“Blehg… This is getting nowhere.” Robin sighed, flopping back onto David’s bed. Beside him, David fidgeted with his mechanical pencil. It was one of those cutesy ones with a cartoonish little eraser that was too cute to ever use, pretty much defeating the purpose of even having an eraser. He had a lot of stuff like that in his room: cutesy junk that he rarely actually brought to school, but had more for the sake of having and admi

    
David plopped down on the edge of the dock with a sigh, bare feet swinging over the sides and splashing into the cool water below. The sun beat down on the shore, threatening to melt the ice cream pop hanging from his mouth. Even with the cool breeze coming in from the ocean, the pier was rather quiet for this time in the afternoon, leaving David to his own devices. His shift at the lab had ended a while ago, so he had the rest of the day to himself. He w

    
The sun was low in the sky, clouds darkening to a lovely shade of purple as the horizon began to tint orange and pink. Sunset. The end of the day for most humans, but for the creatures of the forest that surrounded the human settlement, it was only the start of their morning routines. David stretched himself out, mottled green wings fluttering as he rose from his nest. It was a bit early in the evening for a moth to be getting up, but he hadn’t had