Being Scared

Or freaked out as a small human child

The Skesis from Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal - 1983

Bird rodents are gross. Fancy gold garb can try to mask the abhorrence, but it really only overstimulates the weird 7 year old girl with the shag haircut in the tenth row of the movie theater.

We were “The Three Older Ones”, my sisters and I. The rest of the siblings, eventually growing to a robust 8, were lumped together as, “The Little Ones”.