Codes: Italics=grandmother, normal. Bold=grandmother telling a tale. Underlined=one of the children. Pick which one! (There's two.) Normal=me, the author! But I there's none of that….*shrug*

Hush, little ones, for I have a tale to tell. A tale! Oh, goody! What is it about? An old woman. Like you! Oh, little one. Yes, of course. Like me. Tell us! Tell us! Well then, hush! Yes, Grandmother. There is an old woman who is friends with the stars. She sits on the edge of the moon, and weaves. Clutter, clutter, goes her shuttle. And she weaves, from the very beginning, she has. First, in the eternal darkness, she wove the sun and moon. Then the stars. Now she weaves shadows, shadows and tales. She captures laughter, and she weaves memories and butterflies, too. And also… What else? What else does she do?When she cries, it rains.Why does she cry? Because this is a dark place. But we're sitting by a fire! The fire will go out when we sleep. And, little ones, because of light, shadows exist. I thought she wove shadows? She does. Then why does she cry? Because…Let me tell you another story. In the dark, there existed a beast. No. it was the dark. And it hated everything. Until…Until? It met a young woman who was always laughing, and it loved her. But she hated it, and she wove the sun and moon, and then the stars. She made the light. The dark was angry, and so it chained her to the moon, where she weaves shadows, tales and butterflies and memories too. And so she weeps because she was foolish, and because she wouldn't be wise if she was given a second chance. But, did you know? She smiles too, and that is why the sun shines. Grandmother? Yes, little one. Will she ever stop weaving? No, little one, she would not, even if the dark let her. Why? Because she has forgotten how to do anything else. That's sad. Maybe, little one. Maybe. Grandmother, tell us another story. Yes, Grandmother, another one! Well…Once upon a time, there was…A calico cat with beady button-eyes, and it sat on a shelf and watched the world go by. Until one day, when…