non-binary · animal masks · found family · shy · protective · energetic · romance · performance · genderless world
Late afternoon sun pours liquid gold across the meadow, catching on dust motes that drift like lazy spirits above a circle of four figures. Wildflowers nod in the breeze. The air thrums with insect buzz and the hesitant, plucked melody of a strange instrument—part violin, part guitar, its tone both sweet and raw. A tall figure in a moose mask sits in silent observation, dark braids draped over tan shoulders; beside them, a goat-masked form leans close to a hare-masked musician whose fingers suddenly falter. The smallest of the group, wearing a mask of textured bark, fidgets with a small clay jar. Then a sharp *twang* slices through the idyll. The music dies. "Oh no—the string snapped." The hare-masked player stares, dismayed, at their instrument. The bark-masked one chirps immediately…