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@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ It was Motes who caved first, ducking down onto paws and knees at the last secon
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"Gotcha!" ey cried, scampering off to the forest.
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Motes galloped after her, giggling.
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Motes galloped after her, laughing giddily.
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A few more rounds of leapfrog — repeated a dozen times over with a dozen different instances — and both Motes and Warmth collapsed in the clearing in the woods, panting and laughing. They shoved at each other for a few seconds, rolling about in the grass and wildflowers before sprawling out on their backs, looking up into the cloud-dotted sky.
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@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ It nodded. "She really is, and I love her. She is...mm," ey squinted up at the t
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She waved away the utensil and glass of water, flopping back onto the grass once more. "That is why I like her, yeah," she said, folding her paws over her belly, pensive.
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Warmth dismissed the *frahabrodåt* and stretched out on their belly. "Now why did *you* get all mopey all of the sudden?"
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Warmth dismissed the *frahabrodåt* and stretched out on their front. "Now why did *you* get all mopey all of the sudden?"
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She shrugged, peeking over at the other skunk through the blades of grass and drooping columbines. "Just family stuff on the brain."
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@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ She shrugged, peeking over at the other skunk through the blades of grass and dr
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"I know, but like the smallest. Like, the youngest."
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Warmth huffed, indignant. "But *I* am the youngest! I am the babiest. That is my whole thing, yes? I am the most recently forked, the most recently-claimed line."
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Warmth huffed, indignant. "But *I* am the youngest! I am the babiest. That is my whole thing, yes? I am the most recently forked, the most recently-claimed line!"
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Rolling over onto her side, Motes smiled apologetically at her friend. "I know, I am sorry. We are the little ones, right? Dry Grass even calls us that. Her little ones."
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@ -176,15 +176,19 @@ Warmth sighed, stretching their arms in front of em. "I know she has not *actual
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Motes frowned. "Wait, really?"
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"I mean, I have not actually talked to them, but they cut off Dear for less." Ey laughed bitterly. "But again, I am also a little one, right? I have dated a cocladist before, have I not? My stanza also has our family dynamic, yes? Hell, Rye and Pointillist are *plenty* chummy, if you know what I mean."
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"I mean, I have not actually talked to them, but they cut off Dear for less." Ey laughed bitterly. "But again, I am also a little one, right? My stanza also has our family dynamic, yes? I have dated a cocladist before, have I not? And My and I have been getting close again, too."
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She laughed. "They just write each other letters."
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Motes laughed and clapped her paws.
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Grinning, it continued, "Hell, Rye and Pointillist are *plenty* chummy, if you know what I mean."
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She scoffed. "They just write each other letters."
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"Yeah. *Sexy* letters."
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"Well, okay," Motes said, still giggling. "Do you really think they have cut you off? Effectively if not actually, I mean."
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"I have not talked with them, but neither have they talked with me," they said. "I think that I am one step away from being in their cross-hairs. I am over here doing my weird stuff, making things and food and whatever. I am not really political, I am not being sneaky or dating a Bălan or whatever. I *am* part Dear, though, and I *am* small like you."
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"I have not talked with them, but neither have they talked with me," they said. "I think that I am one step away from being in their cross-hairs. I am over here doing my weird stuff, making things and food and such. I am not really political, I am not being sneaky or dating a Bălan or whatever, and My is off doing her own thing now. I *am* part Dear, though, and I *am* small like you."
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"Which do you think would piss them off more?"
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@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ Ey shrugged. "It would suck, but yeah." It thought for a moment, then shrugged.
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"Sorry, Mote." Warmth scooted closer and draped an arm over her front. "I did not mean to rub it in any."
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She nodded and tugged Warmth's arm up to hug her own around it. "It is okay, just had not heard it put like that before."
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She nodded and tugged Warmth's arm up to own around it. "It is okay, just had not heard it put like that before."
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"Dear got its fair share of getting cast out as it became more and more of a snotty little shit, and some of that rubbed off onto us. I have a fair few people who dislike me because of that."
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