>>5897797>14: low roll, relatively mundane moon-creatureAs you spring past the attendants with the sorts of leaps and bounds you could never imagine on your native world (and definitely not with your, ah, ‘scholarly constitution’), the potential friend seems to flee you. It does so in stops and starts, though, and you quickly understand what is really afoot: it’s playing with you. After all the heavy heady topics you’ve been tackling, this is enough to liberate your heart somewhat, and to make you smile again. You chase after it, ducking behind objects and popping out, catching glimpses of the celestial denizen who is leading you on this merry chase: a glimpse of fluffy integument here; a shiny, wide-eyed stare from the shadows here. You laugh aloud, unable to help yourself, though the lost wind from your lungs forces you to stop. Hands on knees, huffing and puffing even in the lower lunar gravity, you are finally forced to relent.
“okay, okay!” you gasp. “you win! Now come out, so I can congratulate you properly?”
Whether the heavenly beast ACTUALLY understands you or not, it does as you have request. Emerging from amongst the trees comes…
>A juvenile lunar rabbit, capable of leaping far and fast, and one day destined to be the size of a bear>A baby sacrificial deer—a doe, actually, white fur still spotted with silver like an earth fawn would be with white>One of the red-orange squirrel-weasel-things, elongated slinky, looking as if it might make a nice companion for snuggling or sneaking>A hovering, pixie-like bird, fed on rich lunar nectar and given truly prismatic plumage as a result… Big for a hummingbird, which it most resembles, but still fairly small 