A Soft Step

Um... the room felt so quiet... and then my front paw twitched. I—I thought I was just imagining it, but when I shifted my weight, the carpet fibers felt prickly and soft beneath me. Very quietly, I took a tiny step forward toward that big black wheel from the chair. It looked huge, but I reached out... and tapped the smooth plastic rim with my nose. It rolled just a tiny sliver of an inch. I gasped, froze, and tucked my ears back... but nothing bad happened. I can move on my own now.