Twinkle Twinkle Little Flame

Manea smiled as her daughter admitted that it was sometimes simply easier to be awake at night. She tipped her head down to nuzzle between Fiametta's ears lovingly as she replied, "I know what you mean." If she didn't have the responsibilities of the pack and their family to tend to then she would be much the same. When left to her own devices she had often slept well into the late morning and stayed up deep into the night. When things were quiet and still at night It was easier to think and live without the scrutiny of others—not that she thought that anyone in their pack would criticize her that harshly, but the pressure she put on herself made her sometimes think they would. She left a gentle kiss on the top of Fia's head and turned her aqua gaze up toward the bright field of stars above them.

She lifted one of her paws, being careful not to disrupt her daughter's paws that were draped over one of her forelegs, and she pointed up toward a sieries of starts that were spread into a spoon-like shape across a portion of the sky. "See that? That really bright star and the ones around it that connect into a line right there?" She glanced down at Fia to make sure her dark-eyed little girl could see the constellation before she added, "That's called the Big Dipper. There's a bunch of constellations that make all different kinds of shapes. Pretty cool, huh?" She chuckled softly and looked back up at the stars, asking, "Do you see any shapes or anything interesting up there?"

"Manea Mendacium"