Sequoia Coast empty flowers

holy flip that would be awesome.. i wonder how expensive it would be....

He recoiled from her as she drew closer -- without pause she filled the gap, though she did not pursue him as he went scrabbling blindly backwards. He spoke but Caiaphas could detect the slight ebb of panic in it -- a low croon pursed her lips as she rejoined his whimpers in a beguilingly sympathetic manner.

Caiaphas was many things, but a mother she was not -- and as he started to sniffle and cry she grew uncomfortable. Stiffly she scuttled back like a crustacean chastised, a low hiss escaping her lips as his sniffles evolved into a steady stream of tears -- tears of which Caiaphas was not interested and incapable of quelling.

"Shhh!" She jolted forward, the hiss harsh as it rebounded off the dark cave. "They'll hear us." Her eyes widened and she looked at the pudgy, runty creature squarely. For a moment, she remained still. Her posture stiff and fauxly worried. But without explanation she dove deeper into the den and darkness as if departing his miserable company.