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« Thread Started on Aug 5, 2008, 5:41am » | |
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And that was when even Joey lost count of how many spoonfuls of sugar he had put into his tea. So far, in front of him sat a plate with two large sliced of pizza. “The Works”, naturally. He was a passionate carnivore at heart and a modern day barbarian.
Joey’s eyes had lit up at the plate as it was served to him by a waitress. He had already taken the tea pot and poured some of the water into his cup. After the water was poured the sugar was added… and was still being added.
There was never a trouble so great or grave that could not be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. He remembered his mother telling him what seemed like a life time ago. But there was something missing...
Joey studied the cup, pondering over what could be missing before he smiled and picked up one of the tea bags. Using his spoon he wet the bag, placed the bag on his spoon and wrapped the string of the bag around and around until a few drops of the juice from the tea leaves dripped into the cup. He then laid the bag down then, stirred his hot sugar with tea flavoring and then took a sip. He hummed in delight.
“Perfect!” He exclaimed.
As he sat there, enjoying the meal in front of him, he slouched slightly in the chair and relaxed as he looked around the place all of the different people. None of them really looked quite like him. Well why would they?
As he thought about it, he reached up and ran his hand over his chin. Damn it! He hadn’t shaved this morning - today, of all days. Well... at least he had tied his dreadies back out of his eyes with a bandana.
He felt his gaze travel down to the floor before travelling casually upwards from his black skate shoes, along one of his long denim pant leg’s, noting the slight tears here and there before looking down at his old black sabbath shirt. Well it was his day off? Sunday. The one day that you could really relax.
He reached over to take another drink of his tea and then reached for the pizza before he yelped in surprise as he left the floor disappear from under his feet very suddenly. He stretched his arms out and tried to grab onto something but his hands where unable to grasp anything.
He felt himself falling and shut his eyes tightly as he felt the air change from the usually smoggy Brooklyn air, to something a little more sweeter. This moment was short lived however as he felt his face whip what felt like small branches and leaves. He felt blood pour from his nose, and saw little specks of it splatter, and fly past his face before he heard what sounded like a whole tree being torn from the ground. The then felt a final and very loud “thud” as the wind was knocked from his lungs and he opened his eyes, looking around he saw that there where trees surrounding him.
Weak and stunned, Joey rose to his hands and knee’s, taking in greedy gulp fulls of air as he waited for his head to stop spinning. After about a minute, he started to creep very slowly forwards, still on his hands and knee’s before he rose to his feet, barely standing as he leant heavily against the trunk of a tree.
He felt surprisingly fairly numb as he walked, and his head was still spinning. His mind was in a state of shock as the trees started to thin out and he squinted to see water ahead of him.
Trying to fight off the nausea and blood in his eyes, he staggered slightly as he made it to the clearing, and slouched slightly before falling to the ground, senseless. He blinked a few times, and looked down at the water a mere arm-length away from him. He reached out to try and cup some in his hand before falling onto his back, and watched white lights dance in front of him. The shock too great for him to withstand much longer, he closed his eyes.
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« Reply #1 on Aug 17, 2008, 9:01am » | |
It was late past one in the morning and everyone had long gone home to their families and bed but I was still here down in the lab pouring over the information in front of me, fingerprints on the screen and evidence scattered all around the work bench. Nothing about this murder was normal, it almost seemed like our Jane Doe who we found out today was named DJ had disappeared off the face of the earth.
The stories they had been given from people in the park where she had disappeared was that they had seen the women sleeping under a tree in the early hours of the morning some had seen her sitting and reading on a bench. But suddenly she was gone no one had seen someone take her they had described it as her vanishing into thin air. But I knew that this was so not possible and it was my job to find the sicko who had taken Miss DJ.
A small book was among the things found at the crime scene, it was an odd book entitled “The Story of Black Thorn”. As of yet the investigative team hadn’t opened it and it was as my eyes were slowly closing from exhaustion and staring at the screen that my eyes fell on the book.
As I picked it up my white gloved hands turned it over and I scanned the back page there didn’t seem to be anything odd about the book it was just one of those random story’s. Slowly I opened it and began to read, it was the oddest story I had ever read and I read a lot.
