As the great beast snores his belly can be seen rising right from the entrance of his hideout if you’re close enough.
Above, the trees breathe with him. The forest’s heart and hands, though he sleeps he’s on guard for any child who finds it in the long grass.
His old friend is still here, but changed and scared into the underground, lamplight eyes stretched wide in fear.
He waits to go back to the forest, but this is where the humans are. Right now, their tasks are too far apart to take their night trips together.
The cat instead sends sparks from the linked weaving tracks and sees them in the tight dark. Stars
stars that Totoro will see tonight