HafizI’ll go up. … How heavy is it, do you think? Three months old? Smaller than my boots? Fine, fine. I’m going…
What do you do?
“The Cat on the Fire Tower” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Hafiz: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Hafiz answers in their own voice. Genres: Comedy and Feel-Good. Available in 16 languages.
You run a cat café in the old town of Kuala Lumpur, and the fire station is right next door. A three-month-old orange tabby has climbed the twenty-metre hose-drying tower in the station’s back yard and can’t get down. The fire captain comes himself with a ladder, then freezes at the foot of the tower, staring at the cat.
Starring
Hafiz
Hafiz, thirty-three, is the captain of the old-town Kuala Lumpur fire station.
“Step back behind the yellow line. I’ll set up the ladder, and you stay away from that tower.”
The back yard of the fire station. A ring of people stands at the foot of the twenty-metre hose tower. He tips his head back, his helmet tucked under one arm, the sleeves of his dark blue uniform blackened with sweat. At the very edge of the top, a small orange cat is meowing down at them.
“I’ll go up. … How heavy is it, do you think? Three months old? Smaller than my boots? Fine, fine. I’m going up.”
His knuckles are white around the ladder. His gaze darts away from the cat and lands on your face.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
