Friday Mythical Creature of the Day - Shojo

Mai watched through the window of her bar as that loathsome little chipmunk met with the hedgehog in the street. The hedgehog had a jar of what looked like peanut butter held in place between its quills, because it was an idiot.

On Friday, the two of them would come with their Temperance Group and perform carols outside her establishment. It was on those days that she most regretted having moved here from Villageburg.

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Animal of the Day - Annelid

Lil' Dell followed the map back up the stairs through the stacks, and to the lockbox hidden in the hollowed out dictionary which held the key.

Marta was inside, having curled her way around the key and fallen asleep some time ago. Although not technically am employee of the library, her presence made a good deterrent for key thievery.

"Marta," he squawked. "Where does the key go? Where is the Records Vault?"

"That's you," she squeaked, "you do your fancy squawking when squeaking will do just fine. Just fine!"

"Where is it," he asked again, squeaking, undeterred.

"Most of that stuff was sent to offsite deep storage to make room for the pool table. Ask Uriel, he'll know what you're looking for. He's just went to the store to buy some peanut butter for the Troll."

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Animal of the Day - Siskiyou Chipmunk

Uriel sent Lil' Dell down into the Archives, where he was to find the map which would give him the directions which would give him the key to the Records Vault.


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Animal of the Day- Rook

Uriel passed through the stacks and into his office, where he found the key to the archives under his constantly vanishing snowball collection.

He shared the space with Mitchell the Rook, who watched and said nothing. He was tired explaining to Uriel that he was a hedgehog, not a Troll. And thus should not be bad about failing to conform to Trollish standards of beauty.

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Animal of the Day - European Hedgehog

Erick found his assistant Uriel rooting about in the self-help section of the dingy library.

"You're wasting your time," said the Troll. "Nothing can change your ugly face. Now go see what you can find about this Forgotten Island. And after that, fetch me a snack. Something sweet, but something salty for after that. Maybe peanut butter? I don't know. I don't know these things."


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Friday Mythical Creature of the Day - Troll

Although Erick had little use for anything and anyone, he was always intrigued by a good mystery. And so, when Leonardo came to him to ask about the history of Forgotten Island, it seemed as good an excuse as any to dive into his archives and begin to research.

What fun! And a good reason to see the bird out.


(Photo Credit: http://www.horrorphile.net/images/cats-eye-troll1.jpg, which took it from that movie Cat's Eye which everyone forgets but I remember because it gave me nightmares as a child)

Animal of the Day - Cuckoo Roller

Leonardo went human-watching over the Forgotten Island and found himself remembering something... Didn't there used to be a town there? And weren't there parties in the summer?

Oh, but that was a long time and many molts ago. Such things were no longer important.

And yet, it nagged him...


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