Mercury in gatorade or something

His eyes followed Deluge’s to the left and he saw… well they looked more like mule deer than rabbits to him, but he was very small, and that star wolf was very large. Maybe Deluge had the right of it. When she shooed him further away from the fire, well, it had been so hard to get up here in the first place! It took him an extra minute to measure up the drop and slide down to join her. His legs were aching from their long journey and when she flopped to the ground, he watched for just a moment as a sparkle of fireflies wafted up from the grass she had disturbed.

Now that he looked closer, it seemed the fireflies were making a second sky beneath them. He wasn’t too keen on that. It made his tummy do funny little flip-flops as he tried to remind himself, actually, no, they were on solid ground, he could feel it right beneath his feet.

He was pulled from his anxious spiral by Deluge pointing out one particular group of stars that were the most familiar in the world to him. They had been there his whole seeing life, but it was good to know he could spot them even from here.

With slightly weak knees, he moved and sat more gingerly than his companion, waving his tail twice to shoo any bugs so he wouldn’t accidentally sit on any. He tipped his head up to consider the sky spread out before them and the specific tangle his companion was pointing too. “S’ it a poptypus? Or a spider? Looks like a poptypus when I chase it back into the water with its legs goin’ all…” they boy wiggled dramatically. “They change colours when you chase ‘em y’know.” He wasn’t sure if Deluge had ever been around when one had washed up in the shallow pools along the waters edge before. She always seemed to be somewhere else.

“Speech”