My eight-year-old niece occasionally uses my sister’s or my mother’s phone to call me and share her life updates, which mostly revolve around her latest craft project. She reminds me a lot of my younger self, so I try my best to be the adult I once wanted to have as a friend: a willing audience and admirer (or critic) of her work.
So during our video call one night, she told me that she just finished her art work of cats camping, with the kittens playing hide and seek. And to showcase her work, she wanted me to count all the kittens that are hiding from the ‘it’ that is the seeker.
She wasn’t clear about whose perspective I should base the count on: from my perspective or not? So I started counting how many kittens are hiding from my point of view. And when I told her how many I had found, she said I still had to look for the last two. When I kept giving her wrong answers, she decided to help me instead, and that’s when I learned that I had to find the hiding kittens from the seeker’s perspective and not mine.
After our conversation, I asked her whether she’d be alright with me posting her art here, and she specifically instructed me to ask you, my dear readers, if you can find all of the hiding kittens.
From the perspective of the ‘it’, how many kittens are hiding from the seeker? Can you find them all? Let me know in the comments!
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