Burst and Bloom [Bass]

“No way!” He gasped, his jaw hanging open, his eyes alive with wonder. The fact that trees, which he had always known to be lush and full of leaves would someday, someday soon in fact, be completely naked astonished him, and the fact that they would do so to sleep opened an entire world of possibilities. For the first time he saw trees a living things, something his sisters no doubt had no clue about, and he couldn’t wait to wave it in their faces. “So then…trees are…alive?” He asked, his jaw still agape

Bass had mentioned the evergreen and explained that these trees didn’t seem to abide by the same rules as other trees and were green throughout the year, and while he wanted to know if the tree would somehow object it was too perfect an opportunity to showcase what he had learned so far. He wobbled up to the tree and brushed his coarse fur against its bark before admiring the lower hanging branches. He laughed and raised on his back legs to bat at one branch particularly close to the ground and sank his needle sharp teeth into it before drawing back, his nose wrinkled. “Bleh!” He exclaimed, trying to scrape the resin from his tongue. If trees were alive this one clearly didn’t like to be eaten.

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