The white thing was walking.
Pat.
Pat.
It walked a little faster.
Pat, pat, pat.
Then.
Pat.
The white thing stopped.
The other sound stopped too.
The white thing walked.
Pat.
Pat.
From behind, pat.
Pat.
The white thing turned around.
There was a blue thing.
It had two feet, just like the white thing.
“What are you doing?”
“Walking.”
“Why?”
“Because I was walking.”
The white thing thought for a moment.
Then walked again.
The blue thing walked too.
The white thing went right.
The blue thing came.
It went left.
The blue thing came.
The white thing went a little faster.
The blue thing went faster too.
It went faster.
The blue thing followed.
The white thing ran.
The blue thing ran too.
The white thing stopped suddenly.
The blue thing tried to stop too.
It went a little too far.
The white thing laughed.
The blue thing laughed too.
“You went too far just then.”
“Yeah.”
“Why?”
“I stopped too late.”
“You did.”
The two walked again.
After a while, the white thing turned around backward.
And kept walking.
The blue thing watched.
“What’s that?”
“Walking.”
“That’s not forward.”
“Yeah.”
“What are you looking at?”
“Blue.”
The blue thing went quiet.
Then it turned around backward too.
One step.
Two steps.
On the third, it fell over.
The white thing laughed.
Still on the ground, the blue thing looked at the white thing.
“Did you laugh?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s mean.”
“Wanna do it again?”
“Yeah.”
The blue thing got up.
It turned around backward again.
This time, it fell on the second step.
The white thing fell down with it.
They both laughed.
They stayed there on the ground for a while.
The blue thing looked at the sky.
The white thing looked at the sky too.
“Hey.”
“What?”
“Can you fly?”
The white thing got up.
“Dunno.”
It ran.
Kicked off the ground.
The white thing went up into the sky.
The blue thing watched from below.
The white thing flew for a little while.
It made one big circle and came back.
Pat.
It landed in front of the blue thing.
“I flew.”
“I was watching.”
The white thing looked at the blue thing.
“What about you, Blue?”
“Dunno.”
“Wanna try?”
The blue thing looked at the sky.
Then at the white thing.
“Later.”
“Okay.”
The two walked again.
There was a stone.
The white thing kicked it.
It rolled along.
The blue thing caught up and kicked it back.
The stone went right past the white thing.
“Oh.”
“Went that way.”
“Yeah.”
They chased after it together.
The white thing caught up first.
Kicked it.
The blue thing ran.
This time, the blue thing caught up first.
Kicked it.
The stone went farther and farther ahead.
The two went farther and farther too.
Along the way, the white thing stopped chasing the stone.
The blue thing stopped a little farther ahead.
It turned around.
“That’s enough?”
“Yeah.”
The blue thing looked at the stone.
It was far away now.
“What about that, then?”
“Whatever.”
The blue thing thought for a moment.
“Okay.”
The stone kept rolling.
The white thing started walking in another direction.
The blue thing followed.