I absolutely adore this. ADORE. The little details are fantastic, they are so perfectly in character, I absolutely love that Wensleydale is doing entomology! And this:

he's smiling like he's up to his waist in the old mill pond and covered in duckweed.

The most perfect simile for them ever, it's so ridiculously delightful how that means such a different set of emotions for Them than, you know, normal people. :D

Thank you so very much for this.