The Night the Stars Came Down to Play
One evening, little Meera refused to sleep. "The sky is too beautiful," she whispered. So the stars heard her β and one by one, they floated down through her window like golden fireflies. The smallest star, barely bigger than a marble, landed on her pillow. "We get lonely up there too," it said. Meera giggled and tucked it under her blanket. Together, they counted backwards from a hundred. By forty-two, both were fast asleep β Meera dreaming of constellations, and the tiny star dreaming of warm blankets.