That's only four words, Firecat, if you don't count the doubled "even." I'll just extend yours.
One day, a girl awoke to find that her cat was missing. She looked everywhere, but it was gone. She thought that it was hiding somewhere in the garden, so she went and looked there. But she didn't know that she would find her cat only if it wanted to be found. Nevertheless, she kept searching for it. She climbed mountains, traversed prairies, even killed an epic monster in the