(Oh right, before it expires, please vote with your monthly tickets... Hurry and check whether you suddenly have a few extra monthly tickets on hand or something.)
A burst of commotion rose over the grasslands. A different kind of wind swept through the air, stirring a golden ball of fur on the prairie. The furball shifted twice, and several fluffy tails parted, revealing the slightly puzzled face of the fox demon girl, who had only been asleep for a little over ten minutes after lunch. She looked up at the sky just in time to see a streak of green light flash past sixteen or seventeen meters above the ground, leaving behind specks of pale green particles. Behind that light came a vast mass of flying figures like a dark cloud.
"Haaah... They've started again..." The fox demon girl sighed, took out two clips, folded down her big ears and clipped them in place, then covered her head with her tails and went back to sleep. That was the only way she could keep sleeping, because it was far too noisy in the sky.
Dense chirping echoed through the air, as if thousands of birds had gathered together. In fact... they really were thousands of "birds." Though they had human shapes, I simply couldn't distinguish these little things that ate leaves and grass seeds, dug rocks out of the soil, and liked sleeping in clumps of grass from actual birds.
Little Crow stood on a high slope nearby, flapping her arms and bouncing up and down in excitement as she loudly cheered for her daughters. Though she couldn't tell which Little Crow was which, that didn't stop her from giving the little ones a whole heap of constantly changing names that she herself couldn't remember. Half those names had been