“I always appreciate someone who’s willing to lend their eyes to a blind old fox.”
 
“You’re, uhh, welcome.”
 
“I would lend you my ear in exchange. But you have quite the ears of your own, and I’m sure you don’t need mine! Wah-hah-hah!”
 
“I’ve half a mind to just leave you here.”  
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character stuff
 
The rabbit is Demetra. She looks unassuming and plain, but she is in fact an educated scholar who has dedicated herself to studying the light-specks and finding a way to reinvigorate their fading glow. She does not have high hopes at this point, though.
 
The fox is Vesper. He’s a former thief and general troublemaker who was blinded as punishment for stealing light-specks. He’s not all there, but he’s chronically cheerful despite everything. Nothing like blind optimism, you see. Wah-hah-hah!