It was a beautiful day at de Bridge and SaraFerret was lying out in
front of her cottage doing absolutely nothing. Then just out of the
corner of her eye, she saw a sable ferret come spiraling out of de
sky toward her. She knew she couldn't move fast enough. Sure enough
de little sable hit point blank just next to her. (Lucky break for
SaraFerret, unfortunate for little fuzzy). She moved quickly to help
the little fuzzy up. A quick dust-up and it appeared nothing was amiss.
But den SaraFerret noticed a pink ribbon with a name tag dangling from
de fuzzy's neck--Zazooks, courier-in-training. SaraFerret decided to
keep her thoughts to herself as everyone has to start somewhere and
some of us have further to start den others. Den de little fuzzy
squeaked up and said:

"Hi, I am Zazooks and I am de new courier and you must be SaraFerret.
I guess, uh, I mustve taken a wrong turn, uh, somewhere, cause, uh, I
hit a headwind somewhere and I just went in de dirt. I has a note, uh,
from de Boss, uh, it seems dat a ferret named Lucky, uh, crossed de
bridge,uh on Jan 6th, uh and his Mommy Chris, uh wanted to know if he
uh, made it ok, and she uh, wants to know, uh, what kinds uh, wings he
has and if he uh met his friends, uh and that stuff."

And den she handed me de note. I refrained from saying anything and
just took de note. Den Zazooks spoke again, "Is there anything else
you need me to do?" I replied, "Oh no, everything is just fine. You
can head on back. Everything is just peachy keen."

I reread de note without de "uhs" and as I headed over to Lovebutton
Lane where I had last seen Lucky, I remembered de day I had greeted
him. It had been a nice day like dis one when an albino fuzzy with a
super heavy backpack made his way across de bridge.

After I had introduced myself, he said he was wondering if he would be
all alone here and asked me if I knew his Mommy. If I knew any of his
friends, and most especially if he would ever feel good again. I told
him he would see others later and den all of a sudden POOF! his fur was
great and he felt great. He said he was ready to go back home. I had to
tell him again, dat dis was home now. Ok, he was so disappointed. But
den I asked him about his backpack, and he was shocked and asked me how
I knew! I pointed out we all came with dem, but I didn't wanted to take
anything away from him, I just was nosey. Den he carefully unzipped his
pack and took out 1 snug sack, lotsa treats, pom poms, and a small
thermos (very small) of mac and cheese dat his Mommy had made. He was
planning to share it with his friends if dere were any here. Den he
tried to stuff it all back into de pack----we had to leave the snug
sack out--it just wouldn't fit any more. Den I told him about de wings
he would get--dat he would be able to fly about de clouds with dem.
Well, dat seem to really cheer him up.

So off we went down de path to de Wing House where de wings were
stored, but right before den, he met Reno, and Bonnie, Crystal and
Tiny, and Hooky and Precious Peanut. Now he knew I hadn't been just
telling him stories. So we opened de door and on de counter was a big
box (of course). Lucky opened de box and took out de wings--Neon
green with black tips. Bonnie helped him put on de wings and Reno
adjusted his halo. Den he ran to de big vanity mirror and gazed at his
reflection and saw what a handsome ferret he now was. After all dat, we
headed to his new home at Lovebutton Lane where a party was planned.

All dis was running thru my mind when I finally reached dere cottage. I
found de group digging a tunnel in front. "Where is Lucky?" I asked. "I
am down here." answered a voice from de tunnel. And sure enough he soon
came out. "Well, Lucky, I have a note from your Mommy wanting to know
if you arrived and how you are doing. So lets go let her know."

So we all headed up de road to de Misting Pond and sat down beside de
cool clear water. With one swish a vision of his Mommy appeared. Lucky
started to wave and dook with all of his might.

"Mommy I love you. I got here ok. Thank you for loving me. All my
friends are here. We ate all the mac and cheese. Send more. I have
wings now and I can fly. I can dig tunnels here but I can't dig them
down to you yet."

Den he began to throw hugs, kisses, and promises to visit her one day
in her dreams and wrapped dem with all of his love and laid dem on a
nearby shooting star which was headed to your house and by de time you
should read dis it should have landed dere. And with another swish de
vision was gone. So with a sigh, we all got up and de Lovebutton gang
headed back to dere Lane to continue digging dere tunnel and playing
dere games. As for me, I headed back to my cottage to continue resting
and hopefully stay out of de way of any wayway couriers.

So ended another day at de Rainbow Bridge.

Lovey and hugs,
SaraFerret, bridgegreeter

[Posted in FML 6219]