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A Midnight Canon
Momma Sel tells Little T a bedtime story:
Seline sat under an apple tree to catch her breath after a midnight jog. In an act of defiance against such a trespassing, the tree shrank back into its seed state within the earth. With the sound of a cricket violating her ears, Seline collapsed her shoulders and transformed into an owl.
Under her wing, she kept her favorite book about Seed, the squirrel spirit. With her reading glasses placed, Seline read aloud to the chill of the night: Seed was chased up an apple tree by a village inferior who sat waiting for Seed to come back down.
On a branch, Seed discovered a cricket with the double red marks on its back of an enlightened insect. The nameless bug rarely spoke but tonight he spoke:
Long ago and always, there was an inferior named Cron who was not so inferior. He was the grand keeper of time. One day, Cron sat by an apple tree to brainstorm up a story about that very tree. Then a very hard apple hit his head. With the keeper of time disoriented, time lost its direction.
Immediately, the nameless bug demonstrated his story. He shot away from Seed who was being unread by Seline. The owl-eyed Seline transformed into an inferior, sitting down under an apple tree, the story of which was being untold by Momma Sel to Little T who was now sleeping with the sillhoute branches brushing slightly against the pearl-white Momma Sel.
