Lo, There Do I See My Brother

Ricin didn’t call Chade out on his teasing.  In fact, after his antics Ricin was even quiet a moment and Chade wondered what he was thinking of, probably plotting what he felt they should do.  Chade forced back a smirk of betting it was more than shouting out ‘hey moon’.  At Ricin’s mention of Chade having potentially insulted the ghost Chade did grin broadly.  “Oh c’mon, when else might I get a chance to walk through a real ghost?”  While Chade had a natural bit of puppy curiosity about the whole ceremony stuff he found his curiosity on what ghosts were really like more interesting.  Walking through a talking specter was totally worth whatever the cost.

Wake up the moon?  Seriously?  Chade looked up to the bright object in the sky and shrugged.  It wouldn’t hurt anything right?  Well, Ricin howling was calling out their presence to every animal of prey and predator around.  At least they weren’t quite as small anymore so maybe it would be alright.  Oh heck, he was supposed to join in huh?   Chade huffs softly then follows suit howling to the moon.  Maybe the tone wasn’t quite as soul-felt but he did offer up a more formalized request that the moon acknowledges them.  Ricin requested a relationship, Chade was requesting a bit of business perhaps as a good comparison.  Doubt and intrigue warred inside the dark blue pup.  

“Wait for what?”  How would they even know if it did anything?   Sometimes coincidence can work in fun ways.  Was it fate, was it the land playing a joke on them or was the moon waking up and realizing it had been in the sky for too long?  A hint of light started creeping up, not much of anything other than a lighter shade of darkness but it was so clearly different for having grown used to eternal darkness.  In front of them, a couple of crystals seemed to shiver then decay.  Chade’s eyes widened.  “Uh, Ry?” He pointed a paw at the crystal that was flaking away.  “Not what I expected?”

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