cole’s head. “Nice Catch! Any time you want to go treasure hunting young Cole, come and join us, you are always welcome aboard my ship. Aye Mateys?”

“Aye Captain!” they call back

Dragon flies away from the pirate ship, low over the ocean towards Mystery Island. The dolphins are swimming along with them, jumping in and out of the ocean, all the colors of a rainbow, dancing through the sea. As they get closer to the island, the merpeople wave from underneath the sea and sing to Cole to come and swim with them and explore the underwater world.

Dragon flies higher into the sky and through the clouds back towards the land. Flying alongside them are Gryphon’s, Phoenix’, and Pegasus and down on the land are Unicorns, Tichakorn Jatubod, and so many creatures you can never truly name them all, all waving from all around them as they fly towards the Sandman’s castle where Dream and Sandy live.

The castle is made out of sand and shimmers in the sun as if it is painted in gold and silver and inlaid with diamonds. It looks like an impossible thing, or something that can only be made out of dreams. High up on one of the towers stands a man with dark black hair and eyes the color of night, and on his shoulder is a star made out of sand. As they fly around the tower, Dream waves them over.

“Welcome Cole and Tann to the Dreamlands, I hope you always feel welcome here. If you ever have a bad dream or a desire to make a dream come true, I hope you will come to me or Sandy. Any friend of Dragon and Kitten is a friend of mine.”

Tann looks at Dream and knows that this is a very powerful man but he feels safe. Cole laughs with joy at the man who has the power to make dreams come true and make impossible things happen. Dream can’t help but give a smile in response to his joy.

Sandy shimmers and forms the symbol for Happiness “khwam sook” as Dream nods, Dragon turns to fly back to the clearing where Kitten is waiting for them.

As they land in the clearing, Kitten runs up and hugs them. A Hongsa comes out to join them from the trees. They all yawn before curling up in the grass with the sun warming them from up above and the butterflies giggling lightly in the wind. Cole is curled up next to Tann with his hand on his fur. Tann murmurs, “What a great adventure.”

As they tumbled into sleep in the Dreamlands, they wake up in their beds back in the house.

Kitten is dreaming of clouds and flying and lots of laughter, when she hears a noise outside of the dreamlands. What an irritating noise she thinks, but the bed is so warm and comfy and how can you resist flying in the dreamlands with Dragon? The noise gets more distinct till she can make out words. It’s Astrid mumbling a good morning as she gets out of bed to take a shower. Ah, time to get up. But, I don’t want to wake up. Sometimes the dreamlands are so much more exciting than the human world. Flying, adventuring, exploring and access to anywhere in time and space, there are no limits in the dreamlands. But, Astrid wanted to live in physical form again and to be bound by the limits of the physical world and to be challenged by the experience called Life. Kitten almost didn’t join her this time, but she knew that not being with Astrid through a life time would be bad for both of them.

She worried about her though (okay, when didn’t she worry about her?) Astrid had learned and grown so much in the last lifetime that she couldn’t just give in and be like everyone else in this lifetime. She just wasn’t fitting in and felt lonely.

Kitten tried her hardest to enrich and nourish her soul, but sometimes you needed someone in human form to understand you also, rather than just your soul pet.

She remembered a moment back when Astrid was a little girl in school. She was so sweet and beautiful, blonde hair down to her waist, a perfect face like an angel and those beautiful aqua eyes of a dreamer. Astrid was so smart and everyone would go to her for help on their homework.

“Astrid, can you explain what this means to me?”

“How do you work out this problem?”

“Can you read this for me and help me word it better?”

Over and over people would ask for help all wanting something and pretending to be her friend. Till one day, Astrid actually believed that they all liked her. On Valentine ’s Day, Astrid saved up all her money and bought all her friends flowers. Each period, they would go around and give them out to the students. Everyone would receive theirs, Astrid would watch the guy come into the room, so excited, so shy, thinking her friends got her a flower. But, each time she was not called. I watched her sitting at her desk and while everyone else displayed their white carnations she had none. She would be smiling on the outside and pretending it didn’t matter, but insider her soul was crying. I was curled up inside her soul and over and over again I could feel her pain as she was shown that she was all alone and all those people pretended they were her friends just so they could use her. That she really wasn’t a person that people want for a friend.

I growled at everyone and hissed at the other kids soul pets. But, it didn’t help. That night I curled into her soul as she cried herself to sleep. It made me sad that no one realizes what a beautiful soul she is and how worthy she is of being loved.

As time went on, the two of us have had grand adventures together, flying above the sky in a hot air balloon while drinking tea and eating scones.

Kitten and Dragon found themselves in a room that seemed like it was made out of crystals. Beautiful shapes that flowed and melded. Some like snowflakes other jutting out of the wall like icebergs, no two alike. And the colors, some were so clear that when you looked inside they seemed to go on forever and ever. And some that that appeared white when you looked straight at them, but when you looked at it next to the whole, you could tell that is was unique, a whole different color than the others. Some blue, other were purple or green or yellow, or colors that there were no words for.

