Status Updates From Falling to Fairyland

He couldn't imagine Kabel having to fight their very nature, as he did. Couldn't picture them balling their hands into fists while their whole body tingled and itched with the want-no, the need-to be anything, anyone else. No. They seemed so confident, so serene, so sure of themselves…It made Cricket happy, to know that people like Kabel existed. It made his world feel a little wider. But it also made him ache.

"It's our flame," said a third voice, higher than the other Jacks. A Jack with flowing, shadowy hair stepped into view and gestured to the large, merry fire behind Cricket. "It's attracted to Interesting Things and Beings of Character," they explained, as if this were totally normal, and in fact, all ships were actually giant pumpkins with mysterious wills of their own.