To the Rescue!

Vail felt her tail lash out in irritation behind her, watching with fear at the assault on her manatees. Ra wasn’t fast enough for her, and Velvette started looking for a closer vantage while she calculated her option. She narrowed her eyes, squinting through the glare on the water. In this part of the tree many of the massive tree’s branches dipped close and into the saltwater. Maybe she and Ramesh would be able to navigate the branches while alternating attacks. They didn’t have to kill it, but it had to go.

Just before she attempted the leap Ramesh’s voice was in her ear. Like most of the Songa he had arrived practically in silence. Velvette brought her brilliant colored eyes up to meet his as he looked down from the branch above. She narrowed her gaze, was that dirt in his claws? What had he been doing on the ground? She didn’t spare much more thought to his obviously perturbed attitude.

She bristled at the nickname, he really was upset at her for some reason. She put her eyes back to the water, unable to deal with his hurt fee-fees right now. He seemed to sense her urgency as he looked to the creature in the water. ”A crocodile. It’s going to kill the calves.” She tried to keep her fear for them from her voice but didn’t think she succeeded. She had managed to keep from asking for his help. ”I thought about it while I waited for you,” Ve had to get him for taking so long somewhere. ”If we hit it and retreat back up the branches we might be able to drive it off.”