The dangers of cool shadow The little Worm fell silent: he was in the height of ecstasy. It seemed as if he were really living the moments of that dream. The Flea didn’t understand anything anymore about what the Worm was saying. “And? Aaaand?!” he woke his friend from his dream-state. “What happened next?” With difficulty the little Child returned with his feet to the ground. He shook his head gently and continued: “What could happen?” he said with a certain bitterness in his voice. “In the most pleasant moment, when I’d caught the uplifting taste of flight, of my first flight, I woke up: some stubborn rays of sun were tickling my back with their heat. I do not know how they managed to reach me! Because I’d fallen asleep in the shadow of a plant with a leaf-rich coiffure and a kind so

