IT'S VERBATIM ☆ constellations

[wormwood.]

It seemed as though Wormwood wasn't going to have his nice peaceful alone time for very long, but he found that he didn't mind that much. He always enjoyed the company of others, and although he had been pretty thoroughly embarrassed after his first encounter with Indie, he found that she had made a fairly decent first impression on him, making him enjoy her company. In addition to that, he had pretty much always enjoyed Torren's company, ever since the young prince had joined and Worm had felt a sort of kinship towards him, since the boy reminded him so thoroughly of himself when he was young. Hell, Torren had even been part of the reason that Worm had decided to come out and stargaze to keep himself awake, so he found a small smile gracing his face as he slowly sat up, carefully folding his wings against his back before he stretched out, his jaws opening wide and his claws slipping put for a moment before disappearing back within his paws. He almost yawned, but he quickly held it back, not wanting to worry Indie nor Torren with thoughts about his many sleepless nights as of late. That would ruin the fun, and probably lead to more unpleasant questions that Worm wasn't quite ready to answer yet, or simply couldn't answer, due to a lack of his own answers to his internal questions.

Once he was upright and less prone to just collapsing in exhaustion, Wormwood decided to address Indie first, since she had been the first one to approach him. Chuckling a little at her words, he rumbled as his tail flicked from side to side, the little tuft at the top disturbing the grass behind him, "It is me. Figured I would just go out for a bit of late night stargazing. Everything is nice and bright right now... and I know most of them, yes. The stars were one of the first things I went and studied when I was searching for things to read in order to hone my abilities. I always found them so pretty, but I never knew what they were, so first I found out about them scientifically, and then I found out about all of the constellations." The thought of a younger him, sitting in the lands between the pride and Tanglewood, reading his books in his own little closed off area, brought a little smile to his face. Those had always been... interesting days. His attention was then pulled over to Torren, who had padded over and looked very fascinated with what Worm was doing. The lion blinked over at the young prince for a moment before hearing his comment, his face rising into a smile and his wings raising up a bit in happiness as he spoke, "Ah, I know some of the stories behind the constellations. Not all of them, though. I've still got a few more to read about at some point... I'm glad to hear that you've been reading the books I gave you, though. I've found all of the aspects of the stars very fascinating so far... what do you think?"

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