The Snugglekins Series — Character Spotlight
Skye comes back to her tree the way she always comes back after — quietly, and without anyone seeing.
Skye Sugar Glider lives in the high places. She comes out at dusk, when the social world is settling into evening and the requirements of the day are finally releasing their grip. She moves through Cozy Hollow at the edges, present but not announced, watching with the patient sustained attention she gives to everything she finds worth watching.
She finds almost everything worth watching.
Skye perceives things. Not just the obvious things — the mood in a room, the thing someone isn’t saying, the specific quality of someone’s silence and what it means. She has always been able to do this. For a long time, other people found it useful. They would come to her for the seeing. For what she could perceive and offer and help them understand.
What they wanted, she eventually understood, was not her. It was what she could do.
So Skye made herself very difficult to read. She watches. She understands. She gives what is needed when it is needed. And then she goes somewhere alone and puts the weight down.
She has gotten very good at doing that part alone.
Skye is a soft grey and cream sugar glider with large dark reflective eyes that miss nothing. She has rose-pink inner ears and blush markings. Her gliding membrane opens like wings when she moves between the high branches. She carries a small lantern on the nights when the village needs her.
Her story is called Skye Sugar Glider and the In-Between.
It is about a branch at dusk and a conversation between two people who have both made themselves unreadable, in different ways, for the same reason. About what it feels like to be seen accurately by someone with no intention of using the knowing.
It felt like being held. Not like being used.
The difference was everything.
The Snugglekins Series — coming soon from Lit Wick Press.
Safe. Loved. Heard. Enough.
