i'd give up forever

So the thing about normal family units was that they have normal family structures. Abnormal family units? Well, there's no real leader. There's no real structure. There's no real learning. Sure, if you attach to one of the nursemaids as a young girl, everyone knows what you'll be. If you're always catching the small fuzzy things, sure, your fate is sealed. Well. The girl doesn't like any of those things. She doesn't like any of those things, and now it doesn't matter-- they don't want her anyway. They never wanted her, which was made clear by the fact that they didn't come back looking for her the last time she wandered away. An explorer by heart and a creature that didn't know the meaning of family, Selene was free.


Lionel. She likes the sound of that, and she responds by bouncing up on her hind legs and splashing back. There's a giggle, all bell tones and brilliance, resting in her throat. "'m Selene." She considers going on for a moment-- they'd called her starlit, they'd call her moonscorn. They'd called her dozens of things when she was small, but she isn't even so small anymore. There's something strange in her face as she catches her reflection, perhaps if she'd been a human girl it would have been a blush. "I'm new-ish here, in this place." But she won't say the words left behind, she won't say the word gypsy, she won't say the word wanderer. Those all feel so dirty. She's Selene.