Post by Xiaobei on Sept 5, 2021 8:07:15 GMT -8
Streets, Xiaobei had found, were not very fun. Even though they went all in one direction like humongous ribbons they were always full of zooming cars and slow-moving humans. Racing cars wasn't very fun either when they kept stopping every time there was a bright light hanging in the sky. She thought maybe the bigger ones would be braver but those stopped too, even more often than the cars, and they kept disgorging humans like they were confused as to how to swallow.
All this running made her hungry and Xiaobei remembered why she'd come here in the first place.
Biting a hole in space was pretty hard. You had to gnash your fangs just so or else they wouldn't catch on anything and you'd just have a mouthful of air. Snapping at the sky was pretty fun because her teeth made a clacking noise each time. The growling was just because it seemed like the thing to do.
After biting space for real, though, Xiaobei had shaken her head all good and strong and ripped a bit of sky free from the rest. Peering through, she saw the big red cars and black ribbon roads and jumped before she could assess whether food was nearby.
The desire to chase had followed and that was how Xiaobei ended up here -- in some green space, with all these metal rocks, and a big pool of water. She hadn't ever seen so much water in one place and the splashes it made as she jumped around were exciting enough that Xiaobei forgot what she was doing again.
Until that noise.
It was weird. The little birds that paddled along the surface of the water kept opening their beaks and instead of roaring, they made this squeaking noise. Hardly a scary challenge. They seemed too tiny to put up much of a fight anyway, but they kept moving closer and quacking. Even her best growl didn't phase them.
Feathers were pretty gross, and they got stuck in her fangs, but snapping at birds was kind of like biting the air only there was more of a crunch at the end. These birds were really slow - they never realized Xiaobei was biting all their friends, even if she bit the one right next to them!
Sitting back on her haunches, Xiaobei wiped feathers from her mouth. Her eyes narrowed. There were a lot of birds. All of them quacking at her in an audacious challenge. They didn't fill her up any at all but since she was here she might as well play.
With a chittering noise, Xiaobei slunk low to the ground, stealthily sloshing through the water as she stalked her prey.
All this running made her hungry and Xiaobei remembered why she'd come here in the first place.
Biting a hole in space was pretty hard. You had to gnash your fangs just so or else they wouldn't catch on anything and you'd just have a mouthful of air. Snapping at the sky was pretty fun because her teeth made a clacking noise each time. The growling was just because it seemed like the thing to do.
After biting space for real, though, Xiaobei had shaken her head all good and strong and ripped a bit of sky free from the rest. Peering through, she saw the big red cars and black ribbon roads and jumped before she could assess whether food was nearby.
The desire to chase had followed and that was how Xiaobei ended up here -- in some green space, with all these metal rocks, and a big pool of water. She hadn't ever seen so much water in one place and the splashes it made as she jumped around were exciting enough that Xiaobei forgot what she was doing again.
Until that noise.
It was weird. The little birds that paddled along the surface of the water kept opening their beaks and instead of roaring, they made this squeaking noise. Hardly a scary challenge. They seemed too tiny to put up much of a fight anyway, but they kept moving closer and quacking. Even her best growl didn't phase them.
Feathers were pretty gross, and they got stuck in her fangs, but snapping at birds was kind of like biting the air only there was more of a crunch at the end. These birds were really slow - they never realized Xiaobei was biting all their friends, even if she bit the one right next to them!
Sitting back on her haunches, Xiaobei wiped feathers from her mouth. Her eyes narrowed. There were a lot of birds. All of them quacking at her in an audacious challenge. They didn't fill her up any at all but since she was here she might as well play.
With a chittering noise, Xiaobei slunk low to the ground, stealthily sloshing through the water as she stalked her prey.