Moonspear intervals of twelve seconds

Mintaka sniffled and sat up, rubbing a paw across her snotty nose. It was gross, but definitely worth it for her month of being a mud-monster. "I got snot up my nose," she explained seriously, sniffling again to keep it from dripping out. 

"I liked to play in the mud, but it made me sick, so... maybe I don't like to do that so much," she explained, though a bright grin spread across her expression. "I like to be a superhero! I protect alllll the animals in the forest." It had not occurred to her yet that she was also an eater of those animals - everything she'd ever eaten had come in the form of body parts or miscellanious hunks of meat. It was not the time to learn that. "I'm very strong," she bragged then.

A pause, then she tipped her head to the side. "What'd'you like to do, Auntie Keres?" she asked, interested.