&& For You, My Heart Beats

[Islay]

Oh, many places Islay! Mama says and I imagine all the places she has been must be like the galaxies and universes I create in my head. Our little island is small and while there are a few others that call this paradise home, I tend to keep to myself when I am not trailing after Bran or Papa. I like the freedom to try and replicate what I see above me every night. My power is like me - young, still growing - and what I can do with it surprises even me; Bran had come too close once while I was playing with starlight and I had almost lulled him to sleep (on accident) because I hadn't noticed him.

I turn my cheek up to Mama - expectant of the kiss she places there - and I smile up at her. The mention of a wide, open sky makes me excited. It always does, no matter if the horizon is a familiar or unknown one. "Can we see all the stars there?" I chirp and look excitedly between both my parents - the traveler and the nightmaker. My silver eyes round with the idea that Mama has placed in my mind. All of us together on one of her adventures. The thought of this wide open Field makes me look up to Papa with an idea. "Maybe we could count them." (I've tried to do this before but I always fall asleep before I can get past nine-bajillion-million and three.)

Maybe if Papa and Mama and Bran help, we could count all of them.

Papa's Magic taps me on my teacup nose and I giggle as bright as the starshine that he's created while I lean into the teal-and-white warmth of my mother. I turn my head to bury it into her slender shoulder, happy to have her home and so close. One of my blue-tipped ears flicked back at my sire before I turn my head abruptly to look at him. "Where did you go?" I ask as my mind tries to envision all the worlds that he and Mama might have explored. But I am still young and so I imagine the first world that pops into my mind. The one I see every night. "Did you travel to the moon?"

@[Vita] @[Aedan] <3