“Do cats dream?” the girl asked as she watched the brown tabby cat’s feet and whiskers twitch as she slept.

“What do you think?” I asked.

She squinted her eyes at the cat as if she looked hard enough she could make the cat’s dreams become visible. The cat’s whiskers twitched again. The girl shook her head.

“I don’t know.” She looked up at me. “What do you think?”

I smiled. “Of course they dream. Everyone dreams or else how would we keep this world spinning?”

The girl smiled. “I like dreams. Cat’s dreams must be exciting!”

I took her hand and reached out my other hand to the cat. I laid my hand gently on her head so as not to wake her. One of her eye’s opened to a slit before closing again. “Then I think you’ll this dream.”