The siblings were out foraging with their Totoma father one day - when they espied a Kimeti, struggling direly in a treacherously concealed patch of quicksand. With a quick nod at each other, they sprang into action, sister wading into the mire and brother throwing a vine to the sinking buck. With sister pushing and brother pulling, they managed to free the hapless Filament, and soon had sister back on solid ground as well.
Their proud father, overcome with emotion at witnessing the rescue, rushed over and unleashed an uncharacteristic torrent of words, "Well done - well done, my children! You," nodding at his girl, "pushed past all obstacles as you are wont to push this buck out of the sand, and you," the boy, "though I had feared your flighty nature might have kept you from valor, pulled through magnificently to pull him from danger!"
There was a moment of silence as they collectively realised that, for better or worse, he had named them.
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The Mantis buffed his emerald sleeves
and plucked a sprig of emerald leaves;
he fluffed his coat of jeweled wing,
and, dapper as the newborn spring,
he sallied forth for love.
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The flossy flow'r may sigh touch me,
but if the hoof, beguil'd, forgott' -
the fronds that fence the flow'r retreat
to cry reminder: "Touch me not -
once touched, this heart must fall aflame
to love's cruel sway, that is its lot;
I wish not love's devouring pain:
for pity's sake, please Touch-Me-Not."
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Once upon a fall's night gleaming, five were born to wicked scheming,
'Neath a distant eye, demeaning, of a bird who darkness wore:
The catch, the crack, the cats, the charmer - her tongue at once both claw and armour -
T'was she who wondered whether ever such a clutch had come before.
With glittered grin she pondered if again would come what had before: Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'
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