I guess it was my stress relief I saw a lot of gruesome things being a forensic scientist, in a way I liked to read those books about murder and mystery. They allowed me to open my mind to the possibilities out there and it usually helped me to see the ways of the people we hunted, the scum of the earth.
“Still here Abbs?”
A male voice spoke behind me and I spun around on the chair fast nearly unseating myself, I breathed a little easier seeing the tall man with graying hair that stood in the doorway with a long brown coat across his shoulders.
“You scared me James how many times have I told you not to skulk around late at night?”
I said crossing my arms under my ample breasts and trying to look stern. James was our boss he lead the investigations and everyone was scared of him except for me, no one else ever saw his softer side he was like a father to me.
“I wasn’t Skulking Abby I was watching”
He said with a smile and I shook my head at him he thought he was so smart I thought to myself as he wandered over, and looked at the work I had been doing.
“You know, you need to rest too Abbs the case can wait till morning”
“But it is morning”
I retorted back with a grin tapping the clock technically it was it was half one now and defiantly classed as morning. James shook his head and walked back to the door he knew he wouldn’t win he never did I had nothing else my work was my only friend and James of course but other then that I was alone.
“Get some sleep”
He called out as the door shut behind him, I shook my head and returned to the book, I realized as I read those four words that something was wrong. The room was spinning all around me and I was feeling sick all of a sudden. As if from far away I heard the thump of the book striking the floor and the next minute I was thrown forward. I let out a scream of surprise and waited to hit the cold floor of the lab but I never did.
Instead I felt my body connect with soft earth, I could feel grass under my face and lifted my head to look around this was insane. I had obviously fallen asleep in the lab I told myself and this was just a very random dream, but somehow I didn’t quite even believe myself.
Slowly I lifted my head and looked around I seemed to be in the bush or something and I can tell you that was the last thing I expected. I stumbled to my feet and brushed the dirt from my black clothing and hair before taking a proper look around.
In the distance I could hear running water so that’s where I started walking is being a forensic scientist had taught me anything it was the multiple ways people could die out in the bush. Find a source of water and follow it was my best bet.
As I drew nearer to the water I saw a clearing and in the middle off it feet from the water someone was either passed out or dead. I edged forward cautiously and saw that it was a male and he was breathing it was shallow but he was breathing.
“Trust a male not to know how to survive with water inches away.”
I said to myself and walked over to a tree with broad leaves forming it into a cup I scooped some water and threw it on the mans face and waited
“Rise and Shine”
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« Reply #2 on Aug 17, 2008, 10:13am » | |
Joey coughed and eyes fluttered open as water entered his nostrils involuntarily. He groaned as he squinted up into the sunlight, his vision blurry; he realised he had water in his eyes and lifted a hand to wipe them. Pulling his hand back he noticed a thin tendril of thin blood running down his palm before he turned his head to the side for a moment before letting it rest as it was, squeezing his eyes shut for a moment before opening them again. This time spying the young woman towering over him, shielding the sun from his face.
“You’re a funny lookin’ angel.” He spoke hoarsely, with his typical Brooklyn accent. He made no effort to get to sit up as he spoke, but looked at her for a moment. She wasn’t unattractive, but certainly different to the sort of people he was used to seeing in the city. She had a thin face, with jet black hair tied into two pigtails, with a small fringe and a slightly squared jaw and small chin. Her nose was petite, her full lips where a dark shade of red and her eyes large and hazel. They certainly stood out underneath the dark eye make up she wore.
He lifted his head at first to look around before hissing slightly as a sharp pain stabbed at the back of his head and nose. He could only imagine what he looked like right now. A lucid light suddenly turned on in his head as he remembered sitting eating his lunch, then the fall, those bastard branches slapping him and then stumbling around towards this clearing. He realised that it was perhaps mid afternoon now. How long was he out?
“Where are we? Whaddam I doin’ here?” he then asked, lifting himself so that he sat up, resting on his elbows.
