|| Did you say...Dinosaurs? || ~~Private for Gir~~

DINOTOPIA

A Land Apart From Time

Gir and Piggy IT IS READY!

If you want! ^^ I just did one for Adam out of personal habit XD

Well, we could begin with Ayo just starting to wake up after having passed out on the beach, sometime after the dolphins rescued her from her wreck during the storm. If you look at the map, she'll have washed up near the Hatchery, where Adam will be. While that's happening, I pictured Adam would be out in the woods gathering herbs, fruits, and berries with Boris, and while they were busy foraging would bump into Ayo as she tries to find her way and make sense of her surroundings.

Alright, sounds good to me!!

The sun was shining faintly through the leaves of the deciduous trees all around mme as I picked through the ferns growing from the forest floor, eyes roaming about the foliage intently. Brushing aside the fronds of a cycad plant, I smirked as I found what I was looking for: a clump of basil herbs growing safe in secluded in the shelter of their larger neighbors. I wasted no time in plucking them from the soil and dropping them into the woven basket that hung from my right forearm. Not even the sounds of Boris' huffing and heavy breathing as he ambled over to my side distracted me; however, the jutted plates served to become somewhat of an annoyance as they pressed against the side of my head while I was knelt down. "Boris, good friend," I said politely. "I always treasure your company, but could you perhaps ease off my poor skull a bit, please? I don't wish to come home with chronic headaches for two days again."

"I cannot help my knobbiness," the Ankylosaurus grumbled, but nevertheless he stepped aside in order to give me more breathing room, standing patiently until I gathered enough to fill my basket, and tied it securely against his armored back, along with the other herb baskets we had filled earlier. "I think that is all. Shall we head home for the night?" I asked, a question to which Boris nodded his bony head in agreement. The sun was setting, and darkness would arrive soon, and it was best that we got home to the Hatchery before my folks got worried.

All good! Go get some sleep!

//Ah crap, I forgot to mention! There are only a few dinosaurs (not including Boris) that can actually "mimic" human speech. The others who don't have quite as dexterous tongues tend to speak in their traditional saurian language that only Dinotopian humans can understand. For example. with Boris, because he's a heavy creature, his "speech" would come out as a series of deep breaths, groans, and honks. (Sorry for the intense brain feed XD)

Boris and I were treading along the path back home to the Hatchery when my club-tailed friend paused abruptly, and shifted his gaze off the trail. Almost as if he'd heard something. "What is it?" I asked, puzzled as I looked in the direction he was staring in. "I thought I heard someone shaking the bushes," the Ankylosaurus answered, and with the directness customary of his saurian kind plodded off the trail and into the foliage in the direction of the supposed source, his huge body pushing aside the fronds and branches and leaving a path for me to follow him through in his wake. Frankly, I didn't hear anything, but dinosaur ears were far better than humans, however, I was little worried about what Mother would say if we came home late because we got distracted. But Boris was going to investigate no matter what, and I wasn't going to leave him by himself any time soon, so I stuck with him, even if I was completely lost as to what he had heard.

//So I can tell LOL

I should point out here that in terms of surprises, Boris and I don't get very many of them. Indeed, much of our day to day life is very routine and offers little in terms of excitement, which is great, really! I'm not saying that it isn't nice or anything. I love the peaceful life very much. Just...not as much as Boris. He's perfectly content with the ground-bound existence and taking life as it comes by - that is, quiet and calm. Me? Not so much. But I digress, that's a topic for later.

Coming back to my original statement, it was a surprise for both of us when we suddenly came across a girl - a very disoriented, bruised, and obviously washed up girl, whom when she first caught sight of us immediately stumbled backwards. Boris, likewise, honked in surprise and shifted backwards as well, nearly knocking me down in the process as I was right behind him. Placing a reassuring hand upon his bony armor, I looked toward the girl, eyes widened with curiosity, and slight concern for her state. "E-Excuse me? Are you alright?"

My brows furrowed slightly in confusion at the girl's words, and Boris and I exchanged puzzled look. "Boris is real, yes," I answered. "Why wouldn't he be?" She acted like she'd never seen a dinosaur before. Then it occurred to me - well, occurred to Boris first, since he was better at catching on to such things - that this girl wasn't from around here, if her mannerism and battered apparel wasn't apparent. "She must be a Dolphinback," Boris said aside to me in the saurian tongue , lumbering forward to sniff the girl carefully, sneezing when the sea salt and sand from her body filtered into his nostrils. "Dolphinback, alright," he wheezed, and his shell shook as he sneezed again, and he turned his head into the bushes out of politeness so he wasn't sneezing on the poor girl.

I, myself, was stunned. I'd never met a Dolphinback before. None that were alive, anyways. Their descendants, were what made up the entirety of the human population of Dinotopia, but it all happened over thousands upon thousands of years that no one really remembered them, save for their inscribed names on the welcome scroll in Waterfall City, which was miles away. So a new Dolphinback on the island was definitely an occasion.

I realized then I probably had a very silly look from staring at the girl, and clearing my throat introduced myself. "I'm Adam. My friend sneezing in the ferns is Boris (I probably already said that, sorry). What's your name?"

Poor thing, she's a mess, I thought sympathetically, her stuttering very apparent in my ears, and the fact that she looked like she was about to fall over was enough to garner worry as well. The cuts and bruises that littered her body also looked in need of tending to as well, which made me extremely glad that Boris and I had gone out gathering herbs. Some basil and lavender would help with the wounds, but first, we needed to get back to the Hatchery. "This way," I told the girl, pointing over my shoulder back the way we had come. "We were about to head back home, and I'm sure Mother can get a bed ready for you quickly. But we'd better get you off your feet," I said, gesturing toward her shaky stance. "You look ready to pass out."

Boris pulled his head out of the ferns at that moment and rejoined, snorting to get rid of the last of the unwanted particles in his nose. "I can carry her," he said to me, laying down his bulk upon the ground with a thud, the baskets tied to his sides shaking slightly with the motion. Knowing that Ayodele couldn't understand the ankylosaur, I translated for him, making it clear that she was to climb aboard. "Just watch his spikes, and be careful of the baskets," I warned as she did so. "We just went herb-hunting, and what we've got should help with those cuts. You ready, Boris?" My friend huffed in affirmation, before pushing himself back onto his feet with a heavy groan, barely even noticing the new weight on his back.