Mossy Lantern Hollow
Tobin
“A plum-sized dark beetle with a polished shell and small golden freckles across his back, about 4 cm long.”
He is an older beetle about the size of a plum, slow and sturdy, with a calm way of moving through the hollow. He likes things to stay orderly and predictable, and he can be very patient with younger creatures.
2 stories feature Tobin
Where you've met them
The Wrong-Colored Glow
At dusk, the lantern mushrooms all glow the wrong colors at once—blue on the paths, gold in the tree hollows, and pink under the roots—so every familiar shortcut begins to lead somewhere surprising. The forest feels cheerful and strange, as if it has remembered a secret game no one knows the rules for.
The Singing Bell Tree
Deep in the hollow, the oldest tree begins to ring like a bell every time the wind passes through it, and each note wakes a different part of the forest—one ring makes flowers pop open, another scatters acorns, and another sends lantern bugs swirling into the air. The bell-tree is beautiful, but its sudden music is stirring the whole woods into a noisy, uncertain dance.