Ashlin was about to scream for Mother when she was stopped by a bright ball of light coming in through the open window.  The light changed until standing before her was a small boy with blonde hair and silver eyes.  He held a red kite in one hand and a ball of silver string in the other.  Along the tail of the kite were many blue ribbons.    

     "Who are you?"  she whispered.  "They call me Kite Boy," he said.  "Some people call me a super-hero."    

     "You don't look much like a super-hero," Ashlin said.  "Well, you can't tell everything by how a thing looks," Kite Boy said.    

     Just then Ashlin heard the noise from the closet again.  Frightened, she pulled her covers close around her.  "I think there's someone in the closet," she said.    

     "It's not someone,"  Kite Boy said, "it's something.  It's a shadow that got caught here when the sun went down and now it doesn't know what to do."    

      "Can you make it go away?"  Ashlin asked.  "That's what I'm here for," Kite Boy said.  Now you don't be afraid.  This won't take long." Kite Boy disappeared into the dark closet.  Ashlin heard a lot of banging and clanging.    

     At last Kite Boy reappeared with something dark in a net.  The many blue ribbons had turned into many blue birds which held the net secure.    

     "What are you going to do with it?"  Ashlin wanted to know.  "I'm going to fly it out the window and all the way to China where the sun is just coming up.  Then the shadow will be okay again."    

     Ashlin wasn't too sure about that.  "Do you think you have enough kite string to reach that far?" she asked.    

     "Oh, sure.  This is magic string.  It can go around the world and back."  With that, Kite Boy opened the window wide and the blue birds carried the kite up and up to where the wind is always blowing and the kite soared out of sight.     

     "Well," Kit Boy said, "I'd better be going.  If you're ever scared of anything again, you just whistle the blue bird's song and I'll come right away."    

     Suddenly, Kite Boy was gone and the bright ball of light was disappearing out the window.  Ashlin wasn't sure if she had been awake or really asleep and dreaming, but she laid down in her princess bed and closed her eyes wondering what a blue bird song sounded like.   

THE END.