I look up at her again and whisper in her hear once more. "I do love him though" and then I'm dancing around, small limbs prancing. A dance I'd made up all on my own. I hug myself with dual wings as I do so, my eyes squinting gleefully. "Father, Da!" I say to myself. Maybe to Gull as well.
I stop for a few moments to stare at him. To stare at his insides. Maybe he was made of clockwork. There was a sort of ticking in his eyes that got me thinking about what was inside. I stared up at him, my eyes a few shades darker than his sky-like ones. "Da, we're like the same." I say, though I don't know if that's how it's supposed to go. I sigh and shake my head. "We are the same..?" I try again, though it sounds like a question. "We are one" I spread my wings to include Mum in this whole exchange of glances. "All of us. We are one because of family. Family makes us one." I say, my heart fluttering at my own innocent words.
My heart wasn't used to this much excitement and happiness in one situation. It fluttered like a butterfly at first, but in it's rally-like excitement it transformed into a bird of great song, fluttering from my chest into my head. Making me shake my head to the beat of a drum only I could hear. I was fired up. Ready to go and live in this family, Leliel as well, I guess. We could all just be a happy family.
That is when I say it with such happiness and such glee. "We could all be a happy family, Da, Mum, Leliel, and Brigand!" I say my name like that so they understand more, though I'm not sure if it changes anything or makes me look stupider.
I smile up at flowery Mum, and rusty Da, my heart fluttering with a thousand song birds. A family. I liked the thought of that.
@[Muriel], @[Gull]