June 27. “My turn, Button, to continue our story. Shall I?”

“Please.”

And where do you get the best food? Which apartment do you frequent the most?

Your apartment. I love the food that’s cooked there. For the life of me, I don’t understand why you’ve taken a call to go on a wild goose chase when you’ve lived such a comfortable life there!

I was getting a little bored doing nothing. The only reason I decided to take a break was to experience change. Now that can be fun or fatal. But there’s no harm in taking a chance.

Try it out. For your sake I hope it works out. Goodnight. And take care.

Goodnight.

Slowcoach slept a disturbed sleep. He had horrible nightmares and felt he was falling from a height when he suddenly woke up to find that a new day was breaking.

He looked around him. At first he was shocked to find he was not on the table top and realized that he had walked out of the apartment because he wanted to see the world. He picked up his bag and, chewing on a carrot stick, began to walk. He was determined to cover the maximum distance today.

He stayed to one side of the staircase and observed a lot of people, especially school kids running up and down. Slowcoach was amused that nobody had spotted him. Were they so unobservant? Actually he was happy for it.

Now that Slowcoach knew he had begun his journey from the 23rd floor, he began to keep count of the floors on his way down. By noon, he had reached the 22^nd floor. Slowcoach knew that if he climbed down one more floor by the time it got dark, he would reach the ground floor in about 11 to 12 days, even if he walked at a leisurely pace.

Slowcoach covered another floor by the time the sun went down and decided to call it a day as he was dog tired.

“Button, this seems like a never-ending story! Can you think of an ending quickly, please?”

“I don’t want to. I am having lots of fun. And, for the first time, I am creating.”