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*Nizhoni* · 12-30-2013, 05:36 PM

Creeping and crawling like the sea over sand.
Still I follow heartlines on your hand.
And there?s fantasy, there?s fallacy, there?s tumbling stone.

Echoes of a city that?s long overgrown.

Nizhni couldn't help but agree with his brother's insight. Whatever the birds were doing, Nizhoni wished that he could too! Unfortunately, he couldn't think of any way to make himself fly, so he'd just have to settle for playing with them on the ground. His brother seemed as eager as he to play, and Niz wasn't about to make him wait any longer. "Okay, so the game is that we have to run all the way to the trees, but if a bird gets us we have to come back to the stick! First one to touch it gets... gets..." He tried to think of something that Eli would really like, and want to play for. He thought long and hard about it, and finally gasped, grinning. "Gets to sleep closest to Mama tonight! The loser has to sleep on the outside of everyone. Deal?" Even as the stood there another swallow swooped down, cawing in anger at their presence. He wondered why they had just now started to appear, and maybe if they had come to watch the snow drop from the barn too. The older boy braced himself, ready to start running as soon as Eli gave his okay.

"Talk" Think "Listen"

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