14:00 · the hot part
Three of them go and sit in the blossom where it is quiet, because the yard has been loud since sunrise. Homey, who has been tight-chested since the morning, says out loud that everything being different is the difficult part. Hushy listens, and then says one thing back. Mopsy says almost nothing and stays the whole time. They walk back at a quarter to four and miss the lanterns being moved.
3 fluffs tell this minute. None of them saw the same one.
At two o'clock I went out, and only as far as the Candyfloss Garden, with Mopsy and Hushy, because the blossom is quiet and nobody there wanted anything from me.
I said the thing out loud down there, sitting in the pink. That it was not the work. That it was everything being different.
"You don't have to want the loud bit," said Hushy. "You're allowed to want the doorway."
Mopsy said almost nothing for two hours and stayed the entire time.
So at two o'clock the three of us went to the Candyfloss Garden — me and Mopsy and Homey — and sat in the blossom, because the yard had been loud since before sunrise and there is only so much of that a fluff can hold.
It is very quiet down there. The blossom comes off the trees if you breathe at it.
Homey had been tight in the chest since the morning and said so, eventually, sitting down: that it was not the work, it was that everything was different. The path all changed. The whole land out of its usual shape. Fifty-five fluffs about to be in one house until goodness knows when.
I listened. That part is easy.
Then at two the three of us went down to the Candyfloss Garden — me and Hushy and Homey — because the yard had been loud since before sunrise.
Homey had been tight in the chest since morning and said so, eventually, and it was not about the work. It was that everything was different. The path all changed, the land out of its usual shape, fifty-five fluffs about to be in one house until goodness knows when.
Hushy said the good thing. You don't have to want the loud bit. You're allowed to want the doorway.
I said almost nothing for two hours and stayed the entire time.
