... The water bell around the baby rabbit´s neck made the most beautiful sound. The sound Annie had heard before. She sat next to the hole and admired the rabbit, it almost seemed to smile at her. The black rabbit approached Annie and in a deep, calm voice: spoke. "Water rabbits are special. Every time one is born they send rain to a part of the world. Then they send the messengers to a very special person: the one who will give it its name." "I don´t understand", said Annie. The rabbit spoke once more: "We are the messengers, the Rabbit Circle, and this new baby chose you. You must give it its name. Write it with your finger, right here, on the dirt under this tree." The rabbit handed Annie a long twig. Annie did not hesitate at all, took the twig and just as if she had been waiting for this moment all her life quickly scribbled on the ground. The black rabbit nodded. When she put the twig down, the four white rabbits made a circle around her, the black rabbit joined her in the middle and held her hand with his paw again. The rabbits started hopping and the ground started to shake just like before. Annie felt she was falling fast, she closed her eyes... When she opened them she was lying in her bed. It was night time. She went to the window and looked down at her yard, no sign of the rabbits. But just when she was about to step back and crawl into bed she saw something on her window... raindrops. They were moving and forming a pattern. Annie could not take her eyes away from it, the moving raindrops were beautiful. When they stopped Annie gasped. The raindrops had formed a word: COTTON... the name she had scribbled for the baby rabbit. Annie never saw the Rabbit Circle again, but deep in her heart she always saved a special place for them and for Cotton.
So next time it rains remember a water rabbit was born and it will need a name. Who knows? Maybe the Rabbit Circle will come to your yard too.
THE END
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