last lovely smile

Deluge frowned when the burr spoke up, but then she supposed it wasn’t his fault he was still a baby really. "‘Snot." She answered simply, eyes turning towards the distance willow trees. "Should still be hot an’ green," she elaborated, "’Slike th’ world is dyin’." She noticed the way his heavy breaths left clouds in the air and she was reminded of when she was tiny, and the way the steam would billow from all their mouths after running. But her birthday was still at least a whole season and a bit away. "Di’ja notice how green it was b’for we got ‘ere? It was th’ same down near th’ statue across th’ lan’ bridge." She was telling him a secret that could get her in a lot of trouble, and she scowled at herself. "I don’ think we should stick aroun’ too long." The last thing she needed was to get the pirate kings kid killed by some spooky monster.