As Etoille and Cyn wander through the wood sharing their stories and dreams for the day, they hear shrieks and giggle up ahead and off the path… As they pick up their speed they can hear childish voices raised in terror, “No! No! Don’t catch us.”
We looked at each other in fear and ran up ahead to see if we could save the voices we heard. As we rounded the bend and saw the open clearing, a dark black dragon filled our vision, swooping low and deep towards the ground. Up ahead of him were 5 baby bunnies, running in terror away from him as the dragon came in even lower and grabbed them each with his claws.
As I gathered my magic to blast the dragon with a freeze spell, Cyn yells in my head. “NO! If you do that, he will fall to the ground and squash them. We need to think of something else. I will distract him and you put a float spell on the bunnies.”
As I gather my energy once again, this time to make them as light as the cloud, the dragon swirls around the clearing, skimming over the trees and the shrieks of the bunnies can be heard throughout the woods. I start the words forming in my head when the dragon swoops low once again towards the clearing and gently lets each bunny drop daintily upon the ground.
All of a sudden the giggles of the bunnies were filling the clearing and as they ran in joy away from the dragon, you could hear their voices float back upon the wind… “Again! Again! Catch us again. We want to fly into the clouds this time and cool off.”
The dragon lazily did a loop da loop through the sky and shot a look towards Cyn and me. His voice echoed in my head, “come play with us.” I looked longingly at the bunnies playing in the tall grass, working out their strategy with glee and I wanted to run and play with them.
“I want to, but I am too big to play with the bunnies.” I whispered back through the path he left in my head to talk to him.
“Then I will just have to make you into a kitten.” As the words whispered through my head I felt myself change until I was low to the ground. As I linked with Cyn to see myself through his eyes, I saw a cream colored kitten with Aqua colored eyes and a star in the middle of her forehead.
I felt a joy rush through me. Tired of having to be the perfect princess, always making the right choices and decisions, always speaking with perfect clarity so that everyone around me would trust me all of a sudden I knew what it would be like to just be small and give up and play for a day.
As I looked up at Cyn he smiled slowly at me, “It is okay to play for awhile as long as you remember it is for play and it isn’t who you are.”
I ran towards the bunnies in the grass and we started to whisper out our strategy of how we were going to evade the dragon before we let him pick us up so we could fly through the clouds and let our laughter shower the land with joy.