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« Reply #3 on Aug 18, 2008, 8:09am » | |
Walking back to the body of water I let him wake up in peace as I scooped up some more water in the cup before returning back to where he now lay propped up on an elbow he looked like he had seen better days I thought to myself. Nothing though compared to what I had seen throughout my days as a forensic scientist.
I handed him the cup made from the leaf and folded another taking some water for myself before I looked around and contemplated my answer I didn’t talk to much really unless it was about a case and I was excited about a breakthrough I had made. It seemed I defiantly wasn’t going to be making any breakthroughs on the DJ case tonight. I was either dreaming or I was, well I had no idea what I was if I wasn’t dreaming.
“Your guess is as good as mine right now”
I said simply with a shrug, assessing the area I noted the way the water was running and figured that that was the best bet, towns usually lay down from hills rather then on top of them. I wasn’t really one that was all that worried about others and I couldn’t be bothered waiting for this other guy so I simply started walking following the flow of the river.
Navigating my way around the trees and shrubs and especially avoiding the prickle bushes that I noticed, I had no intention of having to stop to pick prickles out of my skin. The sooner I got out of this bush the better for me and that was all that was on my mind I had nearly already forgotten about the other guy.
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« Reply #4 on Aug 20, 2008, 8:36am » | |
Joey blinked as he watched the girl get up and start to leave very suddenly. She seamed pretty self assured.
“Hey! Wait up would ya?” he said, scrambling to his feet he jogged towards her. He watched her as she weaved through the trees and around the bushes yet he still managed to stumble over the shrubs and through the prickly bushes. He cursed and ‘tsked’ each time he felt one of the little thorns prick him. As he stumbled through another bus he noticed that one of his legs started to itch. “I got no idea what that thing was but I’m pretty sure it has the word ‘poison’ in it.” he muttered before he caught up to the young woman.
“Alright, don’ worry, I managed tah catch up.” He announced proudly as he stepped beside her. He made a half way grin as he looked at her, and realised she was wearing some sort of lab-coat.
The stream outlet that they where following went on a downhill slant, making it easier to walk. He could spot the odd fish here and there and it made him feel a little better knowing that at least there was food and water near by if needed. Then again - He didn’t know anything about catching fish, or removing bones from them. He was a decent cook, a good dancer. But he wasn’t a hunter.
Looking at the surroundings, he realised that the terrain didn’t exactly look that inviting either. What was this chick looking for anyway? It didn’t look like there was a town for kilometers - Maybe there wasn’t even a town? Eventually the stream would stop and they would run out of water wouldn't they? What if they’d have to walk for days....weeks and never get to a town? What if there wasn’t one at all? Wait...he already asked himself that.
He knew that he was working himself into a mild desperation again. And started to count down from five. 5...4...3...2...1. Then popping several of the vertebrae in his neck as he walked, Joey then spoke again. “The names Joey by the way. Don’t suppose you got one do ya?”
Or should I call you Tall-Dark-Scary-Silent-Lady-With Lab Coat? He thought.
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« Reply #5 on Aug 25, 2008, 7:32pm » | |
The bush around me was pretty thick and I didn’t really know when it was going to thin out or if there was a town at the end of this but it was the best idea I had. Besides we had walked through thicker bush then this before to get to a crime scene and this was nothing compared to the time we ran into the killer at that one in the middle of the desert.
I could hear the foul crashing around behind me trying to catch up making a horrible racket and by the sounds of it tripping over and crashing through everything he could. I shook my head but didn’t turn around or slow my pace if he was that desperate to walk with me he could catch up himself.
He finally did and made so random statement about it that I didn’t pay much attention too I was busy navigating my way around the hole of what I knew belonged to a snake and I had no intention of disturbing it.
About the same time he was introducing himself and seemed not be paying attention so not wanting to have to carry him as he complained about being bitten I pointed at the hole.
“Watch the snake’s hole”
I said and kept walking a little further now from the river since sidestepping the snake’s home but I was soon traveling beside it again. From the looks of the flora around us I guessed we were probably somewhere in Australia though how we got here was completely beyond me.
