How the Moon Learned to Dance

In the Ur-times, before Fox found his red and before Wisdom grew his words, Moon was sad. She was sad because for a long time she would rise in the evening and all the Things would greet her. And she would greet them each in turn. They would thank her for giving her silvery glow to the sunless time, so that they could work and play all through the night.

But the more nights that came and went, the less Things would greet her as she rose. All the Things were very busy, for Time had accidentally been made and it would not be long before it arrived.


And so, after many nights, Moon felt very alone. But still she would rise in the evening and set in the morning, because she was the Moon. One night, as she crossed the sky, she looked down and saw Ferret. Ferret was doing something very strange.

Ferret was bouncing! And Ferret was wiggling! Ferret was twisting, and turning, and it was all very, very peculiar. And so as she made her trip across the sky Moon looked down upon Ferret and asked "What are you doing?"

Now this startled Ferret, for no-one had heard Moon speak in a long time, so he stopped. And he looked up into the sky, and apologized to Moon.

"I'm sorry Moon, I forgot to greet you tonight!  My sincere apologies. I was just dancing." He said, and bowed.

"What is dancing?" Asked Moon,

This perplexed Ferret, for he had always danced, and assumed so did everyone else. But he tried his best to explain it.

"Dancing is where you jump, and you bounce, and you wiggle, and you twist and you turn and let your body do all the moving things it likes to do."

But the Moon had only wanted to stroll across the night sky, and shine. So she was very confused. "Like this?" She said, flapping her arms.

"Well... not quite..." Ferret replied.

"Like this?" She asked, hopping from one leg to another.

"Sort of..." Ferret was getting a little embarrased.

The Moon started to spin, and she liked it. She spun faster, and faster, and it felt wonderful! She spun so fast  that she forgot to ask Ferret if she was dancing.  Her beautiful dress spread out farther and farther, making a gorgeous, shining disk of silver in the night sky as she spun.

All the Things looked up as the silvery disk grew in the sky, and they were ashamed that they had forgotten about Moon. But they were also in awe of her beautiful dance, so they clapped their hands and Applause was born. As was Cheers, but it quickly left to find a drink. So all the things congratulated Moon on her new dance.

But Moon didn't hear them, because she was so happy. Dancing filled her with joy unlike she had ever known, and she wanted to feel this way forever.

So to this day, Moon dances across the sky, night after night, spinning and twirling, and showering Earth with her silver light.

And sometimes, Ferret will sit at night and watch her Dance.