My heart beats loudly as I stare inside. I don't know what this red thing is, but now I face the hardest decision of my 9 lives.

My favourite ball. That beautiful green, ringing thing inside, ball, that has given me so many hours of enjoyment has rolled inside the ...

Red Demon Cave.

I stare inside, heart sinking. It is an certainty that it is lost forever. I can see it, but it lays there, just beyond the reach of my outstretched paws.

I am not a scaredy cat. I have ventured into the dark recesses of every closet in the house.

It is not that I fear, for I have summoned the strength many times to chase down and destroy the dangerous house fly.

Its just that ...

beyond my precious green ringing ball ...

lays the most dangerous creature on the face of the Earth.

EEEEEEEEK. a mouse