Flying Free
Grasshoppers jumped away from him, and crickets chirped everywhere. meadowlarks sang their beautiful song, and other small birds flew about. there seemed something wrong though, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Chapter Seven
Fearing it to be another dryad clearing, she paused and tilted her ears forward, listening for the faintest hint of music, but all she could hear was the faint chirping of crickets.
Torpedo Run Chapter 25
Where she was long and graceful, like a slender if terrible and bladed cricket, they were squat scarab beetle or roach-like creatures, ugly and horrifying and covered in claws and spines.
Willem and Rolf - The Revolt at Castle Minas
All around came the soft sounds of crickets chirping, the wind easing through the trees and grass. water softly splashed against the beach. laterns were adorned all along the water, mildly illuminating the stonework and casting shadows around.
Dragonmark
It was a seemingly normal day in the backwoods of north carolina, the birds were singing, the crickets were chirping, and the sunset was beautiful.
A Long, Dark Road (Part 9)
The beauty of power unconstrained, of arrogance born of certainty and solidity; the knowledge that your greatest enemies pose no more threat to you than a cricket before an avalanche.
Black Magic - Chapter Three: Friends Of The Family
crickets chirped, birds sang, and the sounds of overly ripe fruit falling to the ground could be heard in every direction.
Avarin Falls, Chapter 1
The city was strangely silent this evening; even the crickets, usually at their symphonic peak this time of the year, had set aside their melodious instruments. up at the temple braziers were being lit, from wall to wall.
Chapter 20: The Price Love Pays
They sat in silence for a long time as the sun sank away outside, as darkness crept across the sky and the twitter of the birds faded to the chirrup of crickets.
Raspberry Line Chapter 5 - Get To Know: Arkethius Rachaun
Not even the crickets chirped. "ket, would you please tell the class what an egyptologist is?" he shrugged, and spoke like it was a dumb question; "an egyptologist is someone who studies egypt, like a biologist is someone who studies biology."
Revenge
There was an almost literal mountain of weapons in there, from sigs to p90s to rpgs to snipers, and chloe even thought she saw a 'noisy cricket' in there. "ok guys and gals, grab a gun," marty said.
Nobody's Servant, Part 14 - Living Situation
Part-forest, weaving itself together on suspended rails of tram network all suspended above a surprisingly-rustic cobblestone sprawl from which boxy complexes and step pyramids alike rise among the streetlamps and their incandescent glow, through which a cricket