Candle !
candle drabble: our characters spending time together by light.
folk’s daddy joe’s are fancy; from timeto time adah appreciates some fancy.
inclined to the decorative but rarelyfunctional, her brother’s ensnared with frills‘n knick-knacks‘nmechanical ting-a-lings: they bring a wild, boyish shine to his eyes, and in these moments he’s a kid with a mustache.
tonight l'il sis snatched his kickswhen he went down to the river for a bath, drenched the leather inpiss o’ hers she’d previously collected.
boots are smoother now, adah thinks, comfortably stretching her toes.
carp checks her backpack, althoughshe ain’t worried: any valuables have already been secured outside ofcamp.