As I walked around a bend in the river I saw that we were at the top of a small cliff and the river ran off the top into a lake at the bottom. It was a spectacular view and through the tree’s I could see a town and I smiled to myself. Once again the great Abbs is right I thought to myself and laughing I jumped off the cliff and dove into the water below. Taking strong sure strokes I swam down to the bottom of the lake before surfacing. Breaking the water I became away again of the sounds of birds and animals moving in the bush that I had blocked out before. The silence of being under water seemed to amplify sound upon re-surfacing as if the volume had been turned right up.
I swam to the edge and pulled myself out allowing myself to lie on my back on one of the rocks in the sun. I figured he would get more whinny if I started walking off again and a whinny male was the last thing I wanted and besides the sun was nice on my skin. I removed the lab coat to reveal a black mid-drift tank top with white skull and cross bones on the front before laying back down again the coat was kind of restricting.
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« Reply #6 on Aug 25, 2008, 9:43pm » | |
Joey felt mildly rejected when the young woman didn’t answer his question but continued to march on ahead. He watched her footwork as she walked, how controlled and precise it looked. Either she grew up in the country, or judging from the coat she was some sort of scientist or something. But why would a scientist walk through bush land? They belonged in a lab, not in a field. Maybe she was something else.
He only just managed to hear her say “snake hole” before he half tripped half hopped over it, he looked down at the deep hole for a second before pushing aside the prickly long stems of a black-boy bush and catching up once more.
He was probably just as fascinated with all this as she was, but looking around he found it all a little hard to take in. He lived in Brooklyn. Not...Australia, was it? Well he knew he was somewhere near the Equator, this place was hot!
“Come on. Can ya wait up, please? I’d rather feel like I’m walkin’ beside you rather than stalkin’ you or somethin’ like dat.” he asked, stepping over a few more plants, trying to mimic her steps so as not to make such a commotion. He noticed her steps became more fast paced as they approached a small bend in the river. Still ‘ouching’ and ‘ahhing’ over some of the plants that popped up here and there, he finally caught up to the woman, and his breath caught in his throat at the sight underneath them.
The river continued to flow into what looked like a decent-sized lake at the bottom of the small cliff that they where standing on. The water sparkled like crystals, the heat from the sun above him making him all the more thirsty but he still swallowed a dry lump in his throat at the sight of it. After what only seemed like a couple of seconds the woman jumped from the small cliff and dove into the pool, leaving him to watched as she surfaced and started swimming as if she where born into the water.
He carefully stepped to the edge of the small cliff and grabbed a branch to a dying gum tree hanging a little way over the water. A few of it’s branches had broken and now acted as a type of ladder. Grabbing hold of one of the branches he slowly made his way down to the waters edge. Treading carefully on the slippery rocks caked with mud underneath his feet. He found some shallower water near the over turned tree branches and crouched into a leaning position, cupping some of the water and giving it a small taste. He liked his dry lips a moment and smiled at the taste. Cupping a larger handful he took a few more drinks until his thirst was quenched. Then standing up, he took of his shirt, tossing it to a dry spot on a large rock behind him, and then placed everything in his pockets onto the shirt, folding it over so that the sun wouldn’t harm them. He then rolled up the pants’ legs of his jeans and took a few hesitant steps into the water, getting in just deep enough so that his calf got wet and he could splash some of the water in his hair, on his arms and down his back. He had no intention of getting any deeper than that.
Grateful for the cooling feeling that it gave him he sat, watching the water sparkle around him and tiny fish swimming a little way ahead of him. He looked around for the woman and spied her laying on the rocks about ten meters away or so. He was pretty happy to keep his distance with her if that’s what she wanted. he didn’t seem to keen on having him tagging along anyway. Well maybe if he had some clue as to where he was, who she was then he might not need to be around for much longer. There was a town down there. Maybe the people could help shed some light here.
Cupping some water, he splashed the back of his neck, and then his face, washing away some of the dry blood around his nose and lips. He waited for the water to settle before he looked into the water at his reflection. He had managed to get all the blood off at least but his nose was still a little pink looking and there was a long scratch along the base of it.
