The Peculiarity of Silky Sandy

One sunny afternoon in the mountains of Snowy Tops, a slithering silkworm named Silky Sandy wept.

Silky Sandy was of the royal silkworm family. And down in Vulnerable Valley, Silky Sandy knew everyone and everyone knew her. She not only knew of what happened beneath the ground in the soil but also of what went missing down below.

But on this peculiar sunny afternoon in the mountains of Snowy Tops, the jovial, jester-like worm cried. She cried and cried until her little worm eyes dried. She cried until her skin went arid and cracked. She cried like it was no one else’s business. 

She did so because in fact, it was no one else’s business; she was all alone up in Snowy Tops: away from the other worms, away from the busy life down in Vulnerable Valley, and away from the fame one inherits as a royal worm.