✨ The Ghost and the Cat Who Saw ✨
Every night at exactly 2:17 a.m., the old wooden house at the end of Marigold Lane sighed. People said it was the wind, or the dry beams settling, or the harmless noises of a house far past its prime. But they were wrong.
It was him.
A ghost, pale as moon-silk, lived there. He floated through the hallways with a sadness that had long stopped aching and had settled into a habit—like breathing once was. Nobody had ever seen him. Not once. Not in a hundred years.
Until Luna arrived.
Luna was a cat that belonged to no one and everyone. Soft silver fur, a tail like a plume, eyes that glowed faintly golden even in darkness. She discovered the house the same way cats discover everything—by walking in without asking.
The ghost was drifting near a cracked window, humming a forgotten lullaby, when she appeared.
Small. Silent. Curious.
Her eyes widened—not in fear, but recognition.
And the ghost froze.
No human had ever looked at him like that. No human had seen him at all. But Luna tilted her head as if he were just another night creature, no stranger than a moth or a passing bat.
The ghost lifted a hand.
Luna blinked.
He whispered, “You can see me?”
Luna flicked her tail and calmly sat down. She did not answer—cats never do. But in her stillness, the ghost understood.
For the first time in a century, he wasn’t alone.
From then on, Luna visited every night at 2:17. She wandered the hall as the ghost drifted behind her, glowing faintly like morning mist. Sometimes she chased his floating fingers as though they were sunbeams. Sometimes she curled up on a dusty armchair and watched him fix the little things he still remembered how to fix—straightening a fallen picture frame, nudging a loose curtain, arranging an abandoned teacup.
And sometimes, when the moon was full, the ghost grew clearer—sharper. Less fog, more form. As if Luna’s presence tethered him gently to the world.
He could almost feel warm again on those nights.
One stormy evening, thunder rattled the windows and rain fell like handfuls of nails against the roof. Luna arrived soaked and shivering. She squeezed herself through the broken window and shook out droplets in a wide arc.
The ghost panicked—not with fear, but with a sudden, fierce concern he had forgotten he could feel. Instinctively, he reached to shield her from the draft.
And for the first time—
His hand cast a faint shadow.
Luna stepped into that shadow as if she had been waiting for it. She circled twice and settled, pressing herself into the misty warmth of his presence.
The ghost sat beside her.
Outside, the storm roared.
Inside, a ghost and a cat shared a quiet, impossible moment.
After the storm, people on Marigold Lane whispered that the old house seemed somehow brighter. Less haunted. As if something had shifted. As if a lonely spirit had finally found a companion.
They didn’t know about Luna, who continued to visit each night.
And they didn’t know that on some evenings, when the moonlight hit just right, a soft glow illuminated the dusty hallways—and a silver cat walked confidently beside it, tail high, perfectly content with her strange, spectral friend.
Because a ghost being seen was one thing…
But being chosen by a cat?
That was magic.
🐾 Some spirits wait a century to be seen—others only need a cat to choose them. 🐾
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