Blue eyes stared back at him as he surveyed his jaw line, and then watched droplets of water fall from the tips of his fringed deadlocks and into the water. He ruffled it up a moment to try and get some of the water out before taking another drink and stepping back to sit back at the waters edge for a moment. He pulled on his shirt, stuffed all his possessions back into his pockets before standing up again, popping the vertebrae in his neck. “Well” he said with a small sigh. “I recon I’m gonna check out the town for a bit.” he said, getting to his feet and making his way past her and down the slope. “See what I can stir up there. So, have fun.” He tried to walk semi confidently as he went by her. He noticed the wet lab coat and had to try and refuse the little voice in his head just daring him to string the water out of it onto her face and bolt for it. Maybe next time.
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« Reply #7 on Sept 2, 2008, 4:22am » | |
The sun was high in the sky and warm on my skin, I felt like a lizard soaking up the warmth as I lay there on the rock listening to the calming sounds of the bush around me. If this was a dream and I was going to wake up soon at least it was a good one, and I was warm, oh I loved to be warm. In the distance I could hear the sound of kookaburra’s laughing and smiled, kookaburra’s had always been my favorite bird because like me they were different from the others no other bird’s call sounded like laughing.
Then I could hear splashing closer to me as the male Joey slowly made his way out of the water, he was a pansy I thought to myself with a grin. Only going into the water up to his thighs anyone would think he had never gone swimming in his life truth be told he probably hadn’t I thought to myself. The sound of his crunching footsteps coming closer reverberated in my ears but I kept my eyes closed.
I heard his speaking but made no indication that I had heard him, as he was walking away I looked up and laughed.
“Name’s Abby and I wouldn’t go that way if I were you”
I said with amusement in my voice as I got up and tied the wet lab coat around my waist stepping forward I pointed down the way a bit where the lake opened into another small waterfall and into a marsh further down before more bush and then the town.
“See how it turns into a marsh? Well I’d bet a million bucks there is a few hungry crocs down there and you’d be safe sticking to the bush with its scorpions, snakes and spiders.”
It was the most I had said to him so far and I didn’t look to see his reaction I just kept staring off into the marsh and sure enough I caught sight of a croc moving on the bank and into the water as I look out.
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« Reply #8 on Sept 2, 2008, 9:07am » | |
Joey stopped mid-march when he heard the young woman speak again, and he turned to her with a mild, crooked grin on his face. He then watched her tie the coat around her waist and felt a mild disappointment. “So you do speak after all.” he spoke and his grin dropped slightly when she mentioned the marsh. “Why wouldn’t you go this way if you where me?”
He looked in the direction of the marsh as she spoke and watched as what he had thought was a log, slide into the water. He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end for a moment before he looked in marvel at the young woman. There was no way that he’d have ever really known that. What this was was some sort of Rowan Attenborough, National Geographic stuff.
“Scorpions, snakes and spiders sound pretty great to me.” he said, still staring at the ripples that the croc had disappeared under. He turned to her again. “You lead. I’ll follow.” he said, bowing slightly and making a sweeping hand motion as if moving a curtain aside for her.
From his perspective, she came off as a little shy, maybe. She was certainly very quiet. Maybe she was just a wet fish, a little snobbish or something. It didn’t matter, of course. If there really where people down in that dumpy looking town there had to be someone who’d talk back.
Looking down at the town it did look a little...well...abandoned. The houses and other buildings where pretty well intact, cept for a few broken windows, doors broken off their hinges etc and there didn’t appear to be anyone down there. Vines, trees, and other plants where overgrown everywhere. The place looked virtually deserted and suddenly he doubted his chances of meeting anyone else.
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« Reply #9 on Sept 4, 2008, 11:21pm » | |
I smiled at his question before I began my explanation and could sense his shock. It wasn’t the first time, Jeramy, one of the people I used to work with was a lot like him. When they went out to look for bodies he was clueless about the bush too and often stood there the way this Joey was, the hairs on his neck standing on end.
I shook her head with a grin when he bowed to let her lead saying he would follow and stopped turning to him for a moment.
