“It’s kinda weird? Like… It’s summer but the trees are starting to think it’s not.” Mono commented, darting to snag one of the leaves that had dropped from a tree. The leaf was a neat mixture of green and flecks of yellow as it started to change colour.

… The kid still wrinkled his nose at the ones with shots of red in them, he did not like those ones. Red was still not a colour he liked, and he wasn’t entirely sure how to answer why if he was ever asked.

“There weren’t really trees like these in the Pale City… But before the other place got scary, the dry and crackly ones were kinda fun to run through if there wasn’t anything scary around.” Forests and crunchy leaves were less fun when you had to be sneaky. But he hurried back to Ignis’ side, still holding the leaf up to look at. “What’re you doing out here, Mister Ignis? Are you going somewhere?”