I K i n u I
"I miss them. I know it was only just a dream, but it was so real. The friends I had, the bonds I made. I miss them all terribly. I know I will never see them again, but deep in my heart, I just... I think maybe I will. Maybe if I wish it hard enough, the swamp will hear me and grant me time with them once again. Even if just a dream." He smeared the drawing of the strange constellation as he laid down. "Two of my dearest friends were a pair of totoma, brothers. Twins even. Why, even though I knew them for ages and ages, I could never tell them apart. They were always arguing and fighting. There was one time we were at a lake..." He stopped to think of how to explain that. "It's a large body of water surrounded by land. It's so deep you cannot see or touch the water. This lake took 2 days to walk fully around, and about a day to swim. Oh, swimming it was a disaster... If it wasn't for that nanny raven..." He realized Mist probably had no idea what he was talking about...
Web explained that the twins had been arguing again about the lake itself. They had only just discovered it, and since one could not see the other side of it, one said it was the ocean, but the other said it couldn't be because the water was not salty. They had made a bet that one could walk around the water and find his way back, the other would swim to the ends of the world. Web couldn't talk them out of this, of course and the twins had dove head long into their challenge. Of course, neither toma knew how to swim, and when the water was deep enough that he couldn't touch the water, the toma floundered and splashed about so much that the giant raven who looked after the boys swooped in and snatched the drowning toma and plopped him back on dry land and cawed at the pair in such a way that Web knew they were being scolded.