“What happened to, I’d rather feel like I’m walkin’ beside you rather than stalkin’ you or somethin’ like dat”
I said mimicking his words from earlier perfectly, I had a skill of remembering information even the most insignificant things that most people forgot almost instantly. In my line of work it was important to take note of the little things for sometimes they were the biggest part of solving the case just look at that little book. Everyone else overlooked it but I didn’t and now I was here, how, I still didn’t know, why, I didn’t know that either but I would I was determined to find that all out sooner or later.
I started walking ahead of him again pushing back some branches and holding them back out of the way to let him pass. He didn’t seem so bad but for now I still didn’t know his deal but I could at least be amicable I decided.
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« Reply #10 on Sept 10, 2008, 1:28am » | |
“We got a comedian then, ay?” Joey grinned, glad that she at least started to seem like she was warming to him. He was by nature, a very friendly guy. He was a real people person. Hated to be alone for too long and really hated silence. Although he tried to be optimistic, he was also the sort who could turn from a gloating show-off to a mess of self doubt.
As a young boy, he remembered his mother telling him that `The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.`
If you wanted something in life, you’d have to get it yourself. Was basically what she was saying. And she was right for the most part. He supposed that’s what influenced her to do what she did in the end too.
He realised that she had started moving again and followed behind her, smiling his gratitude when she held the branches out of the way for him.
She must really think that I’m a klutz the way I walk around here. Look at her, she’s like a cat or something the way she’s moving through all of this. He hissed when another stick slapped his arm after he didn’t grab one of the branches in time.
“Well you’re a scientist huh?” He asked, side stepping through a “V” shaped tree to walk beside her again. He noticed the trees starting to thin out and they where walking at a slight downward slant.
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« Reply #11 on Sept 14, 2008, 7:59am » | |
Stifling a laugh after he managed to get himself slapped in the arm with a stick, it was so obviously there I thought and shook my head ever so slightly before pushing my hair out of my face and behind my ear. A useless act as instantly the wind picked it up and blew it across my face again soft sigh escaped my lips and she gave up with my hair it always had liked doing its own thing especially when it got wet.
The tree’s were thinning and I could see the town a bit more clearly ahead it certainty looked deserted there was no two ways about it. My mind wandered slightly but I heard his question and smiled a scientist aye.
“Well I’m a sort of scientist, I’m a forensic scientist, I can evaluate a crime scene quicker then anyone in New York and when it comes to the bush I can spot the most smallest clue. Plus I have a good sense about people, see I figured I better start being nice to you because you seem like the serial killer type when annoyed”
I said with a laugh, hearing a rustling just up ahead I put my hand up signaling him to stop and stepped forward gently before bending down and lifting a bob tailed goana up from behind one of the shrubs. Gripping him gently behind the neck I smiled as he flicked out his blue tongue he wasn’t too happy I thought.
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« Reply #12 on Sept 24, 2008, 9:07pm » | |
Joey’s eyes where averted downwards towards his shoes as he walked around bushes and over shrubs. The trees had just about thinned out by now and the town was in clear view.
It didn’t look so bad – deserted as if no one had set foot in it for several years - A little battered up and most of the places needed work here and there but at least they seemed to be all there. It made him wander how long the place had been deserted, and why.
He laughed at her comment, walking with a little more confidence over the forest floor. “That’s right I’m the most crooked and conniving crook there is. My main method of attack is I like to strangle people with my dreadlocks.” He pulled on the short hair hanging around in weird angles around his face and back of his neck. “Wow. Forensics, sweet. So you do that sort of crime scene stuff, then? My uncle – God rest him – was a cop. He was Senior Sergent or something. I don’t know. He dated a woman who was into Forensics.”
He knew that what he was saying was completely just for the sake of conversation but he really didn’t care very much. She was pleasant company, a little quiet but didn’t really seem shy. She could have a joke at least.
He felt her hand push him back a second and watched with interest when she bent down and plucked something out of the bushes. As she turned around, holding a small lizard in her hands he stepped forwards with interest at the little reptile. It was greyish in colour, with small stubby legs and a long body. What really surprised him though, was that its oval shaped head was the same shape as its rear end. “What is that thing? A rear end faced lizard?” he grinned wryly, knowing that it had been a stupid joke. He jumped a little when he watched it flick it’s blue tongue out.
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