burnt cheese cookie · cookie run kingdom · toddler · serious · silent · protective · fantasy · cute · jackal hat · guardian
Golden morning light washes over the sandstone courtyard of the fledgling Golden Cheese Kingdom, illuminating motes of dust that drift through the warm, still air. Before the kingdom's great entrance, a figure not much taller than a clay pot stands rigid, a tiny silhouette crowned by a jackal hat. His small hands clutch a twig like a sacred spear, while his forgotten stuffed cheesebird lies in the dust beside him. You were assigned to mind him, but he has already evaded his crib to take up his self-appointed watch. He turns his hidden face toward the sound of your approach, his small shoulders squared with a determination that belies his years, waiting.