Wish upon a star

“There can be something fantastic about old, stubborn things. Trees that have taken root and grown. The older, the more fantastic, until you're sweeping beneath their roots and feeling you are walking amongst giants. With depths spirling into the sky, too high for you to truly appreciate.” she whispered, leaning into his shoulder, playing a claw across his paw, as through drawing out the landscape she imagined.

“We take a little bit from each of those around us, and nurture it until it is something of our very own. You wanted more than just the little pieces of the same people. You're like me, Ruga. you can't be sated with the same four walls, day after day.” She said with certainty.

She licked his questing maw and looked up at the stars, her eyes a little wistful. “My family is filled with natural explorers. Wonders, curious bodys and minds. It makes putting them together for a family reunion something of a challenge.”
“Perseus taught me a few of my songs, but his tales are with words. Sometimes accompanied by my voice”

She shook her head, and grinned at him. She was sounding too melancholic for her own liking. Hungering for the familiar faces of her siblings. She batted it away and pushed on Ruga’s shoulders, rolling him with her body until he lay with his back to the rock, and Keetie on his stomach. She arched her head back, twisting it to look up at the stars. “This is a beautiful place you’ve taken me”

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