even though (announcement) the half moon's coming up

Crystal squealed as she fell from what she assumed was Regalstar's back. At the last second before her tiny body struck the ground, she wrapped her legs around the queen's leg, dangling just above the ground. But to Crystal's wild imagination, it was like she was dangling over a canyon, and one wrong move could end her short life. She gasped and pulled herself back up to her mother's back, all the while careful not to hurt her. When she was secured, she let out a sigh of relief. To her parents, she mewed, "did you see that?! I almost died! I was this close," she held her paws a sliver apart, "to plummeting to my doom!" Her voice deepened ominously at the words 'my doom.'