Firefly Glen too small to see the road

Somewhere in the corner of his vision, he saw her go tumbling past in time with her surprised cry. It set him off to laughing at first before he realized that the slope was just right, and he too threw himself haphazardly off the uneven footpath to roll right on along with her. It looked fun, so why not?

Only it was a disorienting, dizzying experience. Definitely fun, but only a few somersault rolls into it he felt his vision fail to keep up with the ever-revolving world, and his stomach rolled with it. A laugh left him, short and breathless as it cut off and left them to nothing more than the sounds of their tumbling through the growth.

Meerkat was winning on the hill rolling by a landslide, though, and there was nothing he could do to catch up. He rolled to a stop somewhere a few feet behind her, surprisingly upright even as the world swam violently in front of him. He groaned—this wasn’t quite as fun, but the discomfort had to pass eventually.

He just needed to get his breath back first.

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