The stars were shining bright that night, as Percy looked up at them, counting one by one; millions of them.
Percy was having a hard time sleeping. He had many reasons. One was that he was a space otter, and in space one would have to float around and he kept bumping onto other sleeping space creatures.
Another reason was his sleeping area was so close to the stars and they were shining extra bright that night. Counting stars was something that put Percy to sleep very easily.
However the stars were shining too bright that day and he kept miscounting them and had to start all over again; and having counted as high as a million, it was frustrating to start from zero all over again.
Percy thought of many things he could try to put himself to sleep besides counting stars. But being a space otter, there was nothing else that was in abundance to count. If he tried counting the other creatures that were sleeping around him, he would surely get very annoyed as there were only a few hundred of them around, and Percy loved counting by the millions.
Percy floated on and on and thought hard about something to count. He had one idea...no, that would not do! He had another idea...why, that simply would not do as well!
This went on for hours until he had been thinking of millions of ideas of things to count and all of them were uncountable to the million. It was then that he realised that counting ideas was exactly what he needed, as his eyes lids were feeling heavy and he was starting to doze off and fall asleep.
He was only halfway through this realisation, that Percy finally fell asleep, snoring away that the other creatures were awoken and he did not bump onto any of them, and with millions of brightly shining stars surrounding him.
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