Totoka River aniruk ✿

she had stopped digging as tokha's voice rose, eyes glimmering with the pleasure of the unfamiliar words and their sweet cadence. "ah!" the duck exclaimed when her companion had finished, plume waving excitedly. "that is not silly at all!" it was truly a song for children, and she adored the talk of gleaming stars in the sky, how it had been woven into a song. 

"i do not think i know a song about stars," kukutux mused. "perhaps we will have to make one up." she decided to pause truly now, motioning tokha to do the same, and moving down toward the running water some ways from her denmouth. "i wish i had food to offer you," the duck murmured ashamedly, glancing sideways.