In this proposed story, the ringed moon arrives before the garden is ready. The two watching strawberries notice it first. The curled grub is still deciding whether to wake up.
The long-antenna beetle takes a slow route between the flower-eye planter and the toothy planter. It has no grand announcement. It simply asks the round-headed beetle to come outside, where even a quiet patch of ground can feel like a small new world.
The planters keep their original flowers, stalks and eyes together. The two strawberries remain separate drawings with separate asset identities. Their meeting here is draft fiction; it is not established character canon or Mattea’s personal biography.
Eight complete drawings were separated from one photographed flash sheet, preserving its native RGB and paper tones. The rest of that crowded sheet remains unreviewed. These small native images need better scans for larger print sizes; color, cutlines, supplier specs and physical samples are pending.
Compare the beetle’s four 3D prototypes
