Eek! (A Halloween Tale of Horror!)

A bit of background, before my spooky story begins. There is no drywall or sheetrock in our house--most of the walls and ceilings are made of pine boards. The exceptions are the ceilings in the living room and the office, where some sort of thin, white, stretchy plastic cover has been pulled taut across the ceiling. It looks just like a typical sheetrock ceiling, and in fact I had no idea it wasn't until I needed to change a lightbulb, put my hand up to steady myself, and was very surprised to feel the ceiling give a bit to the pressure of my palm. Anyway, on with my creepy tale.
Late last night I was checking email one final time before going to bed when I heard a strange noise from above...kind of like raindrops on a tent. Imagine my shock when I looked up and saw something in the ceiling moving! It was a mouse! I could tell because I could see each poinky little mouse paw stretch the ceiling ever so slightly as it ran along over my head, making a scritchy, pitter patter sound. I know to most people, the horror of this story is the fact that there was a mouse suspended above my head in my strange, stretchy ceiling, but I was actually concerned that it would get trapped and die up there, so I consulted Kevin (who had been sleeping). He was, justifiably, not pleased to be awakened by my shrill voice babbling about a mouse stuck in the ceiling, and sagely advised me, "If it found its way into the ceiling, it will find its way out. I'm going back to bed." He was right, as by the time I returned to the office, the ceiling was still. But now I can't stop worrying about the fate of the mouse...what if it cheated death in the ceiling only to later find itself whisker to whisker with one of the cats? As I have established in previous blog entries, Toonces (pictured above trying to squeeze himself out of his kitty teepee) enjoys eating. So far, so good, there are no mouse entrails on my floor, no fat cats smugly licking their chops. Hopefully my spooky encounter will not take a gory, gratuitously violent turn after all!