12-15-2016, 07:17 AM
we’re on each other’s team…
The rustle of leaves was the tale-telling sign of a creature on their borders. And as always, the woman was watching, lurking, looking for friend or foe. Upon seeing her children show up, she smiles, watching Heda flutter about like a bird, and Ruan looking on, introducing himself to the small slip of a creature. She was little. The gray alpha was not sure that she had ever seen a horse so small—and she was a pony. And so, from her hiding place, the lichen pulls away from the trees and wraps around her, and she shrinks down, cherping and yapping away. Long prehensile tail, fingers and toes, and a fuzzy face—
--the marmoset skittered out of the bush, her bright beady eyes looking up as she jerkily shook her head from one creature to another. Grabbing and climbing up Ruan’s leg, the small grey monkey sat on his face, before she grabbed on, placed a distinct kiss between his eyes, and then stood up and walked on two hind legs, before jumping onto Smidgen’s back. She landed squarely on her poll, pulling on the girl’s ears and hair, before looking down and peering directly into her eyes.
“You are the smallest horse I have ever seen” it says, churping and yapping the way monkeys do. Heda flutters around, begging Ruan to let the small girl stay as if she were begging her father for a puppy. Ironically, she kind of was. Reagan the marmoset hops up onto Smidgey’s nose, and standing up and fluffing up her face, looks towards Ruan and Heda, her tongue flapping out of her tiny mouth. “If she wants to stay, I don’t see why not.
Chit chat, chitty chat chat.