Noctisardor Bypass the stars will burn themselves out one day

the weather blooms warmer, more agreeable and as ezra grows, his hesitation at playing outside ebbs away into comfort. until it feels natural to feel the sun warm his face, because he was not a creature made to linger in the shadows of a den forever. if he settles down for sleep at night, it is it hold tight to the excitement that it would start all over tomorrow.

he bats around a small tree frog — dead ( from his ministrations or not he doesn't know and doesn't care ) — he found, not unlike a cat.

he does not stray out of eyesight of whomever is watching over him and the others — though it would be an impossible feat, even if he wished to!; content.