a story for children - iggy looks for the sun part 1

Como se llama? = What is your name?
Me llamo IggySingh = My name is IggySingh.

IggySingh is indeed a clever little green iguana. Originally from the rain forests of South America and now living in the busy bustling city of Kuala Lumpur, with a human named Amreeth, IggySingh might only be four years old, but still she knew that something was terribly wrong.

You see, it had been raining for days now, and the sun had completely disappeared from the Malaysian skies. It was not usual for this time of the year at all, and the Monsoon Rains would only come at Christmas, so IggySingh knew something was definitely amiss. At first she was just very sad, and sat very very still looking for her friend Senor Sun carefully in the dark cloudy skies above.

Then on Sunday, after IggySingh had waited for Senor Sun patiently for hours through the gloomy skies, she suddenly realized that the rain was getting heavier and that the thunder and the lightning had started. IggySingh sat up as high as she could then and strained her neck to search for Senor Sun even more vigilantly. Puzzled, perplexed, and feeling quite quite cold, IggySingh was standing alertly up on her back legs, scanning the dark horizons high and low, for some sliver of hopeful rays. But her friend Senor Sun did not give her a single sign.

Now feeling gloomy and even colder, Iggy started to think about what would happen to her if Senor Sun never came back. It made her even more unhappy, and she wondered if she would ever be warm again. IggySingh was starting to lose the brilliant green colors of her natural skin, and as her skin became darker she looked over sadly at her human, Amreeth and gave a couple of very sad head bobs. Amreeth could understand the green iguana sign language perfectly and so understood IggySingh's sad question. Unfortunately her human could not help, as Amreeth too did not know where the Sun had gone.

Amreeth took IggySingh out of her green iguana home, and gave her a long hot bath hoping that the steam and the splashing around would cheer IggySingh up. Amreeth let IggySingh swim for hours but alas, it only helped for as long as the splish-splash session lasted, because when IggySingh climbed out of her bath, she could immediately see the dark grey skies all over again. Now feeling quite warm from the bath, IggySingh climbed and climbed to the very top of her green iguana home. When she finally got to the very top, she lounged dejectedly up on the roof, staring out the firmly closed windows.

"Oh, where did you go, my friend Senor Sun? It has been 3 whole days, and I am so very cold", IggySingh said out loud. On the top of her roof, and away from Amreeth, IggySingh spoke out loud, forgoing the head bobbing that she reserved for Amreeth and other humans. Magically, when alone IggySingh could speak out loud, but shhhh, it was a big big secret. Cicak, the Malaysian common house gecko that lived up in the front porch, had come in to visit IggySingh, and so heard this sad question.

to be continued...