Home Alone
12-30-2013, 05:06 PM
Nizhoni was once again infected by his brother's mirth. The darker boy bounced and bounded about, all smiles. While his brother's face was upturned, he lunged in, making to playfully nip at his tail. Nizhoni wanted to play! He dropped for a split second into a play stance, before pelting off towards the lake. He didn't make it very far before something small and blue swept down at him for a split second. Fear coursed through him, remembering Enola's brush with danger only a few days past. It didn't take him more than a moment to recover, when he realized that it was not in fact a bird of prey, but one of the swallows he saw in the barn rafters. He followed it's haphazard path until he saw a number of them buzzing about in the nearby trees. Nizhoni was intrigued! He turned and called over his shoulder to his brother. "Eli, what do you think they're doing?" Nizhoni tried to take another few steps towards the tree line, but as soon as he approached two more birds zoomed at him. One got so close he could feel the wind from it's wings ruffling his ears. He gasped, joyful. This could be a game! He looked around, trying to find a stick or something in the ground. There! Not far a branch lay, and he dragged it to where he had first been dive-bombed. He turned back to his brother and grinned. "Want to play a game, Eli? I hink I've got a good one!" He only wished his other siblings were here so they could play too. "Speech" Think |