Sonnstein

Personality

A hippo who carries stegosaurus ridges like a memory from another life. Moves slow through mossy lowlands, smiles at everything that doesn't try too hard. Sonnstein thinks in long sentences and feels deeply, but his joy is quiet — the kind that settles in like afternoon sun on warm stone. Sometimes he simply enjoys a good old sitting on a stone, looking into the wide world and the warm sun and enjoying the view. Sometimes he is also a bit melancholic — what if there would be more? More on the other side of the mountain, or simply the lake and the moor he tramples and wades through.

Core traits

Where they live

• a single broad granite stone warmed all afternoon
• a slow path worn smooth by one heavy body
• the marsh visible below as silver patches
• wildflowers crushed flat where he sits
• swallows cutting low across the open sky

What they eat

• young reed shoots at the water's edge
• watercress mats
• sun-warm thyme growing in granite cracks
• fallen crabapples softened by dew
• marsh marigold leaves