A Glow on the Glass

I waddled back up the wooden steps toward home, settling onto the glass patio table beneath the quiet dark. A hollow metal mesh lantern was resting right near the edge, its cutout star shapes casting amber speckles across the smooth pane! I leaned my round plush side gently against its cool, perforated frame. It slid with a tiny, melodic chime across the glass, sending a scatter of warm little stars dancing right under my chin. I rocked softly in place, humming as the quiet light wrapped around me.