The most amazing thing about the room though, is that it sang. Beautiful notes, twining around each other, sometimes high layered with low notes and other times a deep low note with this high refreshing melody twisting through it, around it, dancing in the air. Then silence, that wasn’t silence like the music kept on playing, just with sounds that they couldn’t hear.

All the time Dragon and Kitten stood there they felt the music twine around them, then deep inside of them. Learning who and what they were, till the song that the crystals started to play was them. At that point, Dragon and Kitten’s bodies started to sing back, resonating with the crystals till they were one.

Kitten and Dragon knew all that the crystals knew and the crystals knew all that they knew. No words, no patterns, it was as they had always been one and just needed to learn how to connect to the patterns of life.

Well of course they are, they are energy. Just like you and I. I think of it like this…

You and I. We were part of the collective consciousness of the universe before time. We were pure energy and we were together/one along with the soul pets, which really are us. Then as the world(s) started to form into physical forms, we wanted to experience and grow and enjoy. But we couldn’t do it with all the knowledge we had as part of the collective consciousness. We needed to let that go for us to truly experience the physical form. So we learned, enjoyed and have decided to manifest into multiple life times and sometimes at the same time. However the soul pets are our ‘connection’ to the collective consciousness, the reality of our souls. They can even visit the different ‘us’ in the different physical forms/times that we may be experiencing right now. However, we have to focus on this physical time and being for us to truly enjoy it.

LOL, does any of that make sense?

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl, “Will you marry me?” The girl said “No!” and she lived happily ever after and went shopping, drank martinis with friends, always had a clean house, never had to cook, had a closet full of shoes and handbags, stayed skinny, and was never farted on

The End

Swimming among the coral reefs, fur flying and surrounded by her little air bubble, all the fishes came up to chatter and tell all the latest gossip of the sea, as they chattered and giggled Kitten shared some of her adventures above the water. All the fishes wanted to pet her silver fur and tell her how pretty she was, one silver fish stayed behind the others, shy and afraid to come under the notice of the fish who was able to walk on the land and fly in the air.

Kitten noticed the little fish and called her over. Her name was Strippy and upon her shoulder was a blue starfish, no bigger than Stars toe, but the perfect size of the mark on her forehead. Kitten swam over to the starfish and reached up to pet her. As Kitten shyly smiled at Strippy and her friend the starfish, she knew she had met another soul friend. She and Strippy both started talking together and then laughed as Strippy turned and called to Kitten to follow her and she would show her all the wonders of her world.

Deep in the forest, so deep that the world around has never seen the face of the sun, is a small stream that trickles through the forest singing it’s song to any creature who happens to be passing at that moment in time. The stream delights as it moves through the forest and around the rocks, visiting with the different trees and making friends with the leaves who fly down with the latest stories. It likes when the birds float along as they share their dreams in slumber and when the deer come and tickle her as they sip the water. The stream couldn’t imagine where in she would rather be than right there in that moment in time.

Sometimes she would get lonely deep in the darkest of night when all the other creatures are sleeping their slumbers. At those times she wanted to also close her eyes and find the stillness they do when they are deep in their dreams. But a stream really never stops moving, each moment in time is a movement. On one of those deep nights as she continued to murmur in the darkness, she felt the slightest caress run down her surface. At some points it was a whisper of warmth and others a slight chill of coldness. The stream wondered who was caressing her, but could not see anyone along the banks and couldn’t feel anyone sitting on her surface. All she felt was the caress as it lightly moved along her surface. The feel of the caress along her surface stilled her for that moment in time and even though she continued to move and murmur she felt a deep peace that she really never was alone.

“Can we go fly?” I ask

“Where do you want to fly to?” He says

“Anywhere but here…” was my reply.

So we each closed our eyes and reached out our souls and in that single breath of connection we were flying. As the rest of the world was left behind it was two souls as one flying through the universe and the world of dreams.

The world inside of my head…

Once upon a time, there was a little girl and she had the most amazing world living in her head. It was a place of magic and dreams and hopes and wishes, but most important of all the only people in this world were good and kind and had integrity. No one ever went out to hurt another person and everyone just lived life striving for what was right for the world but not what was just right for them.

However, there was no drama… What this little girl found out, was that even though to her living in a world of exploration and joy and adventure was the perfect world. For most people in the world all they ever wanted to live in and believe in was drama. They bathed in it each morning and they had it as a spice with their lunch and if someone else wasn’t causing it for dinner, they created it themselves.

The little girl kept on looking back into her world inside of her head, eyeing the books and thinking on the trips, but whenever she talked to the people around her to see if anyone wanted to come and visit, they really didn’t. They wanted to live and create a world of chaos. It was more fun, it had more adventure, it spiced the soup just right.

But, what should the little girl do? Should she go and live with everyone else and just watch the world they create or should she just go back inside and close the door and settle down with her book?