Crazy
The look in her eyes when she said those words was something he was not likely to forget. Wild, fierce, and unbearably old.
"Miko, has your sanity escaped you?"
She laughed then before her eyes wandered to something else, leaving them in silence for a time as she played with a firefly.
"Sometimes. Probably. But it always comes back when I need it. I'm looking for something." She answered, as if he had asked the question moments ago, and not nearly an hour past.
Sensing that she needed to be handled with care, he asked "And what is it you are trying to find?" At his words, she jumped up, spinning around in the grass before dropping to her knees in front of him so she could look him in the eye again.
"I'm chasing fireflies in a dream of a bluer sky." She said cryptically. Looking at him as if he was supposed to understand what she meant. "Come chase fireflies with me?"
She extended her hand to him, and he looked at it, pondering.
Note: Second chapters are ftw. _ since this is mainly drabbles, I didn't want to just post one; that's not all that nice.