Space Bound

Rina watched the brute go. He headed downriver where she had directed him for rabbits. She sighed and pulled her gaze towards the water. A dragonfly danced upon the calm water, settling upon a rock near the water lapping softly against the banks. Rina wondered what it must be like to be a dragonfly. To be able to soar above the earth, to have that power, but such a little life to do it all in. And yet, they stay by the waters edge and leap from rock to rock. What a calm life they must lead, so different, but somehow similar to her own.


After a long while the brute came back empty-pawed. He did not appear to have caught anything. Perhaps Rina had scared all the prey away when she caught her own elderly bunny. Not my lucky day. Gargoyle sighed as he lowered himself down on the bank, making the nearby dragonfly leap and dance towards another pebble. We've all had them. Rina sighed in return. She had now lowered herself to her belly, her paws tucked underneath her chest almost Catlike.


Rina didn't really know what to say to the massive brute, so she kept silent, staring at the habited rock on the far bank.