Scared of the dark

She didn’t expect Canni to pop her head up so fast and look down at her. When she jumped down, Momo moved to head towards her, but stopped when Cannis voice came through, a little more angry and accusatory than expected. Motif stopped, and flattened her ears to her head, looking at the dirt instead of at Cannival.

Her mother didn’t want her around right now, Epitaph was busy, Poem was avoiding her, and Canni was mad at her. Add that to the thicket and the herb garden she had grown with Epitaph as being destroyed.. It wasn’t an easy night for the young girl.

“No one is at home. Mumma yelled at me, a-a-nd I keep seeing the fire.” Motif sniffed, only just managing to hold back her tears. She had cried in front of Canni a lot lately, she didn’t want to cry in front of her friend when she looked at her so accusingly like this. “I-I-I- I didn’t mean to disturb you” she said, ears so tightly to her skull her head looked round, as she turned and started to walk away.