Nila lifted her paws to the grey sky and swiped them through the clouds.
A bright streak of blue appeared where she touched. She giggled, swiped again, and a stripe of yellow joined the blue.
Nila painted and painted until her paws came away clean.
She held up her shimmering blue paws and stared at the empty sky above the grey valley. She tried rubbing them together — nothing came out.
Nila curled into a tight ball on the ground and watched a raindrop slide down her fur.
Far off, she saw a small cloud creature pressing its paw against the sky — no color followed.
Nila's ears perked up. She trotted over and pressed her paw against the grey sky beside the small cloud creature.
A splash of orange appeared, bright and warm. The small cloud creature's eyes went wide.
It giggled. Nila giggled too.
More cloud creatures gathered, each pressing their paws against the sky.
Where Nila's orange met theirs, the colors melted together into gold and pink and green.
The grey valley glowed, and Nila's blue fur shimmered brighter than ever.