#r posts

new patch i designed and made, inspired by

Firefight, Ch. 25, by @remedyturtles / @remrose on ao3.

"The rumble-roll of wheels on gravel. Donnie reluctantly looked out the window and saw huge sprawling sycamore trees, swaying green grass, and a moderate overcast sky. It didn’t feel like anything in particular to see, churning something unfamiliar and uncertain.

Donnie said, somehow, around the sheer cotton his mouth had become, “Did you know there are sycamore trees alive today that are more than three hundred years old?”

Leo’s shoulders relaxed and he grabbed the hand that Donnie still had pressing against his mouth, pulling it away with a squeeze. “Well, I do now, Dontron.”

“Maybe Dad planted them.” Mikey chimed in from the front, all sly innocent littlest energy.

“Excuse me, I am right here.” Splinter said, delightfully mixed with gruff and amused.

Donnie kept his gaze on the enormous trees with their impossibly large trunks, and thought,