5/2/2025, 6:13 PM
Illithya smiled gleefully, her tail gently rocking the back half of her body. She was completely fine! Besides a few specks of dirt, twigs and the occasional grass and tiny flower mix that never quite left the tufts of her fur. Stumbling into things, albeit family and friends or the ground, was a very common occurrence most had gotten used to by now.
The girl happily acknowledged that her uncle indeed would take her advice and not eat them, her mind gently passing over the fact that he made it clear eating them were never his intentions. 'Illithya lookit! Ye scared ‘em away!' What?? She did not! "Lugh if they were scared.. they would’ve went out completely!" She defended her case with a protesting huff, turning her attention to where they had migrated, in which wasn’t far enough if they were really ‘scared’.
"Seeeee.. they just moved to better grass is all" She chimed, her held tilting once more to his correction towards her chosen name for the beetle. "They’re not on fire! And they’re more like other bugs than flies, AND they twinkle more like stars to me! So why call them that weird name instead?" She questioned, curious and confused, by her logic, her name was completely in the right for the twinkly bugs.
Regardless of the debate she would follow closely beside the boy in a matching trot, her head tilting, finding another one of his sentences to be rather silly. "Why do I have to be quiet, Lugh? I’m pretty sure they can’t even hear us!" This statement, unlike most, wasn’t warranted by assumptions! Well mostly at least.
After plenty of night of playing with the bunch, although recently due to the coming spring, she’d noticed they weren’t too fazed by her loud demeanor, only her movements; And when she talked to them, like most things she found herself conversing with, they didn’t respond, and even worse, they didn’t even pretend to notice her talking!! Quite rude if you asked her.. however between her spurts of concentration on the little beetles, she couldn’t help but noticed when one blinked at the other, it would blink back like a response.
Such a mild discovery made her question if that’s how stars talked too! She hadn’t yet asked her mother about it, but a theory like that immediately sparked the want to maybe learn the strange language.. unfortunately for her, it would be pretty hard without a blinking light on her tail..
The girl happily acknowledged that her uncle indeed would take her advice and not eat them, her mind gently passing over the fact that he made it clear eating them were never his intentions. 'Illithya lookit! Ye scared ‘em away!' What?? She did not! "Lugh if they were scared.. they would’ve went out completely!" She defended her case with a protesting huff, turning her attention to where they had migrated, in which wasn’t far enough if they were really ‘scared’.
"Seeeee.. they just moved to better grass is all" She chimed, her held tilting once more to his correction towards her chosen name for the beetle. "They’re not on fire! And they’re more like other bugs than flies, AND they twinkle more like stars to me! So why call them that weird name instead?" She questioned, curious and confused, by her logic, her name was completely in the right for the twinkly bugs.
Regardless of the debate she would follow closely beside the boy in a matching trot, her head tilting, finding another one of his sentences to be rather silly. "Why do I have to be quiet, Lugh? I’m pretty sure they can’t even hear us!" This statement, unlike most, wasn’t warranted by assumptions! Well mostly at least.
After plenty of night of playing with the bunch, although recently due to the coming spring, she’d noticed they weren’t too fazed by her loud demeanor, only her movements; And when she talked to them, like most things she found herself conversing with, they didn’t respond, and even worse, they didn’t even pretend to notice her talking!! Quite rude if you asked her.. however between her spurts of concentration on the little beetles, she couldn’t help but noticed when one blinked at the other, it would blink back like a response.
Such a mild discovery made her question if that’s how stars talked too! She hadn’t yet asked her mother about it, but a theory like that immediately sparked the want to maybe learn the strange language.. unfortunately for her, it would be pretty hard without a blinking light on her tail..
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