Familiar Path: A Grown Up Fairy Tale 6/28/08

Pending title for the novel I'm currently writing. basically, it deals with children and innocence. (all familiars are cats?)

Helen is the tentative name of the main character and she has a cat familiar/partner tentativelly named Phillip.

in this story, things start out in a world of eternal innocence. Children are children forever and live happily here alongside a few animal familiars, creatures who were once in the "other world" as they call it, but have come back as animals to help the kids of this world. The story focuses on Helen who rather randomly and sort of casually mentions to Phillip, a black cat familiar, that she thinks she wants to go to the other world now. He's surprised, saying that that is a big decision, but she really wants to go. So they go to the judge and creater of this world; an old lion. He asks if she's sure and she says yeah and so he says she has a 9 month waiting period and can change her mind before month 6, but it is not reccomended to wait too late. Philip says that he'll be with her as long as she needs him.

Pretty much, the "other world" is, well, this one and 9 months is of course, the gestation period and so 9 months later, baby Helen is born. So she goes through life with Philip watching over her and does stuff and such. I like the dance scene where Philip tells her to live with no regrets and she dances with some guy. So she pretty much lives a human life of ups and downs and such and stuff happens blah blah plot.

Then at the end, everything about her life and Philip's is revealed and we learn more about both worlds throughout the story. It explores ideas behind birth and conception to death and the afterlife. It's what it says; a fairy tale for grown ups. I think the story will be both beautiful and touching as it follow the life of this free-spirited young girl and an animal familiar.