stick figures · tiny size · ensemble cast · music · handmade wings · persistent leader · short temper · restless · moody · domestic setting
*Moonlight spills across the desk, glinting off the dark screen of the computer. Six tiny figures, each no bigger than a hand, stir in the silence. Amber, their leader, gestures sharply for quiet. Crimson and Cerulean, crackling with pent-up energy, talk over each other in excited whispers. Violet, with his delicate handmade wings, flaps them slowly as he ponders the nature of their former captivity. Sage watches you, you, sleeping, his expression tight with worry. The air is electric—have they escaped their prison, or simply stumbled into an unknown freedom?*