your fingers are a distant sky

Slowly but surely, the watching of the big, huffing beasts that snorted and munched on grass and not much else grew boring. Yeeah, these things weren't that cool. Impressively big, but they didn't really do a whole lot. Not that she really knew what she wanted them to do. Just more, something cool. Rolling onto her side, the child gazed up at the slowly moving clouds for a while. It was pretty out here, and the clouds looked cool, all fluffy like bunny tails.

Her attention was soon drawn back to the herd when something seemed to spook them and the animals went charging through the valleys between knolls, racing off away from whatever upset them. They were way cooler when they were running. It sounded like thunder, and she could feel it in her bones, pounding through her chest as the ground almost shook with their passing.

It was good that they disappeared, because she managed to suddenly lose her composure and balance for no apparent reason, rolling sideways down the knoll until she came to rest where the giant beasts had been grazing not long before. Looking at the sky as she laid there a while, Caelestis found herself thinking about how the heavens seemed even father away now, with the knolls on either side of her making the vast blue expanse seem that much more unreachable.

Righting herself at last, the girl shook out her pelt before looking around, still intent on exploring. She spotted a figure a ways off and barked loudly in greeting, shifting from almost to calm to bursting with excitement in an instant. "Hey, what're you doin here? Are you adventuring too?" she called out.