Broken Antler Fen Scarlet

teya thought a long and solemn moment before answering. "want to be star-watcher," she said shyly. it was not something so useful as hunting or tracking prey, and so she added, "want to know best fishing too." but truly the skies held her heart; she thought of all the times in months past she had looked at them, sighing in hopes she might be one.
a meek light flushed her features. "i do not know everything," she admitted, perhaps redundantly. "but i take this time to learn." to know what it meant to exist and to love, what it meant to be raven in brecheliant. who wraen was, who maia would be, who bridget would become. who ibis might become.
heart thrummed faster.