This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

I have missed you. It has been so long. And I know some of you have been slightly vexed,

shall we say, by my absence? Okay, let me explain. First, I was carried away by dragons to the

enchanted forest. Then they dropped me onto a ferry on its way to ferry island. And then…

Okay, it's not really what I've been up to, but that would have been interesting, right?

The truth is not as interesting. The truth is it has been very challenging to find the time and space

and quiet over these last few months to sit down on my hard metal stool in my studio with my studio

spider scallowing at me from above. And speak lots of words into my microphone,

like I'm doing right now. Life does not always follow the pattern. We imagine it will.

If any of us didn't know that before this year, we certainly know it now. But I really missed

telling you stories. So I found a way. Let's just get to our story. It's part one of

little hedgehog and baby under the same sky. Take it away, Adi Malayo.

Remember, there are no pictures. You have to imagine the pictures in your mind.

You can imagine them however you want. Okay, here we go.

Baby, you look fantastic adorable. If we can get a critical mass of hedgehogs to use that word,

we might be able to get it into dictionaries within a few years. But we will have to document

this conversation. Also, we have to commit to regular usage of it in our own personal lexicons.

And thank you for the compliment. Little hedgehog and baby, her best friend, Valtime,

were in Little hedgehog's burrow. It was a Wednesday. Two minutes earlier, Little hedgehog had

suggested that she and baby trade clothes for the evening. Oh, baby, do you think we can fool my

dad? Do you think he will believe you are me and I am you? I believe we could fool my neighbor,

Sue's, because she is not observant. We do have different colored prickles, though. So I'm not sure

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