A Little Bit Happy

Bright blue eyes sweep the area around him, noting the way the grass on each of the small islands that houses a willow is already beginning to dry out. A frown pulls at his lips as he realizes that the flowers that dot the land are also starting to look brittle and, with the extreme heat and fact that the water here is already beginning to receded, it all adds up to a concerning trend if the weather does not change.

A voice pulls his attention away from the pond that he had been gazing into and over to where one of Mudusa’s children approaches and he hums a noncommittal sound. Brow quirks as he looks at her, saying, “Seems like something is on your mind Rue. Anything I can help with?” Maybe she could help to take his mind off the worrying weather and back onto something more concrete in the moment.

Eyes slide back out to the pond where cattails poke up sporadically from the face of the pond, their long stalks bending near the ends to dip the brown heads back toward the water’s surface. Lilly pads dot the still blue surface and frogs croak out from hidden spaces all around. And still, there is no breeze to be found.


"Enki Klein"