Magic Graffi’s Aurora Paw-realis

My first 'energy cat' adventure.

Hello, and it’s good to have you here with me because I have a question for you. Did you see the aurora the other evening? You know, when the night sky lights up and shows off all sorts of beautiful colours.

You may be aware that this happens because of monster, magnetic energy storms on the sun’s surface, which are called sun spots. And sometimes the energy from these is so powerful that during a really severe storm, the invisible particles around our earth vibrate, and even glow. Normally I would have been fast asleep that night and so missed the aurora, but as luck would have it, I got a fascinating and unexpected surprise that evening. Let me tell you more . . .

Do you remember that I have a marvellous friend called Marmalade? She’s a small, orange marmalade coloured cat, who’s absolutely extraordinary. Why? Because – no kidding – she’s an intergalactic expert in Light, Energy and Colour (LEC). And after the Honky Donk Ball (in Book 3), it was she who joined me in the Woods of Wisdom and Wonder, when we went looking for Tina Turnip. (You’ll find the story about our search for Tina in Book 4. Once it’s published that is!)

During that particular adventure, something truly unexpected happened that led Marmalade to explain to me that the two of us are extremely rare and highly unusual magic creatures. ‘Energy cats,’ was her description. In this blog, you’ll find out about how being an energy cat lead to extraordinary things happening to one.

On that lovely, warm Friday evening several weeks ago, Marmalade and I were lying, stretched out on the red brick, garden wall at home, chattering away while staring up at the lovely twinkling stars. We were talking about the forthcoming arrival of a comet in the sky this month, when, all of a sudden, I got the urge to have a really relaxing stretch. (You know, like when you really want to have a big sneeze!) And, just as I’d got up onto my four paws and was easing myself gently backwards, Marmalade asked, ‘Graffi, can you feel a strong, tingling sensation in your body right now?’ And it was as if, by saying this, she’d turned on a vibration switch within me.

‘Strange that you should ask that right now,’ I replied in a wobbly way, as I started to feel one of those long and unbelievably trembly stretches coming on. ‘Because, I was just about to ask you exactly the same question. Yes, is my answer to you, and now I'm feeling all tickly around my whiskers, my tail and my paws.’

‘And just look at your paws, Graffi,’ Marmalade said. ‘Can you see, they’ve turned a bright orangey colour. And that your tail and whiskers have become sparkly yellow, while your fur is now almost entirely electric blue?’

Looking down at my paws, and then at Marmalade, I replied, ‘They feel all hot and are vibrating, as if they’re rocket motors. And my fur, tail and whiskers have a strange sensation of wiggly waves running through them.'

‘And do you know why?’ she asked, pointing a paw up towards the sky, and laughing. ‘Have a look up there.’ And, following her gaze, I realized, to my astonishment, that I was lifting up off the wall and rising upwards towards the different colours of the dark, night sky, which seemed to be shivering around me.

Looking down at Marmalade, I noticed that her paws and whiskers had suddenly turned a bright mauve, while her nose was a sort of flashing orange, like a roadworks warning light. And then she lifted off too, flying upwards to join me. Not only was this fascinating, but it was really fun as well!

'Can you now feel how light and magic it is being an energy cat, Graffi?' she asked. 'And can you sense the power and amazing energies that we're getting from the sun, even though we can't see it at all right now? You could say that, with our own bright and changing colours, we are Aurora Paw-realis cats up here. And if my predictive energies are correctly aligned right now, I think that we can expect this to happen to us again quite soon. I can sense it in me, like mini-tingles. Can you too?'

And strangely, it was true. I could feel some minute vibrations, but only in my claws. This was really odd and made me giggle quietly. And, once Marmalade had come close to me, we wizzed off together, down and around the field next to our garden, like two coloured drones. But what was was incredible was that while over the field, our eyes had become like very bright spotlights, seriously surprising the bunnies and brighten up their evening no end! After this, with a fireworks-like, fizzy-energy-feeling coming from our paws, we landed happily back on the wall, two contented and colourful, energy cats.

This was my first ever true, energy cat adventure and I can tell you that I've had many more extraordinary and exciting ones since, which I'll tell you about over time.

Your friend,

Graffi