New Beginnings - Part 1: A Walk
Believing himself to be in solitude among the happily chittering cicadas, it startled him ever so slightly when he heard the sudden playful shouts and splashings of at least one fur in the river.
Abyss Eternal, Book 1: Sundering by Barta
The incessant ringing of a cicada assailed my ears and they laid back flush against my skull, my attention set upon the small piece of translucent glass that adorned my desk.
Thrown Back: Chapter 3
Some were familiar, the chirping of a cricket or the drone of a cicada, but some were entirely new to him.
Mistletoe
To me christmas means the sweltering heat of an australian summer, crickets and cicadas chirpping while sausages, chops and steaks sizzle on the barbeque.
[Romance Galore!] Apple Wine in Autumn
Davies commented before pausing to listen to a string of cicadas play through the air. he smiled as they played on while relishing the cooling breeze that just then had begun to hum over his nose.
Between Rogues Chapter 1: The Heist
Polite applause rose through the humid night air, for a moment nearly masking the hum of cicadas from beyond the open verandas and balconies that the dance floor opened onto.
Boundaries, Part Three
The smell of hay and the sound of chirping cicadas would accompany their forbidden encounters. here he was once more in a forbidden encounter, exposing the young wolf to a world he probably had not even ever suspected existed.
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 17
As afternoon turned to evening, as the whistling and chittering of crickets joined the ever-present sounds of cicadas, the two - wolf and lynx, sulla and lannon, hunter and _something_- sat paw in paw, head on shoulder, looking out over the ghostly shadows
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 13
Up here in the northern woods, caught on the line between spring and summer where the air tasted of rain and the cicadas served to awaken him every morning, there was no chill - save for the one when sulla's fur, thicker and coarser than the lynx's
Hospitality pt.2
November 12th, the 825th year of celestia's rule there is a terrible noise outside like angry cicadas. it is constant and loud. papa left me here this morning to search for the zebress. he believes that she can save us.
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 10
A cicada's empty husk, no longer bearing the sweet life and music it used to carry. the wolf, the hunter, remained beside him, still and quiet, lips parted, throat still bearing the single hairline scar.
Death's Blood Ch. Fourteen: Demons' Blight
(i listened to the cub continue, "so, the cicada was still there, on the tree trunk and i seemed to be the only one noticing. my curiosity remained..." he continued with enthusiasm despite the sense of vulgarity.