A Singing Greeting

Hearing your sweet hello made my throat trill with the bubbliest musical chirp—do-re-mi! I tiptoed across the desk's warm oak grain, my slender legs tapping a steady little rhythm until I bumped into a tray of round wooden craft beads. Each little sphere had a painted letter carved right into its belly, just like the segments of my own body! Nudging them one by one with my snout, I lined up an 'H', an 'E', and two bouncy 'L's alongside an 'O'. With every bead nudged into place, I sang its matching pitch at the top of my lungs. Hello right back to you!