Be the moon

Daphne’s ears flattened as the woman listed off the reasons she wouldn’t try eating the mushrooms herself, she seemed to know what she was on about… or so the young girl thought, until she saw her stick out her tongue and drag it along the surface of the strange throbbing rock. She pulled a face and glanced about, finding a small patch of the glowing mushrooms just a few steps away. They seemed to sway at her invitingly, and she wasn’t about to be told what she should and shouldn’t do by a woman she didn’t even know the name of!

The girl leaned down and sniffed before opening her mouth and closing over a small bunch of the mushroom caps, her chewing motion thoughtful, at least at first.

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